Ben Jacobs reverses Chelsea transfer rumour as selling club push wantaway star towards Stamford Bridge | OneFootball

Yesterday we reported on an exclusive from a West Ham site which was all about the increasingly talked about links between Chelsea and their erstwhile star player Mohammed Kudus.

That exclusive claimed that Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, Robert Sanchez, Carney Chukwuemeka, Tosin Adarabioyo and Trevoh Chalobah were all offered to the Hammers as potential makeweights to balance a cash plus player deal for Kudus.

Chelsea insider claims West Ham interested in 2 Blues

Robert Sanchez with a Chelsea News logo. (Photo by Ryan Hiscott/Getty Images)

But today Ben Jacobs, who we suspect is better plugged into the details in this case, has flipped things around. He says that it’s not Chelsea who offered the players but West Ham who were interested in them being thrown in.

The list is not 5 either, it’s just Sanchez and Dewsbury-Hall.

Jacobs says these are “not players Chelsea are looking to offload,” which is rather curious as we suspect most Blues fans you ask would be pretty happy to see them depart.

In general, Jacobs throws cold water on the deal of the deal, saying it’s “more a discussion than a negotiation at this stage,” and that it’s “unclear if anything will develop.”

Kudus deal doesn’t past smell test for various reasons

In general, we have to say this whole deal sounds suspiciously like West Ham and Kudus’ agents trying to ramp up interest in their client. He clearly wants to leave and the club have accepted that it’s best to sell him – it’s just a question of drumming up interest and making him seem in demand.

Chelsea would take him if the opportunity was too good to turn down, but it doesn’t really smell like a move which fits particularly with the project, and it would have to be a very opportunistic move for them to be tempted.