Chelsea ready £50million plus a player transfer to re-sign former star this summer

Chelsea are ready to do a £50million cash-plus-player deal to recapture Marc Guehi this summer. want £70m for the England defender, and would be willing to accept Trevor Chalobah, who has impressed on loan at Selhurst Park, as part of the deal.

value Chalobah at £30m, so a cash-plus-player swap would suit Palace, who are resigned to losing Guehi. The 24-year-old, who left Stamford Bridge for four years ago for £18m, goes into this summer with one year left on his contract.

Guehi has also been heavily tracked by and . Newcastle had a succession of bids, including one of £65m turned down, while Liverpool saw Guehi as a replacement for captain Virgil van Dijk if he left with his contract due up this summer.

But it looks like the Holland captain is staying at Anfield, and that has put Chelsea in the box seat.

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Chelsea lost Wesley Fofana for the rest of the season this week, another injury for the French defender who simply hasn't been able to avoid issues since joining from three years ago.

Fofana has a muscle problem and not featured since starting last month’s 1-0 loss at . Midfielder Romeo Lavia is also injured again, and boss Enzo Maresca spoke about the pair earlier this week.

“We are going to support them for sure because they are our players, because they are young, and because they are human beings and in a moment where they struggle for different reasons, we need to support them,” said the Italian.

“Unfortunately, Wes will be out for the rest of the season. Hopefully we can get (back) Romeo very soon. I don’t know if for the next game but he looks quite good in terms of being back soon. We need to support both and then at the end of the season we will see.”

Chelsea play Ipswich at home on Sunday looking to stay ahead of the pack in the race for the .

With five places now guaranteed for the Premier League in next year’s competition, the Blues know there can be no slip ups, with , Newcastle and all looking to take advantage of any errors.

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