Moises Caicedo has privately backed £25m participant to affix Chelsea

Chelsea star Moises Caicedo seems to be weighing in on the membership’s switch plans, with the midfielder apparently endorsing one participant and privately urging Enzo Maresca‘s facet to contemplate him as a switch possibility.

Chelsea endure second Brighton defeat in blow for Enzo Maresca

Maresca lower a annoyed determine from the sidelines on Friday night, with Chelsea struggling their second defeat away to Brighton within the house of every week.

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Yankuba Minteh’s brace and a gap purpose from Japanese sensation Kaoru Mitoma condemned Chelsea to back-to-back defeats on the Amex, following their FA Cup exit by the hands of Fabian Hurzeler’s facet final weekend.

Noni Madueke additionally picked up a critical hamstring harm, which Maresca confirmed will sideline the Dutchman for an extended interval. He now joins Marc Guiu and Nicolas Jackson on the therapy desk, leaving Chelsea with a scarcity of high quality attacking gamers.

They did not have a single shot on track towards Brighton, which makes for fairly grim studying, with Maresca now on the lookout for an answer within the absence of Guiu, Jackson and Madueke.

“Hopefully we will [have] photographs on purpose, particularly, for me as a result of we arrive fairly effectively on the fringe of their field,” stated Maresca on Chelsea’s lacking attackers.

“Fairly clear, fairly clear. The issue is then within the final third you want the ball contained in the field, you want the participant, after which the primary one is at all times the No.9 contained in the field.

“On this second, Nico just isn’t there, Marc [Guiu] just isn’t there. We have to discover a totally different resolution. I believe first half we had the Pedro [Neto] likelihood. We had two or three extra on this second that we may rating that we miss. The dangerous feeling on this second is that simply we will concede probabilities, and we wrestle to create probabilities so we’d like discover the steadiness on that.”

Moises Caicedo pushing Chelsea to signal Joel Ordonez

Off the sphere, BlueCo are plotting methods to strengthen the group and again Maresca. Plenty of discuss has already centered round Chelsea concentrating on one other striker for subsequent season, with RB Leipzig starlet Benjamin Sesko and Ipswich City striker Liam Delap linked up to now week (Simon Phillips).

Nevertheless, in line with journalist Graeme Bailey, Chelsea are concentrating on Membership Brugge defender Joel Ordonez to bolster their backline as effectively – sending scouts to run the rule over him throughout latest matches.

Valued at round £25 million, what’s extra fascinating is Bailey’s declare that Caicedo is personally pushing Chelsea to maneuver for Ordonez behind-the-scenes – with the 23-year-old apparently satisfied that his worldwide teammate is sweet sufficient to play for the membership.

“Chelsea are keeping track of Joel Ordonez, the Brugge defender, they have been on the sport towards Atalanta,” Bailey informed The Chelsea Chronicle.

“We all know Ordonez is a participant Chelsea are conscious of, they’ve checked out him earlier than, and earlier than he even moved to Belgium.

“We all know he’s somebody who Caicedo has actually voiced his opinion about that he thinks he’s adequate. Ordonez is an fascinating one, I wouldn’t transfer him out of the equation.”