Chelsea has joined the list of clubs expressing interest in Folarin Balogun following his impressive loan spell at Reims.
The young Arsenal player has decided to depart the club permanently after opting against going out on loan again. Balogun’s breakout season in France exceeded expectations, and Arsenal currently does not have plans to integrate him as a significant member of their squad.
As a result, Balogun is now seeking a move away from the Emirates, and Chelsea has emerged as a potential suitor. The Blues have been in search of a striker to strengthen their squad, but their pursuit has yet to yield positive results.
According to a report from TalkSport, Chelsea is in talks with the representatives of Balogun as they explore the possibility of adding him to their squad.
Just Arsenal Opinion
Balogun did well while playing for us last season and remains one of the finest players to emerge from our academy.
The youngster is destined for greatness, but it is hard for Mikel Arteta to choose between him and Eddie Nketiah and that might be why the club is looking to offload him.
Chelsea will meet our valuation for his signature if they consider him good enough to lead their line from the start of next season.
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It still boggles my mind why Arsenal is finding it hard to integrate Balogun in their squad. Balogun has been a revelation since his days in the academy. It’s an open secret that Arsenal does not have a number 9 like what Man City has in Halland and yet they are open to selling Balogun worse to a rival. Relying too much on Martinelli and Saka for goals proved to be Arsenal downfall last season. Once these two are marked out of the it’s game over for Arsenal and Arteta doesn’t see that.
If they are stupid enough to fork out £50 million for a player yet to prove himself in this league, then who are we to stop them?
Take them for every penny if he doesn’t want to stay at Arsenal and bring in Vlahovic or a similar level of player.
Hahah your Guy Vlahovic Will cost u 80 -90 and he dosent want to come arsenal and was shit in Italy last season so not proven in premier i wouldnt swap him let vhlavic stay in Juve as his his wish was last year. Balogun just want to play let him play rotation and everybody can be happy
I’m hoping he gets some game time in our upcoming pre season games and I would be very sad to see him leave us but going from our bench to their bench, is it a good move?
I think the preseason will determine whether he stays or goes. Imo it depends whether he can play with our tactical setup. In our setup it’s *more* important the CF can press intelligently and link the play well than how many goals he scores – his goalscoring instincts would be a huge bonus of course, but imo this is not seen as the main job.
@Davi
What you don’t realize is that all managers are now falling back to a more clinical striker and more reason Klopp is signing strikers.
If you’re not signing a clinical striker atleast have a clinical winger like Salah and none of our players is ready to step up to that.
All EPL winners always have one 20 goals scorer in there team except Man City 22 world-class teams which we don’t have (how many bench players can score more than 10goals like Mahrez and Foden?) Or you think Odegaard will score another 15goals this season?
Mane and Salah scores more than 20 goals a season, Vardy scores more than 20, Costa also did.
So I think we need a clinical striker and not a player who is not always in the box. Rice, Havertz and Odegaard are enough. We won’t always win with same tactics we used last season cos teams already study us. We need to change tactics and strikers who can score is one, more reason you see Pep changing tactics every season.