With Chelsea’s managerial activity apparently completely frozen in time, at least the club’s hoover for young talent appears to still be active.
While the first team is lacking any direction or leadership, with two top players looking less and less likely to sign a new deal, a manager situation without any clear answers, no first team signings on the horizon and an owner who is having to change nationality just to get into the country, you’d forgive a first team player for being hesitant about coming to the Bridge.
BREAKING:
CHELSEA ARE SIGNING SOMEONE… 🧐
Pierre-Emmanuel Ekwah Elimby will join Chelsea from Nantes.
A very talented player.
— Carlito (@BlueCoProject) May 29, 2018
https://twitter.com/joomyt/status/1001597643217293312
But Pierre-Emmanuel Ekwah Elimby, the under 16 player from Nantes, is rumoured to be making the leap- bear in mind these reports are very unsubstantiated.
Hopefully by the time he’s turned 30 we will have a new manager in place.
Nantes have a superb youth academy, and there’s plenty of pedigree there. While the Blues are a mess upstairs, they showed their continuing excellence at plucking youth talent last summer, when they picked up Daishawn Redan from Ajax, Billy Gilmour from Rangers and Ethan Ampadu from Exeter.
All of these proved to be excellent pickups, and Ekwah would be the first of several more this summer.
