Report names price Fulham must pay to sign Chelsea’s Lucas Piazon

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Championship high-flyers Fulham were priced out of a move for Chelsea forward Lucas Piazon last summer, but will the Premier League giants sell now?

Lucas Piazon has been a Chelsea player now for seven years. In that time, he has managed a grand total of three first-team appearances.

If anyone is a victim of the club’s much-criticised strategy of stockpiling young talent and sending them out on a series of loans with no real chance of a future in the Chelsea first-team, it is the now-24-year-old Brazilian.

But according to the Telegraph, there is a chance that Piazon’s long Stamford Bridge purgatory could be brought to an end this summer. It is understood that a number of fringe players face uncertain futures in West London, with Piazon among them.

Chelsea would expect to make around £10 million. Ironically, that is the same fee that Chelsea paid when signing an 18-year-old Piazon from Sao Paolo.

It remains to be seen, however, whether Fulham would be willing to pay £10 million to keep the attacking midfielder at Craven Cottage following a second loan spell with the Championship high-flyers.

The versatile forward has scored five goals and set up four more for Slavisa Jokanovic’s promotion-chasers but he has started just 13 league games and, for that fee, would become the sixth most expensive player in Fulham’s history.

Interestingly, fellow Chelsea youngster Tomas Kalas told CT Sport last summer that Chelsea had priced Fulham out of permanent moves for him and Piazon, who also spent the 2016/17 season at Craven Cottage.

Will history repeat itself?