{"id":110161,"date":"2026-07-30T20:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T20:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/110161\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T20:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T20:30:18","slug":"chelsea-fail-in-attempt-to-snatch-e40m-juventus-transfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/110161\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea fail in attempt to “snatch” \u20ac40m Juventus transfer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chelsea are going to miss out on one of their much coveted teenage attacking transfer targets this summer, according to reports.<\/p>\n

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Chelsea have made some great progress in the transfer market this summer, both in selling and buying.<\/p>\n

But you can\u2019t win them all, and according to reports in Germany, they\u2019re set to miss out on one of their favourites from this summer.<\/p>\n

The last couple of weeks had seen intensifying reports that the Blues were interested in Kerim Alajbegovic from Bayer Leverkusen. But the word today from German sport paper Kicker<\/a> is that he\u2019s agreed a move to Juventus.<\/p>\n

Chelsea make last minute attempt to \u201csnatch\u201d Alajbegovic, but Juve win through
\n\"KerimKerim Alajbegovic (Photo by Warren Little\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

This report says that Chelsea were in \u201cconcrete negotiations\u201d with Leverkusen, and even made a \u201clast minute\u201d attempt to \u201csnatch the deal.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the 18 year old ultimately \u201cchose Turin and the better sporting prospects there, as he is expected to be a regular starter at Juventus.\u201d Fair enough, we can\u2019t complain about that. He was hardly going to be starting ahead of Morgan Rogers, Cole Palmer or Estevao right now.<\/p>\n

He will fly to Italy to complete the move tomorrow, with the move potentially costing Juventus \u20ac40m for Bosnia\u2019s World Cup breakout star. Good luck to him out there\u2026<\/p>\n

In other news\u2026<\/p>\n

Josh Acheampong\u2019s future is a big question now for Chelsea as the club stock up with even more central defenders. He needs a plan and a pathway.<\/a><\/p>\n

Chelsea\u2019s deal for Maxence Lacroix is done, and has been announced by the club. That only increases the pressure on Acheampong.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chelsea are going to miss out on one of their much coveted teenage attacking transfer targets this summer,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[53677,17],"class_list":["post-110161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-switzerland","tag-kerim-alajbegovic","tag-switzerland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117010826877611524","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}