🚨JUST IN: Chelsea BAN Trevoh Chalobah from the first-team building at their training ground and send him and two other stars to train with the kids – as £54m Pedro Neto prepares to arrive
Chelsea’s Trevoh Chalobah has reportedly been banned from using Chelsea’s first-team training facilities as the club try to facilitate a move for the defender.
Blues academy graduate Chalobah, 25, was excluded from their travelling squad to the United States this summer, with the club looking to sell the central defender.
Chalobah had been training at Cobham under new head coach Enzo Maresca, but was left at home, with the likes of Wesley Fofana, Axel Disasi, Tosin Adarabioyo, Benoit Badiashile and Levi Colwill preferred by the Italian.
Mail Sport reported last month how Chalobah, who joined Chelsea at the age of eight and has made 80 appearances for the club, feels he is being forced out of Stamford Bridge.
And, according to The Telegraph, along with training with Chelsea’s development squad, Chalobah has also been kept away from the first-team facilities at Cobham.
The report goes on to say that Chalobah will remain at the academy building at the club’s Cobham training ground until he agrees to a move away, with the 25-year-old having not been seen around the first team since they returned from the US earlier this week.
The defender has been joined by fellow Blues academy graduate Armando Broja and Romelu Lukaku in the Under 21s, with Chelsea also looking to move on those two strikers this summer.
It is believed that Chelsea believe this is the best way to deal with unwanted players who have no future at the club, allowing them to focus on a move, rather than giving them false hope.
Conor Gallagher was dealt a similar fate before he agreed to join Atletico Madrid for £33.7million.
The report claims Aston Villa and Crystal Palace are interested in a move for Chalobah, who rejected a transfer to Nottingham Forest last summer.
He spent much of the season injured, but fought his way back into Mauricio Pochettino’s plans towards the end of the campaign and made 17 appearances in total.
Meanwhile, it is believed that Chalobah, who still has four years left to run on the contract he signed in November 2022, has acted professionally throughout the saga, with the club having slapped a £25m price tag on his head.
Elsewhere, Broja was part of the US pre-season tour, but struggled for gametime and has interest from clubs in the Premier Leauge and overseas.
Meanwhile, Lukaku could reunite with Antonio Conte at Napoli, but Chelsea are believed to want any suitor to meet his £37.8m release clause, which could scupper interest.
The news about Chalobah comes as Chelsea are closing in on the £54m arrival of Pedro Neto from Wolves, while they continue their pursuit of Atletico striker Samu Omorodion.