Romeo Lavia is THE revelation of the start of the Premier League season. The 18-year-old Belgian midfielder left Manchester City in early July to find playing time at Southampton, who sniffed the right shot with a 12 million euro transfer.
Less than two months later, and especially two days after Lavia’s goal against Chelsea, the Blues attempted an approach to buy our compatriot on the last day of the transfer window, according to well-informed Fabrizio Romano. A verbal offer of 58 million euros was even made to Southampton, which refused.
As a reminder, nothing prevents a player from being transferred twice in the same transfer window. On the other hand, it is forbidden to wear the jersey of three different clubs during the same season.
Never mind, Southampton refused this approach. And for good reason: Manchester City has a buyout clause of 46 million euros for the player trained in Anderlecht. Despite the Belgian’s recent injurysomething tells us that this clause has a good chance of being activated in a few months…