{"id":294690,"date":"2025-12-02T10:29:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T10:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/294690\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T10:29:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T10:29:15","slug":"chelsea-already-have-potential-plan-in-place-to-sign-manchester-united-defender-leny-yoro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/294690\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea already have potential plan in place to sign Manchester United defender Leny Yoro"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There is a possibility that Chelsea and Manchester United could be set to do more business with each other.<\/p>\n<p>In the summer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechelseachronicle.com\/club\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chelsea<\/a> signed Alejandro Garnacho from United, and it appears that they now have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechelseachronicle.com\/tag\/leny-yoro\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leny Yoro<\/a> on their radar.<\/p>\n<p>Back in February, it had already been claimed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechelseachronicle.com\/transfer-news\/chelsea-want-to-sign-special-manchester-united-talent-this-summer-its-not-alejandro-garnacho-or-kobbie-mainoo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chelsea were eyeing Yoro<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing happened in the previous transfer window, but the Blues could make a move for the central defender in the future.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-2198434402-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Leny Yoro of Manchester United during the Emirates FA Cup Fourth Round match between Manchester United and Leicester City\" class=\"wp-image-279008\" \/>Photo by James Gill \u2013 Danehouse\/Getty ImagesChelsea could offer players to Manchester United for Leny Yoro<\/p>\n<p>According to journalist Simon Phillips, nothing is imminent, with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechelseachronicle.com\/tag\/club-world-cup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Club World Cup<\/a> winners not planning to make an immediate swoop for Yoro.<\/p>\n<p>However, Phillips has also claimed on <a href=\"https:\/\/siphillipstalkschelsea.substack.com\/p\/exclusive-chelsea-looking-at-manchester?r=2sgv33&amp;utm_medium=ios&amp;triedRedirect=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Si Phillips Talks Chelsea<\/a> that the Blues could try to do something \u201clater down the line\u201d and are likely to offer players to United to help facilitate a deal.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea are not exactly light in the centre-back positions right now. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechelseachronicle.com\/tag\/enzo-maresca\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Enzo Maresca<\/a> currently has Wesley Fofana, Trevoh Chalobah, Benoit Badiashile, Tosin Adarabioyo and Josh Acheampong to call upon.<\/p>\n<p>When he is back from his ACL injury, Levi Colwill will also be an option for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechelseachronicle.com\/club\/manager\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chelsea head coach<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechelseachronicle.com\/tag\/uefa-conference-league\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Conference League<\/a> holders still appear to be admirers of Yoro and seem to be watching him.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-2235945780-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Chelsea's Brazilian striker Joao Pedro battles for the ball with Manchester United's French defender Leny Yoro\" \/>Photo by OLI SCARFF\/AFP via Getty ImagesWhere Leny Yoro excels<\/p>\n<p>If Chelsea do go on to sign Yoro at some point, they will be acquiring a central defender who is great at carrying the ball.<\/p>\n<p>Bringing the ball out of defence is one of the French youngster\u2019s biggest strengths, which is reflected in his stats.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/6763f716\/Leny-Yoro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">FBref<\/a>, Yoro makes 1.63 progressive carries per 90 minutes, putting him in the 94th percentile among centre-backs.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, the 20-year-old has a lot of potential and fits Chelsea\u2019s profile. However, it would be a big surprise if they went on to sign him.<\/p>\n<p>Yoro is not in the same situation as Garnacho was. The France Under-21 international is not someone United are looking to sell. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is a possibility that Chelsea and Manchester United could be set to do more business with each&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,3937,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-294690","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-leny-yoro","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}