“A desire to actively leave Chelsea” means this player will be gone very soon | OneFootball

Chelsea have a few attacking players on their books and are looking to sign more. Some of the players they’ve got are clearly not performing, and will have to be let go before any new faces can arrive to give Graham Potter’s squad the strengthening it desperately needs come January.

So when it comes to balancing up which ones to let go and which to keep, the club are likely to dump whichever of the players is keener to go.

In this case, that clearly seems to be Hakim Ziyech. CaughtOffside cite quotes from Italy where it’s claimed that Ziyech has “wanted to leave for  while” after falling out of favour with Thomas Tuchel last summer.

They go as far as to say that the Morocco star has “a desire to actively leave Chelsea.” If that’s true, we can’t see us looking to keep him around once a replacement is secure. Others, like Christian Pulisic, may have to wait until the summer.