da dobrowin: According to reports in the Daily Mail, Chelsea have launched a £25m offer for Arsenal midfielder Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.
da bet sport: Blues boss Antonio Conte is keen to provide competition for Marcos Alonso and Victor Moses in the wing-back positions and he sees the 23-year-old – who played on the left in the Community Shield win against the Premier League holders at Wembley on Sunday but has mainly featured on the right – as the man to answer his problem.
Oxlade-Chamberlain has just one year remaining on his Gunners contract and is yet to come close to signing a new one, but the Daily Mail says that Arsenal have rejected the initial advances of their London rivals despite the fact that they could lose the England international for nothing in 2018.
Chelsea supporters were quick to have their say on the rumour via social media, and they were largely divided with their opinions.
While some are hoping that they story is true as they feel he would be a good addition, others feel that “Moses is better” and that Oxlade-Chamberlain would be a “waste of money”.
Here is just a selection of the Twitter reaction…