Fabrizio Romano via YouTube.
One Premier League club have ignited their pursuit of a Manchester United target.
Midway through the season, the Red Devils revived their interest in Chelsea’s Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall after initially targeting him during his final season with Leicester City.
The Blues ultimately splashed the cash to sign him from the Foxes in a £30 million transfer, tying him down to a six-year deal before, bizarrely, granting him a heavily reduced role in the squad throughout his maiden campaign.
Why Dewsbury-Hall’s Chelsea tenure is coming to a premature end
Dewsbury-Hall made only two Premier League starts in total across 2024/2025 and was instead utilised mostly in the UEFA Conference League, where he started 11 matches of Chelsea’s 13-game route to lifting the trophy.
However, after playing nine full 90s in the campaign, including every minute of the last-16, quarters and semi-final stages, the midfielder would go on to feature for just 10 minutes in the final, during which Enzo Maresca opted for his first-choice starting XI against Real Betis.
While Dewsbury-Hall will leave Chelsea with a European trophy and Club World Cup winners’ medal to his name, he must be looking back at his decision to leave his boyhood club – immediately after they’d secured promotion back to the top flight – for Stamford Bridge with regret.
United were linked with Dewsbury-Hall as recently as last season
United were among Dewsbury-Hall’s suitors back in the winter window, but they opted against making a formal approach. If anything, a loan was the most likely route they’d have taken, given the lack of funds at the time.
It also remains to be seen if they would reconsider an approach this summer after learning of his availability. If so, they’d better act quickly, as Fabrizio Romano confirmed just before noon today that Everton have ‘submitted [an] official bid’ for the 26-year-old in hopes of allowing him to revive his stagnant form in a completely new environment.
