Chelsea are understood to be on alert for the possible transfer of Arsenal attacking midfielder Ethan Nwaneri as his situation at the Emirates Stadium as changed.<\/strong><\/p>\n The highly-rated 19-year-old was not initially loaned out to Marseille to be put in the shop window, but Arsenal could now be open to letting him go for the right price this summer, as first reported here for the Daily Briefing.<\/p>\n DOWNLOAD THE OFFICIAL CAUGHTOFFSIDE APP FOR ALL THE LATEST & BREAKING UPDATES \u2013 STRAIGHT TO YOUR PHONE! ON APPLE<\/u><\/span> & GOOGLE PLAY<\/u><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Chelsea are one of the clubs with a long term appreciation of Nwaneri, and they could revisit this deal if he does indeed end up moving on from Arsenal at the end of this campaign.<\/p>\n For now, it\u2019s not clear that Nwaneri himself is pushing to leave, but there may perhaps be concerns with his development after murmurings of attitude problems at Marseille training.<\/p>\n As well as Chelsea, sources have named Borussia Dortmund, Juventus, and AC Milan as clubs keeping an eye on Nwaneri\u2019s situation, while at least three other Premier League teams are also monitoring developments.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Arsenal could be tempted to cash in on Nwaneri for around \u00a335-40m, with the sale to count as \u2018pure profit\u2019 from a PSR perspective due to the fact that the England Under-21 international came up through the Gunners\u2019 academy.<\/p>\n \u201cNwaneri is struggling right now and that means Arsenal are going to have to consider a sale,\u201d one source said. \u201cThings can change quickly, but he clearly isn\u2019t progressing as expected, and they\u2019ll feel they can get a decent fee for him.<\/p>\n Want more CaughtOffside coverage? Add us as a <\/i><\/b>preferred source on Google<\/span><\/i><\/b> to your favourites list for news you can trust<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n \u201c<\/span>Chelsea have tried signing him before. They\u2019re still keeping an eye on how this develops, as are Dortmund, Juventus, and Milan. Many top clubs in England and Europe still see him as a fantastic talent, and he might benefit from a fresh start.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Chelsea haven\u2019t got a lot right in the transfer market in recent times, but their policy of recruiting top young players has occasionally gone well for them.<\/p>\n Joao Pedro has been a big hit since joining from Brighton, while Cole Palmer was in a similar situation at Manchester City to Nwaneri\u2019s at Arsenal now when he moved to Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n \t\t\t
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Using our Transfer Fit rating system, we score Nwaneri to Chelsea 16\/25 \u2013 a promising young player in a position they need, who wouldn\u2019t cost a fortune, but who also isn\u2019t in the best form right now.<\/p>\n Arsenal might be wary of selling a top prospect like Nwaneri to a rival, but it currently seems unlikely that he\u2019s going to become a key first-team player in Mikel Arteta\u2019s squad.<\/p>\n These two London rivals have also done business plenty of times before, with big names like Kai Havertz, Jorginho, Noni Madueke, and Kepa Arrizabalaga all moving from Chelsea to Arsenal in the last few years.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chelsea are understood to be on alert for the possible transfer of Arsenal attacking midfielder…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6429","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\/6429","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=6429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What sources are saying about Ethan Nwaneri transfer<\/h2>\n
Could Ethan Nwaneri be the right signing for Chelsea?<\/h2>\n
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