Fabrizio Romano has given his “here we go” treatment to another deal involving Chelsea in a busy week.
Just a few hours after breaking their interest in an exclusive, Romano has declared Everton’s move for Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall as a “done deal.”
Dewsbury-Hall earns Blues their money back with Premier League move
The deal is a good one for Chelsea, all told. They paid around £30m for the midfielder a year ago, and according to Romano will get almost all of that back. The initial fee is £25m for Dewsbury-Hall, with add-ons taking that up to £29m.
Romano adds that Lesley Ugochukwu and Carney Chukwuemeka are soon to follow KDH out of the club, with all 3 heavily linked with moves in the last 24 hours.
Chelsea lose Conference League stalwart – but replace him with upgrades
Dewsbury-Hall looked like something of a spare piece in the first few weeks at Chelsea, but Romeo Lavia’s endless injury problems gave him more of a role. Over time he became a Conference League regular, and his ability to either play in the midfield line or the attacking line against weaker was useful in that competition to allow Maresca to rotate everyone who needed to be rotated every week.
But with the Champions League on the horizon this year, opportunities were bound to be more limited for the former Leicester man, and so selling him for close to what we signed him for after getting a good year out of him is a sensible man.
The addition of Andrey Santos and Dario Essugo in the middle, plus a host of options up top with Xavi Simons still to come, should more than make up for his loss.
Good luck out there, KDH!