{"id":24136,"date":"2022-07-20T18:01:16","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T22:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/07\/20\/chelsea-table-65m-bid-for-jules-kounde-amid-barcelona-interest\/"},"modified":"2022-07-20T18:01:16","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T22:01:16","slug":"chelsea-table-65m-bid-for-jules-kounde-amid-barcelona-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/07\/20\/chelsea-table-65m-bid-for-jules-kounde-amid-barcelona-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea table 65m bid for Jules Kounde amid Barcelona interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<hr>\n<p>Chelsea have tabled a 65m euro bid for Sevilla defender Jules Kounde amid increasing optimism that a deal can be struck for the Frenchman this summer, 12 months on from when the same proposed transfer fell through.<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona are also thought to be monitoring the Frenchman, though at present sources seem to indicate that it is the Blues who have the upper hand in negotiations, with Barca having to wait until Thursday to table a bid, when their second economic lever gets activated.<\/p>\n<p>By contrast, Chelsea and Thomas Tuchel have already made a bid for the 23-year-old centre-back, who operates largely on the right side of central defence in Southern Spain.<\/p>\n<p>That bid, according to Goal, reaches 65m euros, which is close to the asking price of the Spanish side who are looking to receive nearly 100m euros for both Kounde and Diego Carlos, who joined Aston Villa earlier in the summer for a fee of \u00a328m (33m euros).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Chelsea have offered Sevilla \u20ac65million for Jules Kounde ? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/p6gHfBltDv\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/p6gHfBltDv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 GOAL (@goal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/goal\/status\/1549840537888366592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 20, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Barcelona not out of the race but fading<\/h2>\n<p>Chelsea have, of course, already been stung once this transfer window by Barcelona, who hijacked their move for Raphinha that they in turned had hijacked from Arsenal.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1526506\" style=\"width: 778px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1526506\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1526506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1231085804-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Chelsea table 65m bid for Jules Kounde amid Barcelona interest\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1231085804-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1231085804-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1231085804-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1231085804-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1231085804-488x650.jpg 488w, https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1231085804-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\"><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1526506\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SEVILLA, SPAIN \u2013 FEBRUARY 10: Jules Kounde of Sevilla FC celebrates 1-0 during the Spanish Copa del Rey match between Sevilla v FC Barcelona at the Estadio Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan on February 10, 2021 in Sevilla Spain (Photo by David S. Bustamante\/Soccrates\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>And, while the Blaugrana continue to be interested in Kounde, there is a general feeling that the Blues could well win this battle, with Sevilla more keen to sell abroad than to a direct rival and Chelsea\u2019s personal terms currently significantly better.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sevilla and Chelsea now have a verbal agreement in place for Jules Kounde. Advanced talks continuing to finalise. Kounde has already agreed personal terms with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CFC<\/a> and they are more preferable than the offer from Barcelona. Barca haven\u2019t yet made a formal counter-offer.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ben Jacobs (@JacobsBen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JacobsBen\/status\/1549824653962649601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 20, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>Read more:<\/h3>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"page-top-info col-xs-12 \">\n<h3 id=\"breadcrumbs\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/top-stories\/the-premier-league-best-xi-of-big-six-unwanted-players-this-summer\/\" rel=\"v:url\">Bad Batch \u2013 XI unwanted players from the big six in the Premier League<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/news\/arsenal-set-to-profit-as-oleksandr-zinchenko-signing-to-set-off-transfer-dominos\/\" rel=\"v:url\">Arsenal set to profit as Oleksandr Zinchenko signing to set off transfer dominos<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea have tabled a 65m euro bid for Sevilla defender Jules Kounde amid increasing optimism that a deal can be struck for the Frenchman this summer, 12 months on from when the same proposed transfer fell through. Barcelona are also thought to be monitoring the Frenchman, though at present sources seem to indicate that it [&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-24136","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\/24136","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=24136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}