Nottingham Forest failed transfer detailed as £25m claim emerges
Nottingham Forest failed transfer detailed as £25m claim emerges
Chelsea reportedly accepted a re-submitted bid from Nottingham Forest for Trevoh Chalobah on transfer deadline day.
Forest tried to beat competition from Bayern Munich and Tottenham by launching a £25million bid. Although Chelsea had accepted the offer, Chalobah favoured a loan move to Bayern instead but it fell through.
Blues preferred a permanent exit for a “significant fee” rather than a loan deal, which was what the German giants were hoping to complete. Despite signing a new contract last November, it appears Chalobah has no place in the squad as his game time has been restricted.
According to the Daily Telegraph’s Matt Law, Forest’s bid would have risen to £30m with add-ons. And although he stayed at Stamford Bridge beyond the summer window, his future remains uncertain.
Chalobah joined Chelsea’s academy at the age of eight and has gone on to make 63 appearances since making his senior debut in 2018.
After failing to secure Chalobah, Forest’s attention turned to Norwich City’s Andrew Omobamidele.
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With the first international break of the season almost over, it is time to park the debates over Phil Foden‘s absence at No 10, why Harry Maguire continues to be called up and whether it’s time Aaron Ramsdale took over from Jordan Pickford – and return our focus to the Premier League.
And we won’t be the only ones, either. Transfer deadline day may have been and gone, but although a number of clubs managed to get late deals over the line at the 11th hour, most of those players won’t have had a chance to make their top-flight bows.
FA rules stipulate that paperwork must have been submitted by 12pm the day before a game if a player is to have any chance of an immediate impact. That’s why Cole Palmer, signed by Chelsea for £45million on deadline day, was able to come off the bench against Nottingham Forest with his deal completed at 9.30AM on September 1.
As a result, fans and players alike will be rubbing their hands with glee at the prospect of seeing some of the division’s latest acquisitions cut loose for the first time this weekend.
Here, Mail Sport takes you through 10 of the biggest names looking to right themselves into the folklore of their new clubs as the Premier League prepares to make its return.
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The Dutch starlet has been a name on many a football fan’s lips – particularly those who played any Football Manager game in the last five years.
A move from boyhood club Ajax to Bayern Munich ultimately failed to bring the midfielder into the limelight where he rightly belongs, with Liverpool coming calling this summer to strengthen their midfield.
At 1.9metres he is no pushover, and despite his height he has quick feet and is both agile and graceful on the ball, ghosting past defenders through a combination of confidence and guile in possession. Only a single goal and an assist at Bayern do not represent his talents, but nonetheless Jurgen Klopp will be keen to help him work on decision-making and final-third actions to get the best out of his new star.
Capable in either a regulation central midfield role or as a slightly more progressive attacking outlet, Reds fans will be desperate to see Gravenberch in action alongside fellow summer signings Alexis Mac Allister and Dominik Szoboszlai, both of whom seem to have made an immediate impact.
Although neither are necessarily natural defensive midfielders, Gravenberch will surely play higher up the pitch with at least one of the World Cup winner and his new Hungarian team-mate holding the fort down in central areas so that the Dutch international can show Thomas Tuchel what he was missing out on.
After penning a five-year contract at Anfield, the 21-year-old will be hoping to get his first minutes in his new No 38 shirt up against Wolves in Saturday’s early kick-off.
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The central midfielder struggled for minutes at Bayern but should feature heavily for the Reds
2. Ansu Fati – Brighton (on loan from Barcelona)
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Once handed the perhaps damaging epithet of ‘the new Messi’, Fati exploded on the scene as the latest in Barcelona’s long line of world-beating superstars of the future after graduating from their La Masia academy.
Now, though, after some desperate luck with injuries – if you can call missing 104 games in just under three years and four knee surgeries luck – he has been given an opportunity to get regular minutes in one of the most hotly-contest divisions on the planet to rediscover what it was that made the world stop, look and listen.
It isn’t that Fati has been bad, but when you’re compared to the greatest player to ever look at a football, it is expected that a player might clock better numbers than 39 goal contributions in 110 games – an otherwise impressive tally for a player of just 20 years.
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At Barcelona, the tricky, balletic attacker that emerged some four years ago has recently suffered something of a crisis of confidence, but make no mistake – he has the potential and ability to become a true world-beater.
Exceptional on the ball and running at pace at the defence, Fati also possesses a deadly eye for goal, cutting in off the left onto his favoured right foot. His long list of injuries paints him as something of a fragile winger, but he has chunks kicked out of him like Messi did at his age, with defenders at a loss for how to stop him.
Teaming him up with one of Europe’s most exciting young attacking managers in Roberto De Zerbi could prove to be a masterstroke from the Catalan giants to get the wonderkid back up and running, believing in his powers once more.
