Why Chelsea won't be signing Leroy Sane anytime soon

Stefan Bienkowski

• Updated: 28 Sep 2021 13:34 CDT
• 3 min read

While Chelsea undoubtedly have one of the best squads in all of European football, the club’s recent defeat to Manchester City underlined where the club can make improvements in January.

As such, the European champions have been linked with a number of stars from around Europe’s biggest clubs. And one player that continues to be linked with a move to Stamford Bridge is Leroy Sane.

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The Bayern Munich forward has been linked with a return to England since he left the country in 2020, with a reported swap deal with Chelsea for forward Timo Werner apparently on the cards.

However, despite what seems like a reasonable assumption on paper, it remains highly unlikely that such a move would ever go through.

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He’s not good enough for Chelsea

For a start, there’s very little to suggest that Sane would be an immediate improvement on any of the options Chelsea currently have out wide.

For example, Tuchel can currently call up Hakim Ziyech, Callum Hudso-Odoi, Christian Pulisic, Timo Werner and Kai Havertz to play on either wing and if he plays his preferred formation of a back three with wing-backs, the Chelsea manager can also use Ben Chilwell and Reece James as his wide threat.

Add to that the simple fact that Sane hasn’t quite shown a consistent degree of top-level form in about two seasons, and it makes very little sense to suggest that the German international could step into Chelsea’s squad and replace any of the aforementioned stars.

He’s a long-term project for Bayern

Despite Sane’s struggles in Bavaria, there is an understanding from the club over the player’s situation.

Bayern signed Sane after he spent an entire season out injured with a nasty injury and while some fans may now be getting on his back, the club appreciates that the quick winger is still recovering from his injury.

As such, Sane has been afforded a huge degree of patience with the Bundesliga giants because they know that in time he’ll begin to look like the player that once scored goals for fun and won games for Manchester City with relative ease.

That patience is undoubtedly beginning to pay off this season, with the forward scoring three goals and providing six assists in his last nine games for the Bavarian giants.

Any suggestion that the club would then sell Sane before he’s even returned to full match fitness seems nothing short of farfetched.