It doesn’t seem like any membership is but pushing exhausting to signal Ivan Toney from Brentford this summer season. I think it would warmth up quickly, however I’m questioning whether or not there’s something extra to the reasoning as to why Chelsea, and different golf equipment, haven’t pushed for him but.
Chelsea have been keen on Toney for fairly a while and had been about to make an strategy earlier than he bought his ban. I’m positive there’s components about these points which may put some golf equipment off.
His worth was additionally one other factor, and maybe his age. However we heard he must be gettable for £40m this summer season, which for me is an honest worth for a striker of his stature.
I’ve stated earlier than that I feel Chelsea want his profile on this squad – we don’t have a participant prefer it. Within the England recreation on Sunday, Toney confirmed precisely what he brings. Fairly merely, he’s an outlet, he’s a possession keeper, and he’s a bodily nuisance to defenders. He bullies them, he wins very important fouls, and he wins very important duels. That is what we want in our squad.
That’s even earlier than mentioning his very important expertise and in addition, baggage of Premier League expertise and now worldwide expertise too. He ticks so many packing containers.
He got here on when England actually wanted him to do a job, and he did simply that, helping Harry Kane and simply actually giving Slovakia an issue to take care of, far more than Kane did all recreation (aside from his objective that he couldn’t miss).
Toney drops in to get on the ball however he additionally will get within the field on the proper instances. Chelsea must be throughout it, until there’s a deeper purpose that we don’t find out about, as to why they’ve pulled away from him – and it higher not be due to his age! Possibly it’s an angle points, who is aware of. Simply bear in mind although, no one aside from Chelsea followers appreciated Diego Costa a lot both…..