CHELSEA are reported to be on the trail of Steaua Bucharest winger Florinel Coman.
The Blues’ technical director Michael Emenalo flew to Romania last week to watch the 19-year-old.
He saw Coman help in Steaua to a 1-0 win over city rivals Dinamo.
Although Coman is famed for playing on the left he can operate quite happily all across the front line.
This versatile teenager has already been capped five times by Romania’s Under-21 side.
The Daily Mail reports that Steau’s owner Gigi Becali looks upon him as being at the same level as Kylian Mbappe… hence an £88m release clause.
Chelsea, of course, are well known for poaching promising players at a young age before loaning them out.
Steaua only signed Coman in August from Viitorul Constanta for £2million despite strong interest from Benfica.
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They have a number of talented young players, including Dennis Man, Florin Tanase and Dragos Nedelcu.
But Coman is considered the best of the lot.
Elsewhere, Chelsea have offered a contract worth £300,000 a week to Eden Hazard and expect him to stay.
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"The boffins at Sun Bets tell me there has never been a Premier League game end 0-0 between these sides too so expect goals.
"I'm going to have to go with Jurgen Klopp’s men as on paper they are the much better side.
"12/1 on a 3-1 away win is very tempting."
But the Stamford Bridge hierarchy is wary of the continued interest from Real Madrid in the Belgian winger.
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