{"id":37942,"date":"2026-01-16T21:55:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T02:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2026\/01\/16\/chelsea-see-arsenal-and-manchester-united-as-rivals-over-e30m-wonderkid-transfer\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T21:55:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T02:55:40","slug":"chelsea-see-arsenal-and-manchester-united-as-rivals-over-e30m-wonderkid-transfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2026\/01\/16\/chelsea-see-arsenal-and-manchester-united-as-rivals-over-e30m-wonderkid-transfer\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea see Arsenal and Manchester United as rivals over \u20ac30m wonderkid transfer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\">\n<!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chelsea are set to compete with the likes of Arsenal and Manchester United over the potential transfer of Rennes centre-back Jeremy Jacquet.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As reported in the Daily Briefing, we heard in January that the Blues were looking to sign a new defensive player and added Jaquet to their target list.<\/p>\n<p>The highly-rated young Frenchman is thought to be on the radar of Arsenal, with Manchester United also monitoring him.<\/p>\n<p>Jacquet could leave Rennes for around 30 million euros and it seems inevitable that he will quickly earn a move to a bigger club, especially with that cheap fee.<\/p>\n<h2>Jeremy Jaquet will have his choice of top Premier League clubs<\/h2>\n<p>If he ends up receiving offers from all three teams &#8211; Chelsea, Arsenal and Man United &#8211; then Jaquet will have to make a choice.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rennes&#8217; Jeremy Jacquet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>All three clubs are big names in soccer, but each move will have different positives and negatives.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal are currently the most competitive team, with Mikel Arteta&#8217;s side leading the Premier League standings by six points and generally looking like one of the best teams in Europe at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>Still, with the presence of William Saliba and Gabriel Magalh\u00e3es, Jaquet may struggle to play regularly for the Gunners, so it may not be the best move for his development.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea are quite reliable when it comes to giving opportunities to young players, so Stamford Bridge could become quite attractive.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Liam Rosenior knows Jaquet well from his days in Ligue 1, but Chelsea&#8217;s project has been a bit of a hot topic of late due to frequent managerial changes.<\/p>\n<p>United, on the other hand, should also be able to give Jaquet a key role, but with further managerial changes and uncertainty over what the situation will be like at Old Trafford this summer, they are probably even more in turmoil than Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Article End -->\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea are set to compete with the likes of Arsenal and Manchester United over the potential transfer of Rennes centre-back Jeremy Jacquet. As reported in the Daily Briefing, we heard in January that the Blues were looking to sign a new defensive player and added Jaquet to their target list. The highly-rated young Frenchman is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[40],"class_list":{"0":"post-37942","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}