DEAL AGREED: Chelsea is now set to confirm the signing of a £15 million world-class player. Personal terms were agreed upon, as the player wants to be part of Enzo Maresca's project next season.

DEAL AGREED: Chelsea is now set to confirm the signing of a £15 million world-class player. Personal terms were agreed upon, as the player wants to be part of Enzo Maresca's project next season.

Chelsea are currently in search of a new goalkeeper, as Enzo Maresca still keeps demanding better prospects who could make distributions even at the two poles.

With the linked arrival of another Leicester star seemingly confirmed, Chelsea could seal the deal as Enzo Maresca requests to add his former goalkeeper to his depth at Stamford Bridge.

Enzo Maresca has gotten the squad he had aspired for, with 80% of his dream signings confirmed already, but it seems the quest for a new goalkeeper is what is still keeping the Blues scorching the market.

Meanwhile, the Blues have hinted that there’s still hope for Chelsea’s number one goalkeeper, Robert Sanchez, who missed a greater part of last season owing to injury, with Petrovic’s increasing admiration from the manager.

According to reports, Enzo Maresca is a great admirer of Hermansen, who joined Leicester A month after Maresca became Leicester City manager,.

Mads Hermansen replaced Daniel Iversen, who finished the previous season in the Premier League as first-choice. History could now repeat itself only a year later.

Now, it seems the former Leicester boss could be striving to lure the player down to Stamford Bridge, with reports claiming that his release clause is somewhat cheaper.

Recently, Leicester valued that shot stopper for a £15 million release clause, which is pretty affordable for the Blues to make an offer immediately.

With the speculation still ongoing, Chelsea’s quest for a new goalkeeper could be solved if Hermansen finally joins West London.

But it is clear how highly Maresca rates the Denmark international. “We won many games this year because of Mads,” he told LeicestershireLive in April after a 2-1 home win over Birmingham City in which the goalkeeper made a mistake to gift the visitors their goal. “It can happen. What cannot happen is that he starts to play long balls. We scored many goals because of the way we start with Mads.

“For me, Mads was fantastic in the second half. He was not nervous, but the people in the stadium were more nervous than him, for sure. But what I said to him was: ‘Second half, when we play with you, if you play long, you go out. Continue in the same way.’ He showed personality. He continued to play short.”

For Hermansen, however, that is how he naturally plays, and he feels Maresca is a manager who gets the best out of his style of goalkeeping.

“I’ve always had a good vision for my teammates,” he told The Athletic in mid-May.

“I’ve always been good with my feet and been safe on the ball. That part of my game has always been quite natural. I’ve always been good at playing under high pressure. You make errors in football, no matter how you play.

“If it’s in this way or another way, it’s the same, and now we have reached the level where we were good enough to win the championship. We’ve only played like this as a team for one season. There’s still so much we can work on and improve.

“Yeah, we may have given two, three, or four goals away over 46 games (playing this way), but we have created a lot of chances and goals from that build-up over a season. That’s been much more than giving two or three goals away.”