Chelsea eyeing Artem Dovbyk

2024-01-01 19:30:57

There is no day without scares Girona, which checks how the great performance offered by its players is noticed by the European giants. If a few days ago the rumor mill placed Aleix Garcia with the possibility of signing for Barça, now it’s his turn Artem Dovbyk. According to the newspaper The Mirror, Mauricio Pochettino has him positioned as his number one priority on the list of winter market reinforcements for the Chelsea. There is also talk of numbers: the amount would climb up to 39 million pounds, around 45 million euros.

The normative FIFAhowever, says that a player can be registered in three clubs in the same year (Dovbyk already played in the Dnipro-1 this season), but participate in two. According to this, then, the footballer could not play this second part of the championship with any other team. At Chelsea, we must add the interest of Atlético de Madrid, who have him on their radar.

Chelsea are interested in signing Girona striker Artem Dovbyk in a move that could spell the end of Armando Broja’s time at Stamford Bridge pic.twitter.com/KqYQ6HDWmO

— Mirror Football (@MirrorFootball) January 1, 2024

But little joke if the English put on the table an amount close to this for a striker who, since he landed in Montilivi, does not stop scoring goals. Dovbyk is Girona’s top scorer in La Liga, with eleven. In fact, it is the third-lowest in the championship, two goals behind Bellingham (Real Madrid) and one of Borja Mayoral (Getafe). Four assists must be added to the curriculum, just two of the top assist in the championship, Toni Kroos.

Dovbyk’s influence on the system implemented by Míchel Sánchez is notorious. The Ukrainian is the most expensive signing in the history of the club, which invested nearly eight million euros for 50% of his rights. And Pochettino, always according to the The Mirror, he is in love with it. In literal words, “he was impressed by his physical profile”.

It is also known that the English team has no problem arriving at a club and letting the necessary ones take their last whim. Also, he’ll have a headache this winter. His reference striker, Nicolas Jacksonsigned last summer from Real Villagemarch to the Africa Cup to participate with the Senegal. Pochettino runs out of nine and is looking for one.

The same sources of the British newspaper indicate that for the operation to take place, the link between Artem Dovbyk and Mykhaylo Mudryk, Chelsea’s talented Ukrainian footballer, may have something to do with it. In the news they emphasize that “they talk to each other every day”. In fact, they share a representative. Dovbyk, 26 years old, is valued at 28 million euros according to the specialized website Transfer market.

Montilivi, stadium of passions during the year 2023

Aleix Garcia, Dovbyk, Miguel Gutierrez i Viktor Tsygankov. Rumors and more rumours, some with more certainty than others. The case of Dovbyk is not isolated, because the supposed interest of Barcelona in Aleix Garcia and that of the Real Madrid to recover Miguel Gutiérrez, it should be remembered that a few weeks ago Viktor Tsygankov’s name was floated as a possible signing of the Tottenham or of Bayern Munichas reported by the medium Bild, in a hypothetical operation that would climb up to 30 million euros. Figures that Girona has never seen in one fell swoop.

Recognizing that the Girona club is also a sales club (only in this way can it grow, as it always claims that it can Quique Cárcelits sporting director), the highest transaction made by the white-and-red club was the sale of Santi Bueno this summer, towards the Premier League. The Wolverhampton he left twelve million euros to Montilivi. From that to Tsygankov’s 30 or Dovbyk’s 45 (which would not all end up in Girona, because neither of the two footballers has one hundred percent of the rights) there is a very large margin.

Europe can change its view

In an instant message before the start of 2024 on Girona’s social networks, Míchel Sánchez expressed his wish for the new year that has just started: “On a sporting scale it is to play the Champions». The ambition, very positive, means that the white-and-red team, predisposed to close some operation that benefits them financially and continue to turn the wheel (in this way, it can invest in more footballers), will not strip the staff if he achieves his maximum goal, which is none other than finishing the League in the top four.

Playing the Champions League, or, if everything is not so idyllic, the Europa League, will cause a qualitative leap in a dressing room that will have to continue to reinvent itself in order to face the new challenges. And this, in short, means that he will not sell all his best men at once and that they (or a large majority) will also want to continue in Montilivi, because the window deserves it.