Chelsea boss Frank Lampard has been calling Dries Mertens every day in a bid to secure his signing this summer. The Napoli ace has been courted by the Blues before, in January.
At that time, the West London outfit made a bid of around £8.5m for his services despite the fact that his contract expires on June 30.
With the futures of Olivier Giroud and Michy Batshuayi in the air and Tammy Abraham's fitness, Frank Lampard needed a striker.
He never got his man, however, with Mertens keen to finish the season and become Napoli's top all-time goalscorer. But the Blues are set to launch a new raid on the Belgian while Lampard has not left the forward alone, according to Italian transfer expert Vincenzo Morabito. "Mertens had originally said
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