Chelsea boss, Antonio Conte, is rumoured to be interested in signing Ghanaian international and Red Star Belgrade striker Richmond Boakye.<\/p>\n
According to\u00a0GhanaSoccernet<\/em>, the news has been confirmed by a \u201ccredible Stamford Bridge source.\u201d<\/p>\n Boakye, 24, has enjoyed an impressive start this season, scoring 10 goals and providing three assists in 16 appearances with Red Star Belgrade.<\/p>\n Scouts on their way<\/strong><\/p>\n Conte already knows Boakye, as the Ghanaian signed for Juventus in 2012, where he played a single game and scored one goal.<\/p>\n Before leaving La Vecchia Signora in 2014, the striker was loaned to Sassuolo in 2012 and to Elche in 2013.<\/p>\n According to\u00a0GhanaSoccernet<\/em>\u2019s report, it is understood that Chelsea will send a scout to watch Boakye in both Red Star Belgrade\u2019s Europa League matches against Arsenal on October 19 and November 2, respectively in Belgrade and London.<\/p>\n Only in 2017, Boakye has scored 30 goals. It\u2019s been said that the quality of his scoring has made him one of the deadliest strikers in world football.<\/p>\n From free transfer to \u00a310m<\/strong><\/p>\n Earlier this year, Boakye\u2019s parent club, Serie B side Latina, went into bankruptcy. They were forced to give away their players for free.<\/p>\n The striker joined Red Star Belgrade, team on which he has shown some impressive performances.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen I was young like around my 20\u2019s everybody was saying that I have talent,\u201d he told Pulse Ghana Sports earlier this month.<\/p>\n \u201cIn football we have ups and downs. Sometimes it happens and I sat down and analyzed certain things that I realized was wrong with me.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen I went to Latina, unfortunately, I got a groin problem which took me out for four to 5 months.<\/p>\n \u201cI just put my bad fortunes aside and put things in place with my personal advisor Sharaj Ahmed and we came with a solution.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is what is working for me now and I am following that trend.\u201d<\/p>\n Now, the striker who is currently on Ghana duty, has a \u00a310m valuation. For this price, it would be rare if the Belgrade squad tries to block a Chelsea move.<\/p>\n \u2013<\/p>\n Source: AS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chelsea boss, Antonio Conte, is rumoured to be interested in signing Ghanaian international and Red Star Belgrade striker Richmond Boakye. According to\u00a0GhanaSoccernet, the news has been confirmed by a \u201ccredible Stamford Bridge source.\u201d Boakye, 24, has enjoyed an impressive start this season, scoring 10 goals and providing three assists in 16 appearances with Red Star […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[850,851,3],"class_list":["post-361297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-boakye-yiadom","tag-chelsea","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=361297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=361297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=361297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=361297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}