{"id":7721,"date":"2022-01-29T15:03:50","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T20:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/01\/29\/chelsea-continue-to-track-sevillas-jules-kounde-for-potential-summer-move\/"},"modified":"2022-01-29T15:03:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T20:03:50","slug":"chelsea-continue-to-track-sevillas-jules-kounde-for-potential-summer-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/01\/29\/chelsea-continue-to-track-sevillas-jules-kounde-for-potential-summer-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea continue to track Sevilla&rsquo;s Jules Kound\u00e9 for potential summer move"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Premier League title challengers Chelsea are linked with resumed interest in Sevilla and French international center-back Jules Kound\u00e9 according to fresh reports in Spain.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/as.com\/futbol\/2022\/01\/29\/primera\/1643452132_671221.html?id_externo_rsoc=CM_ES_TW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AS reported earlier today<\/a> that the Blues have not forgotten about the 23-year-old Paris-native and claim that Chelsea is eyeing up the potential of agreeing a deal for a summer move well in advance of the transfer window in order to ward off interest from others while controlling the financial narrative of any deal that may be struck.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">? Nueva ofensiva del Chelsea por Kound\u00e9<br \/>? El club londinense no se olvida del central del Sevilla y baraja cerrar el fichaje antes de que llegue el verano para que no suban los pretendientes y tambi\u00e9n su precio<\/p>\n<p>\u270d\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/josanespina?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@josanespina<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bljQ868nNF\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/bljQ868nNF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Diario AS (@diarioas) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/diarioas\/status\/1487478396036734980?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 29, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The report also states that should Chelsea aim for a summer deal, the price made to be paid to secure the Frenchman would be significantly cheaper; somewhere in the region of \u20ac50million. That is substantially lower than the price the Stamford Bridge outfit would have to pay to prize him away from the Estadio Ram\u00f3n S\u00e1nchez Pizju\u00e1n this month, which would constitute paying his \u20ac80million release clause in full.<\/p>\n<h2>Chelsea preparing for a potential defensive exodus<\/h2>\n<p>The renewed interest in Jules Kound\u00e9 could well be a response by Chelsea given the growing concern that a defensive exodus from Stamford Bridge could still be on the cards after Spanish giants <a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/news\/transfers\/barcelona-bound-chelsea-defensive-duo-monitored-by-spanish-giants-amid-contract-negotiations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Barcelona have been linked with recent interest<\/a> in both club captain C\u00e9sar Azpilicueta as well as key center-back and Danish international Andreas Christensen.<\/p>\n<p>Both players have yet to agree on fresh terms with Chelsea with the pair out of contract come the summer and any club being free to start discussions surrounding a potential free transfer once the summer window opens.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1474046\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1474046\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1474046\" src=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1232765845.jpg\" alt=\"Chelsea resume interest in Jules Kounde for potential summer move\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1232765845.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1232765845-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1232765845-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1232765845-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1232765845-910x607.jpg 910w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1474046\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MANCHESTER, ENGLAND \u2013 MAY 08: Andreas Christensen of Chelsea during the Premier League match between Manchester City and Chelsea at Etihad Stadium on May 8, 2021 in Manchester, United Kingdom. (Photo by Matthew Ashton \u2013 AMA\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Should Christensen especially decide to part ways with the Premier League giants, Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel would be down to just Trevoh Chalobah, and Malang Sarr as potentially the only guaranteed reliable options next season. Thiago Silva agreed to an extension recently but will turn 38 in the early weeks of the 2022-23 season, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/news\/ready-made-rudiger-replacement-five-things-we-learned-as-chelsea-fall-short-in-manchester\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">there is no telling if Antonio R\u00fcdiger will remain in west London<\/a> or if he will move on amid interest from some of Europe\u2019s elite including Real Madrid and Bayern Munich.<\/p>\n<p>Sealing a deal for Jules Kound\u00e9 would go a long way in securing the heart of the defense for Chelsea as they look to keep pace with Manchester City and Liverpool as the headline clubs in the top flight of English football.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Premier League title challengers Chelsea are linked with resumed interest in Sevilla and French international center-back Jules Kound\u00e9 according to fresh reports in Spain. AS reported earlier today that the Blues have not forgotten about the 23-year-old Paris-native and claim that Chelsea is eyeing up the potential of agreeing a deal for a summer move [&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-7721","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\/7721","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=7721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}