Olympique Lyonnais Denies Moussa Dembele’s Transfer Rumors to Chelsea

DBasia.news –  Olympique Lyonnais striker, Moussa Dembele, is a priority transfer to Chelsea in January.

Chelsea’s desire to recruit new players as soon as possible so commonplace, because they do not recruit new players last summer because of a FIFA transfer embargo.

The only new player who comes is Christian Pulisic of Borussia Dortmund. Chelsea have reached an agreement in January 2019 and Pulisic moved in the summer of 2019.

The sanctions have been lifted and Chelsea can recruit new players again. Front-line priority because relying too heavily on Tammy Abraham coated by Michy Batshuayi and Olivier Giroud. The name of the latter rumored to move because he is rarely played.

Dembele, 23 years old, Frank Lampard desired transfer target. This season the former Celtic striker has scored 10 goals from 18 matches in Ligue 1.

Chelsea reportedly set up a 34 million pounds to sign him. However, the Blues have not had an official bid, they were rebuffed by Lyon.

“Olympique Lyonnais Management is aware of the media coverage of the interest of other clubs to bring in Moussa Dembele in the winter transfer market,” the Lyon statement on their official website.

“Dembele will not be sold and will remain with Lyon at least until the end of the season. Club management provides a complete trust for Dembele and will make it a mainstay players until next season and will build a team that can make Dembele put out their full potential.”

Not only Dembele targeted by Chelsea in January, the other players who entered their transfer list are: Wilfried Zaha (Crystal Palace), Leon Bailey (Bayer Leverkusen), Samuel Chukwueze (Villarreal), and Fyodor Chalov (CSKA Moscow).