Chelsea are in talks with Brighton about a potential deal to sign veteran striker Danny Welbeck.<\/strong><\/p>\n The 35-year-old is keen to join the Blues and it appears an agreement between the clubs is close.<\/p>\n Welbeck scored 13 goals for Brighton last season and has established himself as a key player for the Seagulls since joining them in 2020.<\/p>\n He moved to Arsenal from Manchester United in 2014 and was with the Gunners for five years before a one-year spell at Watford.<\/p>\n Welbeck could now return to the capital, where he will add vast experience to Chelsea\u2019s attacking options if a deal with Brighton can be thrashed out.<\/p>\n He has a year left on his contract, having signed an extension with the south-coast club in March, but it is understood that Brighton are not minded to stand in his way.<\/p>\n Chelsea look set to revamp their options up front this summer, with doubts over the futures of Liam Delap, Nicolas Jackson, Emmanuel Emegha and Marc Guiu.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, new Chelsea head coach Xabi Alonso says he has a plan for playing Cole Palmer and new signing Morgan Rogers together. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n And there is speculation over the future of Pedro Neto, with Manchester City among clubs reported to be interested in the winger. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Get the latest direct to your phone \u2013 follow West London Sport\u2019s WhatsApp channel<\/strong><\/p>\n Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n <\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chelsea are in talks with Brighton about a potential deal to sign veteran striker Danny…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22221","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\/22221","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=22221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"WhatsApp\"\/](\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/6\/6b\/WhatsApp.svg\")
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