Chelsea identify £87m striker to sign for Maresca

The Premier League westbound London nine has identified centre-forward arsenic a precedence to bolster their manager Enzo Maresca’s squad.

Nicolas Jackson has been blowing blistery and acold crossed his 2 opening years astatine Stamford Bridge, portion Christopher Nkunku has besides flattered to deceive since arriving from RB Leipzig.

According to Portuguese outlet Record, Chelsea has been alerted to Pavlidis’ goalscoring exploits astatine Benfica and views the attacker arsenic a subordinate who could vie with Jackson up front.

Pavlidis has established himself arsenic 1 of the apical attacking talents successful the Portuguese top-flight league.

The 26-year-old has managed 24 goals successful each competitions for Benfica.

He has besides scored 7 UEFA Champions League goals this season.

However, Chelsea could look stiff contention from Newcastle United, Barcelona, and Atletico Madrid if they are to measurement up their pursuit of Pavlidis successful the coming weeks.