Chelsea are looking for a goalkeeper for a long time and the first name on your candidate list is Jan Oblak. Atlético's Slovenian goalkeeper is one of the best in the world in his position and the 'blues' want to take over his services to compete or even replace Kepa, which has raised doubts for his coach, Lampard, about his performance this season. Throughout this course has linked Oblak with Londoners several times, although at the moment it seems that they will not go after him definitively.
The main stumbling block for Chelsea to sign Oblak is his price. And is that the goalkeeper has a contract until 2023 and a termination clause of 120 million euros that Atlético refuses to lower. As has happened in recent years with the players considered important by Simeone, the rojiblanco club has transmitted to the Slovenian's agents that It will only go out for the full amount set for your freedom. That has caused the english are looking for other alternatives to solve the problem you have in goal.
The last name to have been linked with Lampard's team is that of the Rennes goalkeeper, Edouard Mendy, 28 years old. As reported by the newspaper ‘Daily Mail’, the ‘blues’ have probed the French club to sign the Senegalese and the leaders of the French team would have been willing to negotiate a transfer, including a player in the operation, in addition to an unspecified amount of money. Therefore, if Atlético closes the band to negotiate for Oblak, Londoners already have other solutions on their agenda to raise the level of their goal.