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Romeo Lavia was being pursued by Chelsea and Liverpool; Reds hammered out an agreement remembered to be worth £60m yet decided to join Chelsea in £58m bargain from Southampton; Lavia signs seven-year bargain; Blues previously beat Liverpool to £115m marking of midfielder Moises Caicedo from Brighton
Friday 18 August 2023 17:47, UK
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Chelsea have finished the marking of midfielder Romeo Lavia from Southampton in an arrangement worth £58m.
The arrangement merits an underlying £53m in addition to £5m in additional items with the 19-year-old marking a seven-year bargain at Stamford Scaffold.
The exchange implies Chelsea's best option midfield this season will probably be contained Lavia, Enzo Fernandez and Moises Caicedo - a unit previously being named the 'LFC midfield' by Chelsea fans following Liverpool's bombed endeavors to sign both Lavia and Caicdeo this late spring.
On finishing his transition to Chelsea, Lavia said: "I'm truly cheerful join Chelsea and be a piece of this thrilling task.
It's an astonishing football club with an incredible history and I'm truly eager to begin.
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"I can hardly hold on to meet all my new partners and construct a science together to accomplish extraordinary things together."
'The ideal player for this venture'
Chelsea lead trainer Mauricio Pochettino:
"We as a whole know him, his quality, his profile. I think he is the ideal player for this undertaking.
"We are invigorated and we are so glad to add him to the crew."
Chelsea co-brandishing chiefs Laurence Stewart and Paul Winstanley added: "We are exceptionally satisfied to invite Romeo to Chelsea.
He exhibited his quality in the Chief Association last season at Southampton, showing development in spite of his young age, and is a player we have checked for quite a while.
"We accept he is prepared to have an effect at Chelsea all through the ebb and flow crusade, and before long."
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Chelsea beat Liverpool to the marking of Lavia after the Reds concurred their own arrangement with Southampton.
Sources told cfcpost.co.uk News the complete bundle concurred among Liverpool and Southampton was worth £60m, however the Belgian midfielder clarified his inclination for moving to Stamford Extension.
Liverpool previously passed up Caicedo to Chelsea after the Brighton midfielder moved to Stamford Scaffold for an English record £115m.
Liverpool had a £111m offer acknowledged by Brighton just for the 21-year-old to illuminate them he simply expected to join Chelsea.
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Lavia began his vocation in Belgium with Anderlecht, burning through eight years at club prior to joining Manchester City at 16 years old.
He made his senior presentation at the Etihad Arena in September 2021, began in the EFL Cup against Wycombe Drifters in a 6-1 triumph.
The midfielder showed up for City prior to finishing a change to Southampton the previous summer.
Lavia showed up for Holy people in a season that finished with transfer at St Mary's.
Lavia pens goodbye message to Holy people fans
Southampton's active midfielder Romeo Lavia:
"As I bid farewell, I need to say a major thank you for all that you have given me during my time here.
"I've immediately sensed the adoration from you all regardless of us not accomplishing our common objectives. I will always remember the conviction the club and Holy people from one side of the planet to the other showed me and I truly want to believe that I had the option to reimburse the confidence you put in me.
"I might particularly want to thank every one of my partners and all staff individuals inside the club included intently or not for putting your arms around me since the day I strolled through the Staplewood Grounds and for all the day to day work and help in the background causing me to improve personally, competitor and football player.
You have all had a gigantic impact into making my incorporation into genuine expert football more straightforward.
Chelsea have now sprinkled an association beating £343.9m this mid year.
Lavia turns into the club's eleventh marking of the window, having likewise marked Moises Caicedo (£115m), Christopher Nkunku (£52m), Axel Disasi (£38.8m), Nicolas Jackson (£32m), Robert Sanchez (£25m), Lesley Ugochukwu (£23.1m), Angelo Gabriel, Ishe Samuels-Smith, Diego Moreira and Alex Matos (all undisclosed).
Last season, the Blues sprinkled a record-breaking £601.
7m across both exchange windows on new signings and just recovered £61m from player deals - however the club has recovered more this season.
Mauricio Pochettino's side have traded out £232.3m in this window, selling Kai Havertz (£65m), Bricklayer Mount (£60m), Mateo Kovacic (£30m), Christian Pulisic (£18.8m), Ruben Loftus-Cheek (£18.5m), Kalidou Koulibaly (£17m), Edouard Mendy (£16m) and Ethan Ampadu (£7m).
The way things are, that multitude of arrangements place Chelsea fourth in the table for net enjoy with an equilibrium of £111.6m.
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