Chelsea rule out January transfer move for highly-rated 20-goal forward

Chelsea dismiss making a bid for Sporting CP striker Viktor Gyokeres

Evening Standard reveals Chelsea have dismissed rumours regarding making a bid for Sporting CP striker Viktor Gyokeres after a report revealed the West Londoners have submitted an offer of around £73 million flor the player’s services.

The report also mentioned that the Portuguese club denied the offer and is standing firm on the Swedish striker’s asking price, which is around £87 million. However, that appears to be just hearsay for now.

Those reports have been said to be untrue, as Chelsea have not proposed any offer for Gyokeres, who has scored 20 goals this season across all competitions. Had the Blues known he would transform into an elite striker, they would have signed him when he was at Coventry City where he had a comparatively modest budget of £20 million last summer.

But the Sporting CP striker isn’t on the Blues’ list of strikers to sign for now. Brentford’s Ivan Toney and Brighton’s Evan Ferguson, Stuttgart’s Serhou Guirassy, Feyenoord Rotterdam’s Santiago Gimenez, and RB Leipzig’s Benjamin Sesko are among the centre-forwards the Blues are currently looking to sign.

Meanwhile, Victor Osimhen is a top target for the club, and a move might be possible next summer. It is also uncertain if Chelsea will sign forward in the January transfer window after Nicolas Jackson has gone to the African Cup of Nations and Christopher Nkunku is once again injured.

Chelsea so far have looked quiet in the winter window, and there isn’t any sort of news that the club is getting the deal done for any forward. So it looks unlikely that they will sign, and we are already nearing the end of January.

Chelsea have not made any bid for Viktor Gyokeres. (Photo by PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA/AFP via Getty Images)

With 20 goals, Gyokeres is an explosive striker and has a good experience despite his age, but will he be a good match for us? being aware that signing a centre-forward who consistently fails is our misfortune. Though we have signed a lot of big strikers, very few of them have had a significant impact.

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Previous signings were massive flops, so Chelsea will have to evaluate their options and land a forward who will have all sorts of qualities to break our No. 9 curse.

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