Chelsea is preparing to launch a bid to sign West Ham midfielder the Declan Rice in the final week of the window. Standard Sport understands Frank Lampard is ready to address their problems in defense, but will have to act quickly with the window offers the Premier League clubs between closing a week today.
Blues left themselves a mountain to climb on Saturday when defensive errors Marcos Alonso and new signing Thiago Silva left them 3-0 down within half an hour at West Brom. Lampard has added Ben Chilwell and goalkeeper Edouard Mendy and Silva, but long been an admirer of Rice – although West Ham insist he is not for sale, the Manager David Moyes had warned it would take “bank England “money for an agreement to carry out