Chelsea’s search for a brand new sporting director continues as they give the impression of being world wide for choices, and one of many names they’d like to lure to Stamford Bridge is Sevilla’s Monchi, sources have informed 90min.
The 54-year-old has spent practically 30 years as a participant and govt with Sevilla, with the one time away from the membership being two years with Roma between 2017 and 2019.
Monchi, lengthy thought-about certainly one of soccer’s best sporting administrators, has recurrently been linked with a transfer to the Premier League in the previous and has beforehand held talks with Manchester United and Arsenal.
Now, having seen approaches for Michael Edwards and Christoph Freund fail, Chelsea are persevering with their hunt for a brand new sporting director and 90min understands that Blues co-owner and interim sporting director Todd Boehly is a big fan of Monchi.
Boehly had intensive contact with Monchi throughout the summer time in Chelsea’s failed pursuit of Jules Kounde, who ended up signing for Barcelona, and was understood to be massively impressed by the Sevilla director’s conduct.
However, Monchi’s curiosity in leaving Sevilla is at the moment unclear. He was persuaded to depart when he joined Roma in 2017 however spent simply two years in the Eternal City earlier than returning to Spain, and it stays to be seen whether or not he has any curiosity in leaving once more.
Boehly’s focus is on discovering one of the best match for the membership and has held talks with quite a few candidates already. Moves for Edwards and Freund have failed however Chelsea have spoken to a number of different potential choices, together with Monaco’s Paul Mitchell.
Sources have additionally confirmed that the Blues have real curiosity in Bayer Leverkusen’s Tim Steidten and Leeds’ Victor Orta.
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