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Chelsea are eyeing up a move for a former Manchester United star to replace Marc Cucurella.<\/strong><\/p>\n Ever since Xabi Alonso was confirmed as Chelsea’s new manager, the London club have been busy in the transfer market as they look to build a brand-new team.<\/p>\n Without a doubt Chelsea’s biggest deal of the summer so far has been their British record breaking deal for England star Morgan Rogers, who signed a massive seven-year deal following his \u00a3117million move. <\/p>\n In the coming days, Cheslea are expected to make another major signing with France international Maxence Lacroix joining from London rivals Crystal Palace for a fee in the region of \u00a351m.<\/p>\n But it’s not just incomings that Chelsea have been working on this summer, with Andrey Santos, Tyrique George, Alejandro Garnacho and Cucurella all departing.<\/p>\n Of the four, Cucurella’s departure is undoubtedly the most significant, with the defender securing a massive move to Real Madrid for a fee believed to be \u00a347.5m plus \u00a34.3m in add-ons.<\/p>\n Cucurella played a massive role in Chelsea’s successes in recent seasons and will therefore is a big loss, but it appears Alonso may have already picked his dream replacement.<\/p>\n According to Spanish newspaper Mundo Deportivo, Chelsea have a growing interest in Alvaro Carreras, who could join from Real Madrid in what would essentially be a swap for Cucurella.<\/p>\n The former Manchester United reserve reportedly has an uncertain future at Real Madrid despite joining just last year in a \u00a343m deal from Benfica.<\/p>\n As it stands, Real Madrid already boast a full squad of 25 players and therefore must allow some to leave the club or risk being forced to leave some out of their official squad list next season.<\/p>\n Given Carreras relationship with Alonso during the Chelsea boss’s spell as Real Madrid manager last season, the move would make perfect sense for both parties.<\/p>\n The 23-year-old held down a starting place under Alonso, eventually losing it to Fran Garcia following Alonso’s dismissal and the subsequent arrival of Alvaro Arbeloa as his successor.<\/p>\n With Cucurella now a Real Madrid player, it seems certain that Carreras cannot regain a starting place at the Bernabeu and is therefore believed to be open to the move.<\/p>\n READ MORE: <\/strong>Cristiano Ronaldo aiming to use new ‘authority’ to lure Premier League captain to Al-Nassr<\/strong><\/p>\n Carreras’ departure would also make sense for Real Madrid from a financial point of view after it was confirmed that the Spanish side have completed a deal for the in-demand Yan Diomande.<\/p>\n The Ivorian winger has attracted interest from both Liverpool and Paris Saint-Germain this summer, but has ultimately agreed a move to Madrid.<\/p>\n According to transfer guru Fabrizio Romano, an agreement with RB Leipzig has been reached that will see the 19-year-old go for a fee over \u20ac100m (\u00a385m).<\/p>\n Diomande will reportedly fly to Madrid this week to complete all of the releavnt medical tests before signing a five-year deal keeping him at the club until June 2031.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chelsea are eyeing up a move for a former Manchester United star to replace Marc…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21722","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\/21722","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=21722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Real Madrid secure next galactico signing as PSG pull out of race<\/h2>\n