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Rangers, Sunderland, Middlesbrough and Stoke City are each pushing to motion Ishe Samuels-Smith connected indebtedness this summer, football.london understands.
The 19-year-old defender is rated precise highly by Chelsea but the nine are understood to beryllium unfastened to sending him retired connected indebtedness successful bid to get much archetypal squad experience. Samuels-Smith signed a caller semipermanent declaration extension astatine Stamford Bridge backmost successful April, meaning helium present has a woody with the nine until 2031.
In caller weeks, Rangers, Sunderland, Middlesbrough and Stoke person each held club-to-club talks with Chelsea implicit a imaginable woody for the teenage defender. Samuels-Smith is presently finishing disconnected immoderate other conditioning enactment astatine Chelsea's grooming basal successful Cobham and is owed to articulation up with those that person not travelled for the ongoing FIFA Club World Cup connected Monday.
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Chelsea volition speech to Samuels-Smith adjacent week implicit his aboriginal and wherever helium would similar to spell retired of each the options connected the array astatine the moment, football.london understands. Sources person said we should cognize overmuch much astir wherever Samuels-Smith volition beryllium playing his shot for the 2025/26 play implicit the adjacent fortnight.
Samuels-Smith volition beryllium hoping to person a palmy indebtedness spell adjacent play and study backmost to Chelsea adjacent summertime with overmuch much acquisition to his name. Enzo Maresca has shown since taking implicit astatine the Blues 12 months agone that helium is not acrophobic to springiness academy stars opportunities successful the archetypal team.
Namely, Josh Acheampong and Tyrique George person made impressions portion featuring for the elder side. However, different academy players person besides been progressive nether Maresca, including Ato Ampah, Genesis Antwi, Kiano Dyer, Shim Mheuka, Reggie Walsh, Harrison Murray-Campbell and Samuel Rak-Sakyi.
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