Town’s move for Chelsea striker Armando Broja is off.

Last week, the Blues and West Londoners agreed terms on a season-long loan which would become a £30 million permanent switch but an achilles issue emerged during the Albanian international’s medical.

Since then, the clubs have maintained a dialogue with a view to renegotiating the terms of the deal, while Chelsea carried out their own scan on the injury, which was expected to sideline the 22-year-old for around seven weeks, earlier this week.

Ultimately, however, the move has now broken down and, according to The Athletic, Broja could now join another club before tomorrow’s 11pm deadline - Everton have been strongly linked - but it seems more likely he will stay at Chelsea and rehabilitate his injury.

Town will now look elsewhere to add a striker to their squad before the window closes with a number of players having been linked in recent days.

However, while we understand there has been some interest, Burnley’s Lyle Foster is not close to the top of the list, while Cercle Brugge striker Kevin Denkey and Crystal Palace’s Odsonne Édouard are not believed to be being looked at.

We understand Town have a couple of candidates whose names have yet to emerge publicly and regarding whom they have made their interest known to their clubs.

A striker would be the Blues’ 13th and final addition of the window.

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MVBlue added 21:32 - Aug 29 Orfordbuoy there was this guy called Kieffer Moore....
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Umros added 21:41 - Aug 29 Phew….was very uneasy about the type of deal being loan then compulsory purchase if maintaining status. A lot of money potentially for a possible flop !. Please don’t now do the same for the Burnley striker @ 25 million ! Crazy money and risk !
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Lightningboy added 22:24 - Aug 29 Agree with algarvefan's earlier post...re-the Burley comment,I think he made one signing when we got promoted - Herman Hreidarsson and that was it - think we've gone slightly bonkers tbh with some of these signings..would've rather kept Hladky (who was arguably the best keeper in the championship last season) along with bringing in Moore & Sarmiento on permanent deals.

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wischip added 09:58 - Aug 30 Perhaps we should look to our own academy for backup strikers as finishers. And they also don't count to the 25 limit.
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pauldart added 14:06 - Aug 30 Hang on Sky Sports News just reporting talks are back on
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