Chelsea have reached an agreement to sell Lewis Hall to Newcastle United for an initial £28 million, according to the Telegraph.

Chelsea’s decision to sell the 18 year old comes just weeks after the Blues offered him a new six-year contract.

Chelsea initially planned to loan Hall, who has played just 12 first team games, to a Premier League with Crystal Palace indicating an interest in the 18 year old.

Hall, already an England Under-21, and another fine prospect from the Cobham academy, joins Mason Mount in departing the club this summer, with a good chance that Conor Gallagher and Trevoh Chalobah will also leave.

Hall agreed a six-year contract at Chelsea with a year extra this summer that would have taken him to 2030. The original plan was to build his career there, but the club have now decided that the fee on offer was too good to turn down.