Chelsea keen on signing Lens wing-back Jonathan Clauss

The Chelsea club would be very interested in Jonathan Clauss’s profile. And this for more than a year, according to the Voice of the North. The regional daily adds that the player does not intend to extend to Lens, where he is under contract until 2023. A situation that opens the door to a departure

After a new fully successful exercise with the Racing Club of Lens, at the end of which he had a second rally with Les Bleus, Jonathan Clauss will have to decide the question of his future in the club. According to the Voix du Nord, Jonathan Clauss will not extend his contract, which ends in 2023, which opens the door to a departure this summer. RC Lens will probably not want to take the risk of seeing its player leave free in January.

A game system that suits him

According to our colleagues, RC Lens wants to obtain at least 10 million euros for its player, who became international this year and named best right-back in Ligue 1 two years in a row. If there are no offers on the table yet, the Voix du Nord evokes a strong interest from Chelsea

The English club has been following him for more than a year. In London, Jonathan Clauss could take over from César Azpilicueta and compete with Reece James in a three-defender game system that corresponds to his qualities.

Jonathan Clauss has had a journey as beautiful as it is tortuous, piercing at the highest level as he approaches his thirties. Passed through Raon-L’Etape, in the Vosges, the Alsatian only knew the elite when he arrived in Lens after experiments in Quevilly-Rouen, in Ligue 2, and at the Arminia Bielefeld in German D2. Jonathan Clauss became the 24th French international in the history of RC Lens at the March rally where he started against South Africa after a short appearance against Côte d’Ivoire

Very little used in the League of Nations in June – due in part to a system change to which he seems less suitable – Jonathan Clauss knows that a place in the World Cup will be played for him in the coming months. An important data to take into account when making a c