Bournemouth is trying to rebuild the defense, they are planning to recruit young star Josh Acheampong of Chelsea.
Bournemouth lost three defenders this summer, whereby PSG recruited Illia Zabarnyi with a £ 57 million contract, Real Madrid recruited Dean Huijsen for a fee of £ 50 million and Liverpool recruited defender Milos Kerkez for more than £ 40 million.
This caused coach Andoni Iraola to face the comprehensive defensive crisis, and the Spanish coach considered Chelsea's versatile young player Josh Acheampong as his top priority to upgrade the defense.
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Bournemouth wants Josh Acheampong of Chelsea. |
The London team spent £ 34.6 million to buy Bafode Diakite from Lille, but they are really wanting to reach an agreement with Acheampong. Bournemouth wants a long -term agreement and hopes to convince Chelsea to sell players before the transfer.
However, Chelsea is very tough, they will only lend the 19 -year -old, whom they consider the “new Levi Colwill”. The ability to play in both the center -back position and the Acheampong defender helped him receive attention from many teams, and Chelsea only accepted loan instead of selling this player. The Blues wants to repeat Colwill's formula, accordingly for Acheampong to go on loan to gain experience before putting him in the main squad.
Colwill was impressively under the guidance of coach Roberto De Zerbi in Brighton, where he grew up and then became the pillar of the Blues.
In less than three weeks, the transfer period, the decision is in the hands of Chelsea. The Blues are also looking for additional for their squad, they are rumored to be interested in Alejandro Garnacho of MU and Xavi Simons of RB Leipzig.