Maatsen thoughts
So what to make of the Maatsen talks?
football.london says: Chelsea need to be getting the full £35million here or they won’t be recouping even close to his true value. Look at it this way, Maatsen was deemed to be worth £30million just over 12 months ago as a Championship winner, surely the second half of 2023/24 and now being a Champions League finalist bump that up to at least £35million?
Really, Maatsen is the sort of player Chelsea need to be keeping. He looks suited to be an inverted full-back under Maresca and at 22 has so much to offer and plenty of development left. The world is at his feet and the fact that both Lewis Hall and Maatsen could leave for a combined fee of less than what Chelsea paid for Marc Cucurella is a lot of what has gone wrong for Todd Boehly-Clearlake Capital.
Even £35million for Dortmund would be a bargain. Maatsen is going to be worth much more than that in a year’s time. His time at Chelsea looks set to end extremely early, and the club will be the one’s to miss out on the benefits of having him.
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