{"id":244805,"date":"2026-05-23T06:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T06:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/23\/xabi-alonso-wants-igor-thiago-at-chelsea\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T06:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T06:30:08","slug":"xabi-alonso-wants-igor-thiago-at-chelsea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/23\/xabi-alonso-wants-igor-thiago-at-chelsea\/","title":{"rendered":"Xabi Alonso wants Igor Thiago at Chelsea"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Chelsea<\/a> are plotting an audacious swoop to sign Igor Thiago from Brentford in the summer, as per Fussballdaten<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Four years into the Clearlake-led takeover of Chelsea and over a billion spent, nearly every area of Chelsea\u2019s squad needs reinforcement.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Following the appointment of Xabi Alonso, the club are gearing up for a new, yet crucial and significant stage of their rebuild as they look to return to Champions League<\/a> football at the end of next season.<\/span><\/p>\n

One area they\u2019re looking to add more quality to is their attack, with several names being linked, particularly in the centre-forward role, with Brentford\u2019s Thiago now being eyed.<\/span><\/p>\n

In all competitions this season, the 24-year-old has produced 26 goal contributions across 39 matches, placing him fourth in the standings for the European Golden Shoe behind Haaland, Kylian Mbapp\u00e9, and Harry Kane.<\/span><\/p>\n

This makes him an appealing option for several clubs, including Chelsea, according to Fussballdaten<\/em>, which claims that the club\u2019s new manager, Alonso, has made Thiago his priority for the next summer transfer<\/a> window.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The former Real Madrid<\/a> manager is looking to salvage the team\u2019s profligacy in attack by adding a prolific forward, with the Brentford man now being chased, the report adds.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, with a contract running until 2031, a deal won\u2019t be easy, with the report adding that Chelsea will need to cough up to \u00a369m for Brentford to consider his sale in the summer.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no objection to Thiago\u2019s exceptional level of finishing. Still, it is worth noting that this is his only outstanding season in England, and playing for a club of Chelsea\u2019s calibre comes with a different pressure and expectations.<\/span><\/p>\n

At Chelsea, he would regularly come up against compact defensive blocks on a weekly basis, something he is not consistently encountering at Brentford, where they are frequently afforded opportunities to attack on the counter and exploit transitions against opposition teams.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nevertheless, with Joao Pedro also in a strong, prolific form and an even more all-around player, the pressure on Thiago could reduce, as the goal-scoring burden would be shared should he join the Blues.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Chelsea are plotting an audacious swoop to sign Igor Thiago from Brentford in the summer, as per Fussballdaten. Four years into the Clearlake-led takeover of Chelsea and over a billion spent, nearly every area of Chelsea\u2019s squad needs reinforcement. Following the appointment of Xabi Alonso, the club are gearing up for a new, yet crucial […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":244806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6807],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-244805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leagues-cups"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}