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Gaga Slonina to join Chelsea

Gaga Slonina has found his next destination. According to multiple reports, the Chicago Fire’s 18-year-old homegrown prodigy will join Chelsea FC on a transfer for an estimated fee of $10 million, with add-ons bringing it up to $15 million; the young goalkeeper has been tracked by all of the top clubs in Europe after he won the starting job with the Fire nearly a year before his eighteenth birthday. Slonina’s transfer will include a loan back to the Fire, initially 5 months running through the end of the 2022 season in Major League Soccer. He would join Chelsea on January 1st.