
Chelsea have made it clear they will trump any Arsenal offer for Shakhtar Donetsk's Mykhailo Mudryk, as the Stamford Bridge club continue to try and hijack one of the first major deals of the January window.
While a number of connected sources maintain that the highly-rated 21-year-old prefers Arsenal, especially as Mikel Arteta has outlined the attacker's role in a burgeoning team, the Stamford Bridge hierarchy continue to feel “bullish” about business.