{"id":6568,"date":"2026-06-01T17:01:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T17:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=6568"},"modified":"2026-06-01T17:01:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T17:01:51","slug":"romano-issues-update-amid-claims-chelsea-could-make-shock-move-for-116m-rated-player-alonso-loves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=6568","title":{"rendered":"Romano Issues Update Amid Claims Chelsea Could Make Shock Move For \u00a3116M Rated Player Alonso Loves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><strong>Chelsea are not expected to make a move for Liverpool attacking midfielder Florian Wirtz, according to journalist Fabrizio Romano.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The German international joined the Reds in a deal worth \u00a3116m last year, but he had previously worked under Blues boss Xabi Alonso at Bayer Leverkusen, and there were suggestions that the pair could be reunited at Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>However, speaking on his YouTube channel, Romano said that there is no chance that the player will be moving away from Anfield this summer:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFlorian Wirtz is not leaving Liverpool this summer. The relationship between Xabi Alonso and Florian Wirtz is excellent, of course. They won together and had a fantastic time together at Bayer Leverkusen, but that\u2019s it. There is nothing official, no talks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChelsea are not looking for that kind of player, and it\u2019s important to mention that Florian Wirtz remains an important part of Liverpool\u2019s squad. They believe that next season could be his season in red, so there\u2019s absolutely no movements around Florian Wirtz. Forget about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"sra_unit\"><link rel=\"stylesheet\" id=\"block-sra\" href=\"https:\/\/chelseanews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/snack-related-articles\/dist\/css\/snack-related.min.css?230424-120159\" type=\"text\/css\" media=\"all\"\/>\n<aside class=\"sra-group sra-related-list\">\n<h2 class=\"sra-group-head\">Most Read on Chelsea News<\/h2>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Rogers is a more likely target<\/h2>\n<p><smartframe-embed customer-id=\"84d65181a95c24c4fea73e44b4e27a17\" v=\"f216f6d5d0b6ef819f6e02bf8357cefd\" image-id=\"ltKDzvQPkGtv\" theme=\"iy-theme\" style=\"width: 100%; display: inline-flex; aspect-ratio: 1.602720114531138; max-width: 4478px;\"\/><!-- https:\/\/smartframe.io\/embedding-support --><br \/>While Romano says that the Blues are not pursuing an attacking midfielder, there are credible links to Aston Villa\u2019s Morgan Rogers.<\/p>\n<p>Co-Director of Recruitment and Talent Joe Shields knows the player well from his time at Manchester City, and a move for the England international can\u2019t be ruled out.<\/p>\n<p>Rogers would cost at least \u00a380m, which is likely to be considerably below what Wirtz\u2019s asking price is anyway. He can also be deployed wide on the left, which is a position that Alonso would like to strengthen.<\/p>\n<h2>Could Chelsea sign any other former Alonso players?<\/h2>\n<p>While the links to Wirtz may be baseless, some news outlets have suggested that there is interest in Leverkusen\u2019s Edmond Tapsoba.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the speculation a couple of weeks ago, the centre-back\u2019s agent <strong>did not close the door<\/strong> on a move to London.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more about the Chelsea First Team Squad for 2025\/26 here<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea are not expected to make a move for Liverpool attacking midfielder Florian Wirtz, according<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}