Atletico Madrid defender Jose Gimenez has dropped a possible hint that he’d welcome a transfer to Chelsea amid recent links with the Blues.
See below as Gimenez, recently claimed to be a £60million target for Chelsea by Football Insider, reveals he is a huge fan of Frank Lampard and a long-time admirer of the club as a whole…
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What’s that? Just José Gimenez talking about his admiration for one of his heroes #Lamps watching him on telly growing up in #Uruguay and how he would’ve liked to play with him at Chelsea pic.twitter.com/vN5e3ine0j
— Ollie Glanvill (@OllieGlanvill) August 18, 2020
Gimenez could be a superb signing to help Chelsea strengthen at the back after a difficult season, with the Uruguay international surely a significant upgrade on under-performing centre-backs like Andreas Christensen and Kurt Zouma.
On Lampard, he said: “I would have liked to play with Lampard. I always used to watch Chelsea as a kid, loved them.”
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