Chelsea, Tottenham Lead Race For Lecce’s Rising Star Patrick Dorgu – Impartial Newspaper Nigeria

Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur are reportedly considered because the frontrunners within the race to signal Lecce defender Patrick Dorgu.

Having made the swap from Nordsjaelland in 2022, the 19-year-old has shortly established himself as one in every of Lecce’s most essential gamers.

Regardless of his age, Dorgu has already made 38 appearances for the Serie A outfit, contributing two objectives and one help from the left facet.

Whereas the teenager discovered himself out and in of the workforce throughout 2023-24, he has since made three begins in Italy’s prime flight this season.

Dorgu’s rise has already led to him being known as as much as the Denmark senior squad along with his first two caps being earned within the current UEFA Nations League victories over Switzerland and Serbia.

He marked his debut with a objective within the first of these video games, Lecce hoping that Dorgu will now be capable to kick on as soon as he has served a suspension for a current pink card.

Nonetheless, regardless of possessing a contract till 2027, it stays unclear whether or not his long-term future can be at I Giallorossi or an even bigger membership.

In accordance with La Gazzetta dello Sport, Chelsea, and Spurs have moved into pole place to safe a deal for the prospect.

The report means that Dorgu’s valuation may now be within the area of €40m (£33.78m) given the pace of his development on the home and worldwide entrance.

Lecce had beforehand set an asking value of €30m, it was considered as a pure transfer to extend that based mostly on his emergence for Denmark.

Though membership officers are able to current Dorgu with a brand new contract, the participant’s representatives could plausibly insist on a launch clause for that to return to fruition.

With Chelsea having omitted England worldwide Ben Chilwell from their plans, it’s clear that they’re ready to position religion in Marc Cucurella and Renato Veiga at left-back.

From the Spurs’ perspective, they’ve Future Udogie, Ben Davies, and Sergio Reguilon as their choices, however the long-term way forward for the latter duo is much from sure.

Manchester United has beforehand been linked with a transfer for Dorgu with Erik ten Hag determined to strengthen in that space courtesy of the long-term health problems with Luke Shaw and Tyrell Malacia.

Nevertheless, the Purple Devils is probably not ready to spend the aforementioned price on a participant with restricted expertise after their splurge on contemporary expertise in the summertime.

(SOURCE: SportsMole)