乾燥した，日照りのs Mertens could やめる Napoli for Chelsea while on the brink of 存在 their highest-ever scorer... and if that doesn't endear him to Blues fans, he once 予定するd Liverpool folklore, too!

  • 乾燥した，日照りのs Mertens has 118 goals for Napoli - three off Marek Hamsik's 記録，記録的な／記録する
  • But with six months to go on his 取引，協定, a move to Chelsea could be on the cards
  • At 32, he is different to what Lampard has worked with but could be a real クーデター?

By Jack Bezants for MailOnline

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Chelsea's 緊急発進する for attacking 増強s has taken them to Italy, where they are in 会談 with Napoli over a move for Belgium 今後 乾燥した，日照りのs Mertens.

The 32-year-old is 利用できる on 削減（する）-price 条件 - around £5m - after entering the final six months of his 契約 at Napoli, where he has played since 2013.

Mertnes is diminutive in stature, standing at only 5ft 7in, but technically is one of more astute 攻撃者s on the continent.

Dries Mertens could leave Napoli in January with Chelsea lining up a late move for him

乾燥した，日照りのs Mertens could leave Napoli in January with Chelsea lining up a late move for him?

Mertens has scored 118 goals for Napoli and is three behind all-time scorer Marek Hamsik

Mertens has 得点する／非難する／２０d 118 goals for Napoli and is three behind かつてない scorer Marek Hamsik

The 32-year-old operates anywhere across the front-line of an attack and knows how to score

The 32-year-old operates anywhere across the 前線-line of an attack and knows how to 得点する／非難する／２０

He is comfortable operating across the 前線 three of an attack or as a 誤った nine and wherever he lines up, he knows the 大勝する to goal. At Napoli, he has 得点する／非難する／２０d 118 goals in 304 外見s to date, while also laying on 71 補助装置s.?


If he does leave Naples in January, he will 出発／死 just three goals shy of Napoli's かつてない 主要な goalscorer, Marek Hamsik, on 121. Yes, Mertens has 得点する／非難する／２０d for Napoli more times than Diego Maradona did.?

Mertens has playmaking せいにするs that have developed with age - while he still has some years left in the 戦車／タンク at 32, his age has 自然に seen his pace erode but lightening 速度(を上げる） hasn't been something ever associated with Mertens.?His game is played in his 長，率いる and it is played brilliantly.

Should a move to Chelsea be 確認するd - and it is very much a 事例／患者 of 'if' - he would be a strong 新規加入 to Lampard's 階級s but it would be hard to see where he fits in beyond the end of the season.

Tammy Abraham, ideally, will get time to fully 回復する from his ankle knock 支えるd against 兵器庫 if Mertens comes, while Lampard is 明確に not taken by any of Olivier Giroud, Michy Batshuayi and Pedro. As the importance of the season rises in the second half of the （選挙などの）運動をする, their first-team chances will likely 少なくなる.

Mertens would offer big-game experience to Frank Lampard's set-up at Chelsea

Mertens would 申し込む／申し出 big-game experience to Frank Lampard's 始める，決める-up at Chelsea

Tammy Abraham currently has an ankle knock and Lampard seems to dislike his alternatives

Tammy Abraham 現在／一般に has an ankle knock and Lampard seems to dislike his 代案／選択肢s

The possible arrival of Mertens would go against the 穀物 of the youthful 協定 Lampard has 任命する／導入するd into the Chelsea squad this year.?

In the long 称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語, it is ありそうもない he would 許す Mertens too much game time at the expense of 現れるing youngsters such as Callum Hudson-Odoi and Christian Pulisic, who is 現在／一般に 負傷させるd.

Yet Mertens 申し込む／申し出s some consistency that Lampard perhaps can't always rely on with such youthful players and the ベルギー would bring big-game, 支持する／優勝者s League experience to Stamford 橋（渡しをする）.

And at £5m, what is there to lose?

If any Chelsea fans are unconvinced, perhaps what Mertens said about Liverpool's 'This is Anfield' 調印する in 2018, while 反映するing on playing them in a Europa League match in 2010 for Utrecht, will endear him.

Mertens once spoke to how he was underwhelmed by Liverpool's 'This is Anfield' sign

Mertens once spoke to how he was underwhelmed by Liverpool's 'This is Anfield' 調印する

Mertens said that the sign was small and he missed it on his way out onto the pitch

Mertens said that the 調印する was small and he 行方不明になるd it on his way out の上に the pitch

It occurred when Mertens played for Utrecht against Liverpool in the Europa League

It occurred when Mertens played for Utrecht against Liverpool in the Europa League?

'My strongest memory is that they have a 調印する 説 ‘This is Anfield’ and everyone was talking about it, so I was thinking it’s very big, you know,' he told The Times.

'I （機の）カム through the tunnel and I asked, "Where is the thing?" and they said "you 行方不明になるd it" and I hadn’t noticed it. So, in the second half, I’m looking at this small thing and asking, "Is this so special?"'

If Mertens turns out to be as cutting when he is on the pitch for Chelsea, they could have a special player.?

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