Chelsea and Tottenham have been linked with a transfer for Juventus centre-back Gleison Bremer. The 26-year-old solely signed for the Italian giants final season however is already anticipated to depart this summer time.

According to Calcio Mercato, Juventus are keen to let the Brazil worldwide go for a price of round £43.3million (€50m) and each Tottenham and Chelsea are on "high alert". The Italian publication declare Chelsea have recognized Bremer as a possible substitute for Wesley Fofana, who has been dominated out for almost all of the season after not too long ago present process reconstructive anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) surgical procedure.

Speaking about Fofana's harm, Blues boss Mauricio Pochettino stated: "Really sad, really bad news. We feel so sad. We can only help him and to be again with the team we know it is tough. We need to help him and wish him all the best. We need to keep going, the competition is there. The competition doesn't wait for anyone and we need to be ready."

When requested whether or not he could possibly play once more this season, Pochettino replied: "I hope yes. You have all of the information that this is difficult. He is evolving in a different way but hopefully, his recovery goes very well."

Chelsea have additionally been linked with Real Betis' Luiz Felipe, Crystal Palace's Marc Guehi, Manchester United's Harry Maguire and Josko Gvardiol of RB Leipzig. The latter of which seems to be closing in on a deal to affix Manchester City whereas Bremer appears to be essentially the most strong possibility out of the opposite names on Chelsea's shortlist.

Spurs supervisor Ange Postecoglou can also be eager to strengthen his line of defense and intends to usher in not less than one first-team centre-back forward of subsequent season. Speaking to assembled media, he admitted that it has been an extended course of discovering the proper kind of participant.

"Yeah, I think that's definitely our intention, absolutely. We've been working on it for a while and we'll definitely try to get it done as quickly as possible," he stated.

Tottenham had the sixth-worst defensive report out of any workforce within the Premier League final season and had been finally saved by their offensive outputs. In 38 video games they conceded 63 objectives, solely Nottingham Forest, Leicester City, Bournemouth, Southampton and Leeds faired worse.