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Chelsea are reportedly prioritising signing Brentford striker Igor Thiago, as per TEAMtalk<\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n After letting Ivan Toney leave, the Bees decided to reinforce the centre-forward position by purchasing the Brazilian from Club Brugge a couple of years ago.<\/p>\n However, the 24-year-old was unable to make a significant impact during his debut campaign for the club due to a serious knee injury, making only one Premier League start.<\/p>\n This season, he has showcased his productivity, scoring 25 goals and registering a solitary assist in 39 appearances across all competitions. Moreover, he has been helping his side push for a European place finish in the Premier League.<\/p>\n Thiago\u2019s recent promising performances were rewarded with a call-up to the Brazilian national team by Carlo Ancelotti during the March international break. He could even be named in the Samba squad for this summer\u2019s World Cup.<\/p>\n Now, TEAMtalk<\/em> claim that having endured a dire campaign this term, Chelsea are set to begin a new rebuild under Xabi Alonso, with the Spanish boss expected to be given significant power to reshape the squad this summer.<\/p>\n The Blues are planning to reinforce the centre-forward position, as although Jo\u00e3o Pedro has displayed promising performances this season, Liam Delap and Marc Guiu don\u2019t have the necessary qualities to help the club achieve their lofty ambitions.<\/p>\n Nicolas Jackson, who has spent the season on loan at Bayern Munich, is still on Chelsea\u2019s books, but they don\u2019t trust him.<\/p>\n After being impressed by Thiago\u2019s recent promising performances, Chelsea are prioritising signing him and could make a concrete approach during the offseason.<\/p>\n Brentford usually play hardball to sell their big assets, and they have no intention of letting Thiago leave for cheap with his existing deal set to run until 2031.<\/p>\n The Bees have slapped a whopping \u00a390m price tag on his head, and Chelsea are prepared to seal the deal by matching the asking price.<\/p>\n Thiago, standing at 6ft 3in tall, is quick, strong, good in the air, efficient in taking penalties, possesses the poacher instinct inside the box, and also works hard without possession.<\/p>\n He is still very young and has proven his worth in the Premier League. So, Thiago might be a shrewd acquisition for Chelsea should they purchase him.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chelsea are reportedly prioritising signing Brentford striker Igor Thiago, as per TEAMtalk. After letting Ivan…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Rememore](\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/FootballTalk_New_Chapter-rememore.png\")
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