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They could hope to reach out" - Dean Jones says Chelsea could join competition to sign £70 million forward
Columnist Dean Jones accepts Chelsea might join Manchester United in the competition to sign Ajax winger Antony.
TalkSPORT has guaranteed that Erik ten Hag is as yet keen on bringing the 22-year-old forward to Old Trafford. The report guarantees that the Eredivise champions are searching for an expense of around €70 million.
Antony has been a headliner for Ajax over the past two or three seasons. Jones accepts Chelsea may before long be in the chase after the Brazilian, as the need might arise to make their bleeding edge more powerful for the impending effort.
Addressing Give Me Sport, Jones announced:
"I think there is something in the gossip about Chelsea sniffing around Antony. They realize he is searching for a move, so they could hope to reach out."
He added:
"It's marginally like the [Cristiano] Ronaldo circumstance. Fundamentally, they need a world class assailant and there are relatively few that are really searching for moves."
Antony would be one more choice for Thomas Tuchel on the wing whenever marked. They as of now have new marking Raheem Sterling on the wings, who joined any semblance of Hakim Ziyech, Christian Pulisic and Callum Hudson-Odoi.
Where Chelsea have all the earmarks of being light is right now at focus forward following the takeoff of Romelu Lukaku to Inter Milan on advance recently.
Thomas Tuchel demands Chelsea need to sign more players this late spring to contend
The Blues persevered through a fierce season on and off the pitch last season, with new proprietor Todd Boehly now in to consistent the boat ideally.
The double cross European bosses completed 19 focuses behind champions Manchester City in the Premier League last season. Tuchel has now conceded that his side have a lot of work to do to find the Premier League's main two.
According to The Metro, the German manager was inquired as to whether he had an unmistakable thought of the number of signings that are required for his group, to which he answered:
"Better believe it, I have a figure, I think we really want a couple more players in to work on the crew. We came third last season, we can examine unendingly the reasons however there was a hole between us, Manchester City and Liverpool."
He added:
"As a rule, if you need to keep your situation, to battle for a similar position you want to improve, you can never stop. Assuming you stop, different groups will overwhelm you. So given the circumstance that we've even lost players, for me it's generally expected sense that we really want to carry new quality to the group, to keep up with our level, not even talk about working on our level."
The Blues have marked winger Raheem Sterling from Manchester City and focus back Kalidou Koulibaly from Napoli
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