‘Confidence growing’ – Chelsea exit heading in right direction, player ‘hopes to change the air’

With Romelu Lukaku now back at Inter, Chelsea can focus on other players, including finding a new landing spot for Hakim Ziyech.

While contributing with important goals during his time under Thomas Tuchel, the Morocco international has never found great consistency under the German manager, and there is a feeling he could be starting more elsewhere.

Milan have long been keen on the Chelsea man, and with a league title under their belt and Champions League to offer, this could be the year they pull it off.

It would be on loan to start with regardless, and Corriere dello Sport explain that while an operation seemed complex to start with, ‘the will of all parties involved’ could help get it done.

In fact, the Chelsea player ‘would like to try an experience in Italy’ and ‘hopes to change the air after two years in London where he has found little space’.

Furthermore, Milan ‘would be delighted to welcome him and crown him as the team’s star’.

With all this in mind, ‘the operation began to take shape with more substance in the past few hours’, corroborating claims from Sport Mediaset on Monday afternoon that progress had been made.

Corriere explain ‘the confidence growing for the success of the operation stems from the fact Chelsea would have opened up to the idea of a loan’.

What needs to be worked out if whether the option to buy would be compulsory (even if Sport Mediaset said it would be) and how much of his Stamford Bridge wages the player would have to give up to get the move done.