Chelsea transfer news: West Bromwich Albion in 'advanced talks' to sign 20-year-old talent

Chelsea are reportedly adjacent to selling guardant Jimmy-Jay Morgan to West Bromwich Albion.

Having retained their Championship presumption during the closing weeks of 2025-26, the Baggies are present successful the marketplace for caller additions.

The EFL fiscal regulations are expected to restrict however James Morrison wishes to marque changes to his squad up of adjacent season.

Nevertheless, Morrison volition beryllium capable to effort to find worth signings that could wage disconnected successful the abbreviated and agelong term.

According to Football Insider, that has resulted successful the West Midlands outfit making a ceremonial attack to unafraid the signing of Morgan.

Who is Jimmy-Jay Morgan?

The 20-year-old spent clip with some Chelsea and Southampton during his academy days, a effect of the question progressive erstwhile helium was astatine Chelsea.

However, contempt 21 goals from 46 outings for Chelsea's Under-21s, the England Under-20 planetary has ne'er featured successful the first-team squad.

Instead, his elder improvement has taken spot connected indebtedness astatine Gillingham successful League Two and Peterborough United successful past season's League One.

Morgan enjoyed the champion twelvemonth of his vocation with the latter, contributing 14 goals and 4 assists from his 39 outings for Posh.

With conscionable a twelvemonth remaining connected his contract, Chelsea are blessed to currency successful connected the starlet, who volition seemingly proceed his vocation successful the Championship.

Although a transportation interest is not mentioned, Chelsea paid successful the portion of £3m for Morgan successful 2023 and volition necessitate astatine slightest £750,000 to marque a nett from an amortisation standpoint. Therefore, it marque instrumentality a fig successful that ballpark to get a woody implicit the line.

Morgan woody would beryllium shrewd concern for Chelsea, West Brom

West Brom person released the likes of Jed Wallace and Daryl Dike since the extremity of past season, freeing up abstraction successful the last third.

Morgan whitethorn not needfully go an contiguous starter astatine The Hawthorns, but helium is idiosyncratic who tin play successful a fig of positions and has the imaginable to go a semipermanent asset.

Over the people of a 46-game Championship play and with West Brom having sometimes been mediocre successful onslaught past season, helium volition get opportunities to impress.

He besides offers thing antithetic to Aune Heggebo and Josh Maja, who were some inconsistent successful beforehand of extremity during 2025-26.