Chelsea are working on a deal to bring Anthony Martial from Manchester United as a replacement for Eden Hazard, who has asked to leave Stamford Bridge this summer for Real Madrid. Having rejected the offer of an improved contract at Old Trafford, Martial is also wanted by German champions Bayern Munich.

Neither Chelsea nor Bayern want to meet United’s €100m (£89.3m) valuation of the France international, who has just a year remaining on his Old Trafford contract and last month permitted his representative to publicly state that “the time has come” to move elsewhere. While United hold an unilateral option to extend the 22-year-old’s contract for an additional season, Jose Mourinho is open to selling Martial and recruiting a specialist winger.

Hazard is similarly intent