I don’t believe that bid is real, but don’t underestimate how stupid Chelsea could be. They seem to have massive Big Club Syndrome going on and maybe their ego simply won’t let them miss out on a target. United the same, paying the best part of 100m for a lad from the Eredivisie because their ego won’t let them walk away. We’ve even seen it ourselves when we ended up paying way, way over the odds for Sigurdsson because we couldn’t let go of a target.
It’s the deal we should be asking for, and seeing the way certain clubs are getting rinsed you never know.
Also they’ve let their £100m+ striker this summer go out on loan just because he was a bit of a knob. If they’re happy to get rid of a player like Lukaku who they invested so much in then really they’d have no problem getting rid of 2 young players that they probably aren’t all that fussed about to begin with.
I know it’s a new ownership but Chelsea haven’t given a crap about their young players for about 20 years, James and Mount are the only 2 to have come through and stayed there and funnily enough that was mostly because Lampard was there and they had a transfer ban. They’re both very good, James especially, but when you look at the likes of Tomori and Abraham going out a few years ago and becoming 2 of Serie A’s best players Chelsea were happy to just throw endless money at a problem, which they can do.
Gallagher and Broja might come here and become very good PL players but not reach their full potential, they’d still not be good enough for Chelsea but we’d benefit greatly still, on the flip side Gordon might go there and flop and they couldn’t care less because they’ll just buy someone else. Obviously the opposites could be true but that’s just the difference in the clubs, Chelsea can make deals like this and it doesn’t really matter, whereas we spent £25m on Gbamin for example a few years ago and we’re still suffering from it.