Callum Hudson-Odoi has given new manager Frank Lampard a major boost by agreeing to stay at Chelsea. The 18-year-old has finally accepted the club’s most recent offer a five-year contract worth £100,000 a week and is expected to sign before the start of the season.

Hudson-Odoi was locked in a contractual stand-off with Chelsea for much of last season and told director Marina Granovskaia he wanted to leave in January due to disillusionment about a lack of playing time under Maurizio Sarri, but the club held firm and refused to sell despite serious interest from Bayern Munich. The German club made four separate bids with the highest reaching £40 million, and remain interested in signing Hudson-Odoi this summer, but Chelsea’s change of management has convinced