Chelsea stands close to the landing of Jamie Gittens for £ 55.5 million from Borussia Dortmund.
Both clubs, which are in the club World Cup in the United States, have been locked up in conversations for the past 48 hours and have to reach an agreement next week.
Gittens, 20, is ready to end his four -year -old Stint in Germany and return to the club where he was once part of the youth arrangement.
Chelsea hoped to secure the England Under-21 International for £ 50 million with add-ons, but the deal costs more.
Gittens struggled with illness and hardly played in the US.
The blues have already spent £ 1.4 billion to collect their current team, but club transfer leaders are desperate to bring their former youth star home.
Reports suggest that they have submitted a seven-year offer to seduce him into a Stamford Bridge return, despite a bid of £ 42 million that was rejected earlier this month.
Gittens – who changed his last name of Bynoe -Gittens on the advice of his father – enjoyed a Breakout season with Dortmund.
In 48 games in all matches before the Club World Cup, of which he started 34, the English youth star yielded 12 goals and added five assists.
In October, in 20 years and 75 days old, Gittens became the youngest English player who scored against Real Madrid in the Champions League.
Gittens joins the new Dortmund teammate Jobe Bellingham and Chelsea's Liam Delap in a list full of players who could not add to the Euros of England this summer.
Despite several high -profile absence, the young three lions have re -finished the euro final, where they hope to keep their title when they meet Germany on Saturday evening.
In the meantime, blues defender Tosin Adarabioyo is insisting that Cole Palmer can process the hype to be the “superstar” of the club.
The couple was friends in Manchester City, although Tosin is 27, four years older.
FIFA used Palmer's face on every poster that connects Blues' games to the Club World Cup, including the last 16 collision on Saturday with Benfica.
Tosin said: “I jerk him sometimes and tell him that he is a small superstar. But he treats it very well and he knows that his focus is on football.”