{"id":22540,"date":"2022-07-02T09:00:32","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T13:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/07\/02\/chelsea-ready-to-make-first-official-bid-for-juventus-matthijs-de-ligt\/"},"modified":"2022-07-02T09:00:32","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T13:00:32","slug":"chelsea-ready-to-make-first-official-bid-for-juventus-matthijs-de-ligt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/07\/02\/chelsea-ready-to-make-first-official-bid-for-juventus-matthijs-de-ligt\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea ready to make first official bid for Juventus\u2019 Matthijs de Ligt"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<hr>\n<p>Chelsea\u2019s pursuit of Juventus and Netherlands stare Matthijs de Ligt looks to have taken a step forward.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues have been heavily linked with De Ligt during the last few weeks. This also comes with previous centre-back target Jules Kounde seemingly more likely to join FC Barcelona over Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p>And now, as per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alfredopedulla.com\/esclusiva-de-ligt-il-chelsea-prepara-la-prima-offerta-da-70-milioni-bayern-solo-un-sondaggio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reports<\/a> coming from Italy, the west Londoners are ready to make their first official offer for the stopper.<\/p>\n<p>Said offer is worth \u20ac70m and does not include any players despite previous reports suggesting the likes of Christian Pulisic and Timo Werner could be used as part of a deal for De Ligt.<\/p>\n<p>It is added that Juventus are willing to accept a figure under De Ligt\u2019s \u20ac120m release clause. 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The Blues have been heavily linked with De Ligt during the last few weeks. This also comes with previous centre-back target Jules Kounde seemingly more likely to join FC Barcelona over Chelsea. And now, as per reports coming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[13,14],"class_list":["post-22540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-sport","tag-football","tag-soccer","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}