{"id":2689,"date":"2026-04-30T18:33:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T18:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=2689"},"modified":"2026-04-30T18:33:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T18:33:23","slug":"chelsea-urged-to-make-shock-offer-to-sign-outstanding-43m-man-city-star-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=2689","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea urged to make shock offer to sign &#8216;outstanding&#8217; \u00a343m Man City star | Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"646\" height=\"431\" src=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-1243866616.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=646\" class=\"article-image wp-image-28164835\" alt=\"UEFA Champions League 2022\/23 Group Stage Teams Jerseys Shoot\" decoding=\"sync\"\/>\t<\/div><figcaption>Chelea have endured another topsy-turvy season (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Former Chelsea midfielder Jody Morris believes the Blues should plot a summer move for departing Manchester City star Bernardo Silva.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea have endured another turbulent season under BlueCo\u2019s ownership, and now look poised to miss out on Champions League football after a run of five straight Premier League defeats.<\/p>\n<p>The west London club have made it through to the FA Cup final, but the sackings of both Enzo Maresca and his replacement, Liam Rosenior, have left the club in a state of limbo heading into the summer.<\/p>\n<p>Morris urged the club to depart from their aggressive youth-first transfer policy this summer to provide the new incoming boss with some much-needed experience in his squad.<\/p>\n<p>And the former Blues midfielder namechecked Silva as an ideal signing, with the Portuguese international set to leave City on a free transfer this summer, nine seasons after joining from Monaco for \u00a343million.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I\u2019m not sure that we\u2019ll be able to become title contenders next season no matter what we do, to be honest,\u2019 Morris said. \u2018I think we\u2019re so far off it. <\/p>\n<p>\u2018I think that bringing in some real quality characters and experience will certainly help the players that are good enough to be at Chelsea and the players that are maybe just underperforming and have the potential to go on and be better than what they are at the moment.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img width=\"646\" height=\"431\" src=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-2272624354.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=646\" class=\"article-image wp-image-28165601\" alt=\"Manchester City v Southampton - Emirates FA Cup Semi Final\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>\t<\/div><figcaption>Bernardo Silva is set to leave Manchester City this summer (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u2018I think there are certain players at the football club that I don\u2019t think it would matter who you bring in, I\u2019m not sure that they\u2019re going to improve too much. I think those are the ones that maybe you need to move on. <\/p>\n<p>\u2018But certainly bringing in people like Bernardo Silva would be good, his performance the other day was absolutely outstanding.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018That\u2019s all we\u2019ve seen for nine years at Manchester City: Someone who is not big in stature, you wouldn\u2019t necessarily say he\u2019s physically unbelievable apart from the distance he covers, but he plays with pure intelligence, is brave as you like, is a great character and he\u2019s always available and turns up in big games. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img width=\"646\" height=\"460\" src=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-1195610787.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=646\" class=\"article-image wp-image-28165624\" alt=\"Tottenham Hotspur v Chelsea FC - Premier League\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>\t<\/div><figcaption>Jody Morris urged Chelsea to sign some experienced players this summer (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u2018So would I look at Bernardo Silva? Absolutely.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>But Morris also expressed his doubt that Silva would be keen on a move to Stamford Bridge, and said the club\u2019s lack of high-profile leaders may discourage other experienced players from joining.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to FindSisterSites, he added: \u2018But if I was Bernardo Silva, I wouldn\u2019t be looking anywhere near Chelsea though, and that\u2019s coming from a massive Chelsea fan.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I think that\u2019s where a problem lies. We aren\u2019t qualifying for the Champions League and if you\u2019re an experienced player, you want to see other experienced players coming through the door. <\/p>\n<p>\u2018So whether there\u2019s a domino effect, whoever the first person through the door is will have to be a brave person because if you don\u2019t get Champions League football then I\u2019m not sure many will be following.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea return to action on Monday when they host Nottingham Forest at Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>For more stories like this,\u00a0check our sport page<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Follow Metro Sport for the latest news on <meta charset=\"utf-8\"\/><br \/>\n<strong>Facebook, <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Metro_Sport\">Twitter<\/a> and\u00a0Instagram<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"metro-more-link\"><svg><title>Arrow<\/title>\n<use xlink:href=\"#common-right-arrow\" href=\"#common-right-arrow\"\/><\/svg><span class=\"mor-link\" data-track-module=\"mor-link_article\">MORE: Man Utd hope two key signings can convince Bruno Fernandes to stay at Old Trafford<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"metro-more-link\"><svg><title>Arrow<\/title>\n<use xlink:href=\"#common-right-arrow\" href=\"#common-right-arrow\"\/><\/svg><span class=\"mor-link\" data-track-module=\"mor-link_article\">MORE: Gary Neville names three \u2018dream\u2019 and \u2018realistic\u2019 signings for Man Utd<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"metro-more-link\"><svg><title>Arrow<\/title>\n<use xlink:href=\"#common-right-arrow\" href=\"#common-right-arrow\"\/><\/svg><span class=\"mor-link\" data-track-module=\"mor-link_article\">MORE: \u2018No-brainer\u2019 \u2013 Man Utd urged to make stunning transfer bid for \u00a3107m Chelsea star<\/span><\/p>\n<section id=\"share-buttons-bottom\" class=\"share-buttons share-buttons-bottom\">\n\t\t\t<span><svg><title>Comment now<\/title>\n<use xlink:href=\"#social-comment\" href=\"#social-comment\"\/><\/svg><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"share-bar-comments__label\">Comments<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span><svg><title>Add Metro as a Preferred Source on Google<\/title>\n<use xlink:href=\"#social-preferred-source\" href=\"#social-preferred-source\"\/><\/svg><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"share-bar-preferred-source__label\">Add as preferred source<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/section>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelea have endured another topsy-turvy season (Picture: Getty) Former Chelsea midfielder Jody Morris believes the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2689","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\/2689","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=2689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}