The Blues do have Mamadou Sarr<\/a> back in their ranks after recalling him from Strasbourg, with them sending Aaron Anselmino<\/a> to their fellow BlueCo club to replace him.<\/p>\n Complete our XI to face Arsenal! <\/p>\n \ud83d\udc47 Join the debate; share your insight. Use the comment button on the bottom left to have your say <\/p>\n By all accounts though, Chelsea<\/a> are keen to get back in the market to sign a new centre-back on a permanent basis when the summer transfer window opens.<\/p>\n A number of names are likely to be on their list. The likes of Antonio Silva and Ousmane Diomande have frequently been linked with a switch to Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n However, Simon Phillips<\/a> has reported that there is a new name on their shortlist, with that being Atalanta centre-back Giorgio Scalvini.<\/p>\n He said: \u201cA new name that we\u2019ve recently been told about. Eight caps for the Italian national side. Should be fairly attainable with a 2028 contract. 22-years-old.\u201d<\/p>\n At 22, the defender very much fits in the club\u2019s plans of signing younger players and developing them at Stamford Bridge<\/a>.<\/p>\n January transfer window review \ud83d\udc40 <\/p>\n How did Chelsea do?\ud83d\udc47<\/p>\n \ud83d\udc47 Join the debate; share your insight. Use the comment button on the bottom left to have your say <\/p>\n Who is Giorgio Scalvini?<\/p>\n An eight-time international for Italy, Scalvini is a regular in the Atalanta side when fit and firing.<\/p>\n He missed a long spell of the season due to injury, and was only fit enough to make the bench when the Blues were defeated by the Serie A side in the Champions League.<\/p>\n Scalvini played 90 minutes as his side somehow kept a clean sheet against Como at the weekend, despite Cesc Fabregas<\/a>\u2018 side registering more than 5xg.<\/p>\n Any move for a new centre-back is likely to see at least one of the current crop depart. The current favourite for that would be Tosin Adarabioyo<\/a> or Benoit Badiashile<\/a>.<\/p>\n Join Our Newsletter<\/p>\n Receive a digest of our best Chelsea content each week direct to your mailbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The centre-back position ended up dominating the final days of the January transfer window at Chelsea. After a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,185836,561,82],"class_list":["post-451898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-giorgio-scalvini","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Predicted-XI-2-819x1024.jpg\")
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