The English club are interested in the 28-year-old goalkeeper for next season. Chelsea would like to strengthen their squad by recruiting a goalkeeper following the decline in form noted at Kepa Arrizabalaga.
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His good performances with Stade Rennais make him one of the best goalkeepers in Ligue 1. For his first season with the Bretons, he played 24 matches in Ligue 1, made 9 clean sheets and conceded 19 goals. He has 95% on the duels won in total and 100% in the air duel won, his half-pass accuracy is 87% and 48% for long balls. The former resident of Reims played greatly in the good season of the Rouge et Noir who finished in 3rd place in the standings with only 8 games lost.
Born in France, the porter of the Lions de la Téranga has only known the French championship so far. But Edouard Mendy was on Chelsea’s radar before joining Reims for an undisclosed amount last summer, as confirmed by the former Stade Rennais goalkeeper coach who currently serves at Chelsea.
“He has reached maturity, with a rather unusual course, and that is all the more meritorious. Edouard Mendy is today, for me, the best goalkeeper in the French championship. That’s what I call a proactive, very influential goalie who doesn’t suffer from the game. Reims did a really good job with him. Maybe at OM they couldn’t detect the talent he had in him, but maybe it wasn’t the right time too. In any case, he is a great goalkeeper that we necessarily follow in the Premier League. When you are almost 2 meters (1m97) away, with such a play on the ground, such a positioning and such a taking of initiative that he, if the recruiters do not look at him, it is because they have to change jobs (laughs) “ said Christophe Lollichon last year.
The time has come for Mendy, whose discussions have begun with Chelsea. Frank Lampard is currently studying several files but the sale prices are sometimes inaccessible for the Blues. It is not yet known with the season which awaits Stade Rennais with the Champions League, if the French club would be ready to sell one of its key players. But to this player, all Chelsea fans are discovering Edouard Mendy.
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