The French Jules Kounde He was very close to ending up in the Chelsea last summer in exchange for €50 million. The transfer was practically closed, but Sevilla backed down at the last moment, provoking the player’s anger, who even refused to travel with the team to Elche for one of the first days of the League.
Throughout this season the certainty has been in the air that the young defender, who already in the previous summer was tempted by the Manchester City (which offered 55 million to Sevilla), make the leap to the Premier League when this season ends and that possibility takes shape according to the news coming from England.
Chelsea is awaiting the purchase by the billionaire Todd Boehlywhich has shares in the Los Angeles Lakers, once Roman Abramovich has been forced to leave the property of the British club and the English government authorizes the operation.
Thus, according to information from ’90min’, Koundé has already been informed that he will be the first incorporation once the sale of the Stanford Bridge entity is effective and signed. The amount that the final operation would have is unknown, although Sevilla’s intention is for that figure to exceed the 50 million euros that Chelsea already offered last preseason. The player wants to go out and join a competition like the Premier and a powerful club, which is why, after two frustrated attempts, he has received the promise of facilitating the operation to come to fruition as long as it benefits all the parts.
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