Roma soccer market, dry for no for Mile Svilar
Chelsea was reportedly willing to put about 50 million euros on the table for Mile Svilar, but Roma immediately rejected the offer. The English club, led by Todd Boehly and the protagonist of huge investments in recent seasons, is looking for a new number one after perplexities emerged over the performance of Robert Sánchez and Filip Jørgensen. Thus, Svilar, considered one of the best goalkeepers in Serie A and the absolute leader in saves statistics, with a percentage of 77.5 percent, has ended up in the crosshairs. And the line does not seem destined to change even with the new sporting director D’Amico, who reportedly already shared with Gasperini the desire to retain the goalkeeper at any cost, even in the face of economically superior proposals.
The Blues’ interest in Svilar is nothing new: the Serbian-Belgian goalkeeper had already ended up in Chelsea’s sights in the 2024-2025 season, when his performances with the Giallorossi jersey had attracted the attention of several top European clubs, including Manchester United, Manchester City and Bayern Munich. On that occasion, Roma had managed to armor him with a contract renewal, sanctioning the beginning of a new professional chapter for the extreme defender, who had chosen to stay in the capital despite the sirens coming from abroad.
The most important recognition came at the end of the 2025-2026 season, when Svilar won the award of best goalkeeper in Serie A assigned by the League, crowning a path of steady growth that has definitely consecrated him among the best in his role on the European scene. A seal of quality that has inevitably further fueled market rumors and made it even more complicated for Roma to resist the advances of foreign clubs.
In terms of profile, Svilar was born in Antwerp on August 27, 1999, and is the son of art: his father Ratko was also a goalkeeper, tying much of his career to Antwerp both as a player and a coach. Mile took his first steps in Anderlecht’s youth sector, then made his professional debut in Portugal with the Benfica shirt, a club from which Tiago Pinto – now at Bournemouth – had brought him to Rome. Brought up in the Belgian youth national teams, he chose to represent Serbia at senior level, with which he made his debut in August 2021.
On the Chelsea front, it should be mentioned how the London club has a particularly articulate management structure, with as many as five sporting directors on the payroll. An organizational complexity that has already created internal friction in the past, leading among other things to the exoneration of Enzo Maresca during the season that just ended. Despite the enormous resources invested in the market in recent years, the Blues are still struggling to find lasting stability, and the purchase of an absolutely reliable goalkeeper like Svilar would be a key piece in the revitalization project of the team currently led by Liam Rosenior.
