Callum Hudson-Odoi is ready to hand Chelsea a major boost and sign a new five-year contract to stay at the club.

Standard Sport understands Chelsea have made a major breakthrough in negotiations and the 18-year-old is set to commit his long-term future to the club.

This paper revealed in March that the club was going to make a major push to secure Hudson-Odoi on a long-term deal at the end of the season and were prepared to offer the 18-year-old £100,000-a-week.

While nothing has been officially signed yet, both parties are happy with how things have progressed and it appears just a matter of when the announcement is made.

It is believed one of the plans in place is to finalise things soon after Eden’s Hazard’s expected move to Real Madrid is completed, so that it will give the fans some positive news after the bitter disappointment of seeing the much loved Belgian depart.

The possibility of the England international inheriting Hazard’s No10 jersey has been discussed as part of the talks and could be passed on to him for next season.

Persuading Hudson-Odoi to remain at Stamford Bridge is a major triumph for Chelsea as the winger looked certain to leave for Bayern Munich.

He rejected offers of a new deal last summer and in January, which was the same month he handed in an official transfer request.

Bayern Munich made four offers to Chelsea for the prodigy around the new year, the last of which was worth £35m, but all were rejected by the Blues.

Such is Chelsea’s determination to keep their prized asset, they were always planning to keep Hudson-Odoi regardless this summer even if he didn’t sign an extension.

That decision could have backfired because his current deal runs out in 2020, meaning they would run the risk of losing him for a nominal compensation figure in 12 months’ time.

But they have been able to convince Hudson-Odoi that the best place for him to develop his game is where he has played since joining their academy 12 years ago anyway.

Until suffering a ruptured Achilles tendon against Burnley in April, the starlet had made a major breakthrough in his professional career during 2018-19.

He made 24 appearances in total for the senior side, including his first Premier League start against Brighton two months ago.

Hudson-Odoi also scored his first goals for the club - five overall - four of which were during Chelsea’s run to winning the Europa League.

His brilliant form earned him two senior England caps in March and he impressed, initially as a substitute against Czech Republic and then from the start against Montenegro.

The Achilles injury brought the campaign to a premature end, but there is growing optimism that Hudson-Odoi could be fit for the start of next season.

Surgery on the problem went well in Barcelona and the recovery is going much quicker than expected.

Chelsea team-mate Antonio Rudiger told Standard Sport in January the importance of the Blues convincing Hudson-Odoi to remain with them.

He said: “Of all the young players I have seen at Chelsea, he is the shooting star. He has all the tools to become a big player but he has to work a lot. He is good, everyone knows that, everyone can see that.”

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With Chelsea yet to confirm whether they have lodged an appeal with the court of Arbitration for Sport over Fifa’s two window transfer ban, it makes the impending Hudson-Odoi agreement even more significant.