Chelsea considering AZ winger Dembélé


By dixon9
June 13 2009

Chelsea are reportedly looking at young Belgian winger Moussa Dembélé with a surprisingly high fee quoted at £15million. Dembélé won the Dutch league with Louis Van Gaal in an impressive season for the 21-year-old. Juventus and Sevilla are also said to be interested.

Dembélé began his professional career with K.F.C. Germinal Beerschot playing his first match at just 16 years of age.

In 2005 he moved to Willem II Tilburg, playing in the Eredivisie and scored 9 goals despite the club having a bad season.

At 19, after interest from Holland’s top clubs such as Ajax, Dembélé signed for AZ Alkmaar in the 2006 season when Van Gaal cited the youngster as one of his most important players.

Dembele, AZ Alkmaar

During the 2008/2009 season, Dembélé was enjoying an excellent season but then was out injured from October until December with a knee injury.  After returning to play, Dembélé continued with very good performances and ended the campaign with 10 goals.

Dembélé began his full international career for Belgian in October 2006.  His career to-date stats are 39 goals in 114 matches.  Arsenal coach Wenger has also previously tried to sign him.

Could this mean Chelsea are considering offloading Kalou?

Chelsea considering AZ winger Dembélé
Posted by: 50 Years Over 100 Years (IP Logged)
Date: 13/06/2009 21:28

What do you think? You can have your say by posting below.
If you do not already have an account Click here to Register.

We record all IP addresses on the Sportnetwork message boards which may be required by the authorities in case of defamatory or abusive comment. We seek to monitor the Message Boards at regular intervals. We do not associate Sportnetwork with any of the comments and do not take responsibility for any statements or opinions expressed on the Message Boards. If you have any cause for concern over any material posted here please let us know as soon as possible by e-mailing abuse@sportnetwork.net