As the summer transfer deadline approaches, Chelsea and Manchester United battle for a wonderkid.

Chelsea transfer news: The Blues are set to face Manchester United and a host of other clubs for striker Dino Klapija this summer.

Chelsea will join Manchester United and many other European sides in the summer transfer window as they compete for striker wonderkid Dino Klapija.

There is just over a week left before the market closes and reopens in January, with clubs having to make last-minute inroads to bolster their squads. The Blues have already spent a lot of money under their new owner but show no signs of slowing down in the coming days.

Christopher Nkunku, Nicolas Jackson and Axel Disasi have taken early steps to join the west London squad, while efforts to strengthen the squad have intensified in recent weeks. Robert Sanchez arrived to bolster the goalkeeping ranks, while Romeo Lavia arrived from Southampton and Moises Caicedo found his way in a blockbuster £115million transfer from Brighton.

The recent strategy is to buy promising talents when they are young and develop them into the best in the world. This push should last until the deadline, as there are still a whole host of open goals for the first team and for the future.

According to the Daily Mail, the latest associated name is Kpija, a 16-year-old striker who has impressed among youngsters in recent years. The Blues aren’t the only team to follow him though, as Manchester United are another Premier League side in the hunt for a striker. Other European teams are also in talks, with Barcelona, ​​Juventus, AC Milan and RB Leipzig also considering a move. Klapija is a young Croatian international who finished his career at New York City FC before joining Dinamo Zagreb.

He has since left that position to join NK Kustosija at the academy, although the sides are currently changing and are ready to offer upwards of £5m for the youngster. It remains to be seen whether a concrete offer will be presented in the coming days as the deadline approaches, but it’s a move that certainly makes sense for Chelsea.

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Chelsea’s stance on bringing in a new striker has been confirmed by Mauricio Pochettino.

Chelsea have lost Christopher Nkunku to a knee injury
Armando Broja remains out after undergoing ACL surgery earlier this year
Nicolas Jackson has yet to score in the Premier League

Chelsea manager Mauricio Pochettino has confirmed that the Blues are still looking for a new striker before the transfer window closes.

The Blues made a key addition to their attacking line this summer in Christopher Nkunku, but lost the former RB Leipzig star, who scored 23 goals and nine assists in all competitions last season, to a knee injury during the summer.

To make matters worse, Chelsea are left without injured academy graduate Armando Broja, who tore his anterior cruciate ligament in December and is still working his way back.

Nicolas Jackson, another summer signing, has taken charge so far but is still awaiting his first Premier League goal, with 20-year-old Mason Burstow the only alternative.

With Chelsea’s scoring woes once again in full swing in Sunday’s 3-1 defeat at West Ham United, Pochettino took the opportunity post-match to admit the club are still looking for another striker. “It’s a difficult situation because we had two strikers in Nkunku and Broja, but they are injured,” Pochettino told talkSPORT.

“It’s not easy to find the right profile at the moment. We are working on it and working to see if we can add players in this area. But it is a task that is not easy for the club. Admittedly, they are working very hard to add players. “If that’s not possible, we’ll have to wait until Nkunku and Broja are ready and we’ll have help from Mason [Burstow].

“I don’t think the problem is that we need another striker. The chances we’ve created we need to be more lucid. It’s not just the forwards who need to be lucid in front of goal.”

90min understands that Pochettino will be given the choice of a shock return for Romelu Lukaku. The Belgian was left out of pre-season to go elsewhere but with limited options, Chelsea are willing to reinstate Lukaku, but would only do so with their manager’s blessing. It is currently believed that Pochettino is not interested.