Chelsea reportedly hold serious interest in Southampton defender Kyle Walker-Peters.
After falling out of favour at Tottenham, Walker-Peters moved to Southampton where he has become a regular in the team at St Marys.
Walker-Peters has operated at his usual right-back position as well as left-back at times, making him a useful, versatile player in the Southampton squad.
Now, Fabrizio Romano has confirmed that Chelsea have a “serious interest” in Walker-Peters, but an approach is yet to be made, he confirmed to CaughtOffside via his column on Substack.
Romano has also revealed that he expects Southampton to value Walker-Peters at between £35m-£40m.
Although Chelsea currently have Reece James as their starting right wing-back, their lack of depth in this position is an issue. The likes of Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Callum Hudson-Odoi have deputised in James’ absence, despite not naturally playing in this position.
Adding a player such as Walker-Peters who can operate on both sides of the defence would give Thomas Tuchel an ideal squad player and much-needed cover at wing-back.
Southampton rarely stand in a player’s way if an offer from a bigger club comes in, so it will be interesting to see if Walker-Peters is keen to move to the London club if an approach was made.
Why sell your best players if these so called big clubs are that good as the media keep saying and the papers do they should try and produce some of there own but that’s to hard for them buy someone cheap to keep the bench warm