Khvicha Kvaratskhelia’s ex-English coach reveals ‘next Cristiano Ronaldo’ holds Premier League dream

Khvicha Kvaratskhelia is interested in joining one of the three Premier League teams whose European dreams he stands to end.

The Paris Saint-Germain star’s former assistant coach at Georgia has revealed the winger would move to England ‘for the right club’.

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Kvaratskhelia was heavily linked with a Premier League transfer when his time at Napoli was coming to an end in January, 2025.

However, Georgia‘s captain instead joined PSG, where he helped deliver the club’s first Champions League title in his first six months.

And the Premier League‘s loss has been compounded by Kvaratskhelia’s form against English teams in Europe this season.

The 25-year-old has registered a goal contribution in each one of his five appearances against a side from England for PSG.

Kvaratskhelia was the architect behind a humiliating 8-2 aggregate win over Chelsea after scoring three times across two legs.

He has since put Liverpool on the brink of a Champions League exit with his dazzling solo goal sealing a 2-0 victory in last week’s first leg.

Kvaratskhelia, whose 11 goal involvements in the Champions League knockouts are second only to Raphinha since the start of last season, could also find himself against Arsenal should both teams reach the final.

Ironically, those three Premier League teams are the ones his former Georgia assistant, David Webb, could eventually see him at.

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“I think it’d be great for the Premier League if he would come,” Webb told talkSPORT’s Hawsbee and Jacobs. “He’s an exciting player and he would. he would definitely sort of light it up.

“Would he come? Yes, he would come if it was the right opportunity and the right club.”

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When asked if Kvaratskhelia talked to him about the Premier League, Webb replied: “Yeah, we spoke about it. He was always interested.”

On the clubs he followed, Webb continued: “It’s Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, the big ones competing in the Champions League and stuff.”

A switch to England would enhance Kvaratskhelia’s aim to emulate his idol Cristiano Ronaldo by taking the Premier League by storm.

Webb has borne witness to the birth of ‘Kvaradona’, having taken his role at Georgia a year after the country’s talisman had joined Napoli.

“He’s a phenomenal talent,” the English coach added to talkSPORT. “And I think since I joined Georgia in 2023, he was at Napoli at the time.

“He’d just been off that season where he just won Serie A, and then he had a spell under [Antonio] Conte, and I think that really took his game to another level in terms of his work rate and his physicality.

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“Because obviously under Conte, you have to put in the defensive work.

“I think that really put him on the radar to go to the next level with PSG and then start competing for Champions League and stuff like that, which he was very successful in last year.

“So I think we’ve seen if you look at his stats during the Champions League.

“Obviously, we can see his talent on the ball, what he does without the ball.

“But his work rate now, I think, he’s one of the highest sort of outputs from the attacking players to come back defensively.

“And I think it’s a real credit that he’s added to his game.”

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Wants to be as good as Ronaldo

Having helped Napoli clinch their first Serie A title in 33 years in 2023, Kvaratskhelia then helped Georgia qualify for their first major international tournament at Euro 2024.

Champions League glory followed last year, and yet Webb reaffirmed that Kvaratskhelia shares Ronaldo’s hunger to achieve even more.

He told talkSPORT: “To describe him, if you was to go into camp and you see him sitting down eating dinner and you didn’t know who he was, you just think he’s just one of the lads, because he’s quiet.

“He’s very humble. He’s quite quiet. He’s not like an outwardly loud person.

“Where he talks is on the pitch and in training, his work rate, his attitude, his application. He wants to do more.

“I always find with the top players, they got this hunger about them and this desire to learn.

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“All he used to say to me was, ‘I want to be as good as Ronaldo. I want to be as good as Ronaldo.’ That was his idol.

“So after training, we used to have to try and get him off because he practised every routine.

“Five shots with his right., five left, free-kicks, five penalties, and then we’d have a game the next day, and [Georgia head coach] Willy [Sagnol] would be going, ‘David, get him off.’

“But yeah, that’s just him. He just wants to improve all the time.”