Chelsea are close to signing Shim Mheuka to a new contract, after which he will be sent on loan to get senior experience.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
If you enjoy CaughtOffside coverage and want to see more of it, add us as a preferred source on Google to make us a favourite and see more of our content.<\/em><\/p>\n Chelsea are hoping to agree a new contract for star young striker Shim Mheuka, according to an exclusive from Football.London which was published last night.<\/p>\n The 18 year old is into the last year of his current deal, so signing him onto a long term deal is a priority. Then the club will look to find a loan deal for the forward, who has scored at a preposterous rate at youth level, as the latest product of Chelsea\u2019s impressive academy production line of talent.<\/p>\n That was the pattern we saw with Jesse Derry, another Chelsea youth star from last year, who has now signed a long contract and gone to Sporting in Portugal on loan.<\/p>\n Mheuka will have no shortage of suitors both in England and abroad. The piece claims there has been a \u201cbreakthrough\u201d in talks recently which means a deal is close after long months of negotiation; and that there are \u201cnumerous clubs\u201d from Europe\u2019s top five leagues and the EFL who are interested in the number 9.<\/p>\n \t\t\t
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Benfica are closing in on a loan deal for Jhon Duran which could see the Colombian striker move to Lisbon on a permanent deal.<\/p>\n Manchester City are pushing hard to sign Lille\u2019s star teenage midfielder Ayyoub Bouaddi, and the latest reports look pretty positive for Enzo Maresca\u2019s team.<\/p>\n DOWNLOAD THE OFFICIAL CAUGHTOFFSIDE APP FOR ALL THE LATEST UPDATES \u2013 STRAIGHT TO YOUR PHONE! ON THE APP STORE<\/strong><\/p>\n \t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chelsea are close to signing Shim Mheuka to a new contract, after which he will…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18459","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\/18459","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=18459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Mheuka ready for new deal and fresh start on loan<\/h2>\n
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