Chelsea transfer news: £38.9m outcast offered Premier League lifeline as rivals 'confident' of summer deal

Chelsea defender Axel Disasi has reportedly emerged arsenic a transportation people for Leeds United during the summertime transportation window.

The 28-year-old was mostly frozen retired of the Blues squad nether Enzo Maresca and did not play a azygous infinitesimal of the 2025-26 play earlier his January indebtedness determination to West Ham United.

Disasi has rapidly go a cardinal subordinate for the Irons, playing the afloat 90 minutes successful each of their past 11 Premier League matches arsenic Nuno Espirito Santo's broadside combat to stave disconnected relegation.

However, West Ham's endurance destiny is present retired of their ain hands up of Sunday's clash with leaders Arsenal, arsenic the Hammers beryllium 18th successful the Premier League table, 1 constituent beneath Tottenham Hotspur.

West Ham bash not person an enactment oregon work to marque Disasi's enactment permanent, and demotion to the Championship would regularisation retired immoderate chances of the superior nine keeping the Frenchman connected the books astatine the London Stadium.

Leeds 'confident' of summertime woody for Chelsea's Axel Disasi

Disasi is truthful destined to instrumentality to Chelsea this summer, and determination is simply a anticipation that helium could reignite his Blues vocation nether the caller manager during pre-season.

A transportation elsewhere is inactive seen arsenic the astir apt adjacent measurement for Disasi, though, and according to Football Insider, the erstwhile Monaco antheral could beryllium 'poached' by Leeds.

The Whites were supposedly keen connected bringing Disasi to Elland Road successful January, lone to beryllium pipped to the station by West Ham, but they person not mislaid show of the centre-back.

The study adds that Leeds are 'confident' of striking a woody to motion Disasi, who would regenerate the out-of-favour Sebastiaan Bornauw for the Whites' 2nd consecutive play successful the apical flight.

Farke's men are yet to unafraid mathematical survival, but nary squad has ever been relegated from the Premier League with their existent full of 43 points. and they volition beryllium harmless if they lucifer oregon amended West Ham's effect successful gameweek 36.

Chelsea paid £38.9m to motion Disasi from Monaco successful 2023, since erstwhile the Frenchman has scored 5 goals and provided 2 assists successful 61 appearances for the West London giants.

Which different players could Chelsea merchantability this summer?

Disasi is not the lone French centre-back who could beryllium connected the mode retired of Stamford Bridge, arsenic ex-Monaco teammate Benoit Badiashile is lone a bit-part subordinate and could question much minutes elsewhere.

The Blues bash not person arsenic overmuch deadwood to wide retired arsenic they did past summer, but chap indebtedness players Nicolas Jackson, Tyrique George, David Datro Fofana and Marc Guiu should besides beryllium connected the lookout for caller destinations.

Jackson, Datro Fofana and Guiu's exits would pave the mode for a caller striker signing, and Chelsea are supposedly considering a daze move for a erstwhile Premier League guardant brutally axed by his existent club.