Only condition that could make Brentford sell this player to Chelsea

Brentford manager Thomas Frank in a recent statement said they would be open to selling Chelsea target, Ivan Toney in the January transfer window ‘if the right price is there’.

Toney, who scored 20 goals for Brentford last season, has been linked with a transfer to Chelsea in the winter transfer window as the Blues are keen on adding another player to their attacking options.

As of now, Toney is serving an eight-month ban after he accepted 232 breaches of the Football Association’s rules on betting.

He returned to training with Brentford on Monday but wouldn’t be able to play for the club until January 16, 2024.

“So far we have only sold one in the Premier League, that was David Raya – or that is a loan but probably will be a sale in the future, I guess,” Frank said on Sky Sports’ Monday Night Football.

“I think every club in the world is a selling club except five or six clubs. We are a selling club, if the right price is there.

“I think if it’s the right time for the player to go, from my perspective that is not my decision that would be Phil [Giles, director of football] or Matthew [Benham, Brentford’s owner] in the end, then I think if they have developed well with us, been on the journey, and now they are proven good enough to go to the top clubs, then I think it is the right thing, if it is the right price.”