Chelsea will dig deep to take Mayra from Levante

Finalizing the details. As Relevo announced and this newspaper has been able to confirm, Mayra Ramírez (24 years old) aims to be Chelsea’s new forward in the next few hours. The Colombian forward, with a contract with Levante until 2025 and international with her national team, will leave the Granota club in the current winter market to fill the gap left in attack by the sensitive loss of Sam Kerr, who tore his cruciate ligament. knee at the beginning of January of this 2024. It will not do it at any price, since the Levantine entity will make Londoners scratch their pockets again…

It will not be the first time, since Chelsea already paid 350,000 euros in 2020 to incorporate Danish forward Pernille Harder, making this the most expensive signing in the history of the women’s soccer market. Furthermore, in this same winter window he overtook Real Madrid to acquire Nathalie Björn for a figure of around 120,000 pounds.

Now, after the serious injury of Sam Kerr, who this season had scored nine goals and given four assists in 12 games, he is moving again to incorporate one of the fittest and most promising forwards on the international scene: Mayra Ramírez.

Despite the cuts announced at Levante, the Granota club is not selling her at any price, but the transfer is close to being closed for a figure close to the most expensive transfer in the history of women’s football today (Keira Walsh, Barcelona , 400,000-450,000 euros), and could even reach number 1 in the ranking, according to sources consulted by AS.

The details of the operation are being finalized during the day this Tuesday, and the medical examination of a footballer who this season has scored six goals and given one in 12 games is also pending. Mayra Ramírez, who a few days ago said in this newspaper that her dream was to win titles in Europe and that she came to the Old Continent through Sporting Huelva (2020-22), is about to start a new path dressed in the Chelsea shirt , who tomorrow plays against Real Madrid on matchday 5 of the Champions group stage. If there is no change of course, the signing will become official in the next 48 hours.

What is already public is the loan of goalkeeper Andreea Paraluta (Romania, 1994) to Fortuna Hjorring of Denmark until the end of the season. The goalkeeper missed the entire 2022-23 campaign due to a torn cruciate ligament, while at present she had not yet participated. With Holmgren, María Valenzuela and Andrea Tarazona also available between the sticks, the high competition makes them go out in search of minutes.

Highly sought after players

“There are footballers who are worth ten times more than they were two years ago (…). If I am Pepe, I would sell…”, Sánchez Vera, who ends his contract in 2024, acknowledged to the press a few days ago. In addition to Mayra, the Granota coach was also aware of the great interest that players from his squad such as Alba Redondo are raising, on the agenda of teams from the United States, England, Italy or Spain (contract ends in 2024), or María Méndez (contract until 2025). However, the Levantine entity is demonstrating with the Colombian international that it will not sell at any price.

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