Chelsea and Liverpool are the main candidates to sign Sporting defender Goncalo Inacio
As per Spanish outlet Fichajes (h/t Football.London), Chelsea and Liverpool are the main favourites to sign Sporting defender Goncalo Inacio in this summer transfer window.
It is revealed that 14-time European champions Real Madrid are also monitoring the situation of the player. He is valued at around £43m by Sporting.
A few weeks ago, Express Sport reported that Manchester United had been tracking the Portuguese international who has been at Sporting since 2012 (childhood days).
The 21-year-old is a left-footed centre-back who can play as a left-back too. He made his senior debut for Sporting three years ago and has become a regular member of the XI in the last 18 months or so.
Inacio is comfortable in passing out from the back, has the pace to track runners even playing in a high defensive line and is a good reader of the game defensively.
Considering all of that and knowing that Chelsea have Levi Colwill and Benoit Badiashile, it makes little sense that they would try to pay £43m to sign Inacio this summer.
Colwill and Badiashile are identical players and both resemble Inacio’s profile and style of play. The former will have talks with Mauricio Pochettino after the club offered him a new deal because he has reservations about potential playing time next season.
Keeping all that in mind, it might be foolish of Chelsea to go for Inacio this summer, unless Pochettino is directly interested in the player for some reason.
The money can be spent on either bolstering the midfield (re. signing Moises Caicedo) or getting another number nine in to support Nicolas Jackson.
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As objective as this sounds, we have seen the Blues do daft things in the transfer market in the last 12 months. So, we never know what will happen.