New Chelsea owner Todd Boehly is looking to complete a triple Man City transfer swoop involving all of Raheem Sterling, Nathan Ake and Oleksandr Zinchenko with the latter of the trio potentially have a big impact on Arsenal and one full-back in particular.
Both London clubs are looking to add key defensive acquisitions to their backline in this summer's transfer window, Chelsea more so than Arsenal with numerous big players like Antonio Rudiger and Andreas Christensen already gone and with more projected to follow suit. Consequently, a large part of the £200milllion transfer budget that Boehly has set aside for Thomas Tuchel's defensive rebuild will be spent on new recruits in the backline. Juventus' Matthijs de Ligt, Sevilla's Jules Kounde and Man City's Ake are prime candidates to make the switch to join the Boehly revolution.
In the full-back areas though, City's number 6 has the capacity to play full-back, it is understood that various wing-back options will be considered before a final decision is made on who could potentially replace the likes of Marcos Alonso and Emerson Palmieri if both were to seal their ideal moves this summer amid strong Barcelona and Lazio links. Jonathan Clauss is someone who would be available at a mere £10m which would seem appealing to the new board who need to spend funds smartly with other areas of the pitch subject to improvement amid strong Raheem Sterling transfer rumours.
