Having sold Edouard Mendy and agreed to loan Kepa Arrizabalaga to Real Madrid, Chelsea are only left with new signing Robert Sánchez as their main goalkeeper.
Neither Marcus Bettinelli nor Lucas Bergström are going to provide the 25-year-old any real competition, which is why the idea of signing a player like Kasper Schmeichel has emerged.
News of Chelsea’s alleged interest started in England, but it’s made its way to France where Nice-Matin cover the situation surrounding the Denmark international, who wants to leave OGC Nice.
Having been ‘relegated in the hierarchy’ of goalkeepers at the Ligue 1 side, where he is now behind Marcin Bulka, Schmeichel doesn’t plan on ‘getting old’ in the south of France despite the two years of contract he has left there.
He was allowed to have a few days off recently, clearly to think about his future and where he could go, and while the Dane was first determined on returning to the Premier League, he is now ‘less demanding regarding his next destination’.
Wanting to play in the 2024 Euros with his country, he needs to play this season, and that’s when the rumours about Chelsea being keen are brought up.
According to Nice-Matin’s information, the Blues have yet to ‘fully dig’ this avenue and haven’t made any contact with OGC Nice, who are ‘looking forward’ to an approach, whether it be from the Stamford Bridge side or anyone else, to get the player off their books.
In short, if Chelsea do go after Schmeichel, it should be a fairly straightforward process, with little resistance.
