Chelsea scouts are eyeing up Borna Sosa as they continue to look for a LWB for this summer, according to Adam Newson from Football London.
Sosa was linked with a £25m January move to Chelsea but it never came to anything, Chelsea scouts have been watched him as recently as this month and could potentially be a future Chelsea Player, just my opinion, but I think we would need to offload Marcos Alonso or Emerson first.
Stuttgart, threatened with relegation, could be forced to sell for even cheaper than £25m if relegation occurs, so, some would think should Chelsea be spending money on a LWB that’s played at LB but yet to be tested, well Adam Newson goes into more detail…
“Borna Sosa’s said that David Beckham is his role model, and I think he has the same qualities. He puts in crosses from every angle: sometimes chipped, sometimes drilled, sometimes flat, sometimes in behind, sometimes to the front post, other times to the back post.”
VfB Stuttgart sporting director Sven Mislintat told Bild last season.
Sosa enjoyed a breakout 2020/21 campaign, his first in the Bundesliga. He helped newly-promoted Stuttgart to a ninth-place finish and contributed nine assists in 26 appearances from left wing-back or left midfield.
Adam Newson goes onto say that there are mitigating factors as to why Sosa’s output has tailed off, The first being that Stuttgart’s Sasa Kalajdzic, the 6ft 7ins striker who netted 17 Bundesliga goals last season, has played just 287 minutes this term. Fellow striker Nicolas Gonzalez, meanwhile, departed for Fiorentina in the summer transfer window.
Since the start of the 2020/21 campaign, per wyscout, Sosa has registered 3.7 dribbles attempted and 6.9 crosses attempted per 90. Often, he gets the ball in space, drives forward and delivers a dangerous cross. That he can do this from a variety of angles makes it hugely difficult for an opposition full-back to stop.
In the Bundesliga this season, Sosa has averaged just 1.58 tackles and interceptions per 90, a figure well below that of Chilwell (2.67). He is also not as effective aerially as the former Leicester defender, who wins 55% of the three aerial duels per 90 he attempts compared to 45% of Sosa’s 1.46 per 90.
Sosa however backs himself by simply saying “ I wouldn’t call it a weakness because I just haven’t done much of it “ he grew up in Dinamo, Croatia and there mentality is to always attack and win, you’d think especially under Thomas Tuchel, that he would have to be more disciplined.
It’s a story we will be following here at ChelseaFC365, and we will keep you updated with any further developments.
