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Matt Davies

Nottingham Forest favourites to seal Chelsea move amid Saudi Arabia transfers

Nottingham Forest have been made the bookies' favourite to sign Callum Hudson-Odoi as part of a summer exodus from Chelsea.

Forest were previously ranked at odds of 6/1, however over the weekend, Steve Cooper ’s side were priced up at 7/2 to bring the winger to the City Ground for a potential fee of £10m.

After a disappointing loan spell at Bayer Leverkusen, Chelsea are reportedly keen to sell Hudson-Odoi and the player is rumoured to want to prove himself back in the Premier League. Steve Cooper may have the upper hand in the battle to sign him with previous experience of working together at England Under-17s.

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Oddschecker spokesperson Leon Blackman said: “Despite a disappointing season in the Bundesliga, numerous Premier League clubs have reportedly expressed their interest in Chelsea’s Callum Hudson-Odoi.

"The betting market for this player had been quiet over the past month until a flurry of bets over the past week has seen Nottingham Forest become 7/2 favourites to sign him. This has been a popular bet with Oddschecker users, with 80 percent of bets in the last seven days backing Hudson-Odoi to swap London for Nottingham.”

Chelsea's squad is set for a huge shake up this summer following the appointment of Mauricio Pochettino. Kai Havertz has been linked to Arsenal and Real Madrid, while N'Golo Kante, Thiago Silva, Romelu Lukaku, Kalidou Koulibaly, Edouard Mendy and Hakim Ziyech have all been linked with moves to Saudi Arabia.

Kante, Koulibaly, Mendy and Ziyech in particular are reportedly set to join the Saudi league in the next few days as part of an astonishing cash injection by the Saudi government's Public Investment Fund.

When it comes to the Hudson Odoi odds, they are as follows: Nottm Forest 7/2, Fulham 4/1, Crystal Palace, 6/1, Newcastle and Aston Villa 12/1.

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