Chelsea take first step towards bombshell deal for Liverpool star

Chelsea are hoping to push forward on a deal for one Liverpool star. They've made the first steps at Xabi Alonso's request.

Liverpool don’t do many deals with Chelsea but there have been a few over the years. Maybe the most successful to Anfield was Daniel Sturridge in 2013.

Though, depending on how you categorise it, Rio Ngumoha may end up being the no.1. Liverpool signed him as a youth player so not technically a transfer, but he’s the latest star to play in the Reds’ first-team having joined from Chelsea.

But what about going the other way? Liverpool have sold three players to the Blues in the Premier League era, the first being Yossi Benayoun in 2010.

In fact, strangely, all three deals came within a span of 13 months. The biggest was Fernando Torres, following Benayoun for a British transfer record fee in January 2011. Raul Meireles then moved the following summer for a lot less money.

Since then? Nothing. But Chelsea hope to change that.

Chelsea take first step towards Florian Wirtz

TeamTalk reports that Chelsea feel there’s an opportunity to sign Florian Wirtz. The German hasn’t reached the heights people expected since joining Liverpool in 2025 and there’s certainly an easy link to the Blues.

Wirtz’s peak form came under Xabi Alonso at Bayer Leverkusen. He was a two-time player of the year under the Spaniard, winning the Bundesliga. Alonso would quite like to work with him again and has apparently instructed Chelsea to start the process.

That just means keeping tabs on the situation for now, and there haven’t been any formal moves. But the expectation is that Chelsea are just waiting for any kind of signal that Liverpool would be willing to do business.

It should go without saying but it would be monumentally stupid for Liverpool to entertain that. There’s no question that Wirtz hasn’t lived up to expectations just yet, but that’s been in a struggling team that doesn’t seem fit for him.

That’s starting to change and we’ve seen a real rise in his influence over the last few weeks. It’s just not the time to let go.

Not to mention the fact that Wirtz probably does fulfil his potential at Chelsea when working under Alonso. It would be a deal that weakens Liverpool with the potential to enormously strengthen a rival - that’s not really worth the money.

So while Chelsea will take every step they can towards this deal, the Reds shouldn’t ever pick up the phone.