Chelsea have contacted Leicester City for around £30million Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall

As reported by The Athletic’s David Ornstein, Chelsea have contacted Leicester City expressing their interest in signing Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall this summer.

The 25-year-old has been with the Foxes since the age of eight, making 129 senior appearances for his boyhood club, 49 of which came last season, scoring 12 goals and providing 14 assists, a key figure in as his team won the EFL Championship title. , ensuring an immediate return to the Premier League.

His contract expires in 2027, having signed a five-year deal two summers ago, and Ornstein continues to claim Chelsea are the only interested club Dewsbury-Hall would be willing to join should he leave the East Midlands .

In January, Brighton & Hove Albion had a bid rejected for Dewsbury-Hall, while a piece by Mike McGrath, Sam Dean and John Percy in the Telegraph claims new Seagulls boss Fabian Hürzeler wants them rekindle interest.

Leicester City under pressure to sell

As reported by Luke Bosher and Matt Slater at the Athletic, Leicester City are in danger of starting the new Premier League season with a points deduction after potentially breaching profitability and sustainability rules for the past three seasons, two of which they spent in the top division and one in the EFL Championship.

This would go some way to explaining the Foxes’ lack of spending during the 2022/23 campaign which led to relegation, while a season in the second tier will have done nothing but damage their precarious finances.

So there are suggestions that Leicester are under pressure to sell, possibly before the end of the current financial year on June 30, which seems unlikely now in order to comply with the PSR, with Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall a key asset given that he requested. and an academy graduate too, thus making any transfer fee, from an accounting point of view, pure profit.

Dewsbury-Hall’s arrival would be a continuation of Chelsea’s transfer strategy

Since Clearlake Capital took control of Chelsea, led by Todd Boehly, Behdad Eghbali and José E. Feliciano, they have obviously spent a lot of money in the transfer market, around £982 million to be exact, with their strategy , at least in theory, to buy young, developing players before any other big clubs can get their hands on them.

Mykhailo Mudryk, Malo Gusto, Benoît Badiashile, Noni Madueke, Andrey Santos, Cesare Casadei, Carney Chukwuemeka, Gaga Słonina, Lesley Ugochukwu, Đorđe Petrović, Axel Disasi, Deivid Washington and countless others (we could certainly continue this profile,) with the arrival the imminent arrival of both Barcelona’s March Guiu and Aston Villa’s Omari Kellyman, suggesting they are sticking to their model.

Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall could be the next Stamford Bridge player. He is valued at £25 million Transfermarkt but it remains to be seen how long it would take to convince the Foxes to sell.