Chelsea halt keeper talks<\/p>\n
Chelsea have halted talks over a deal to sign Mike Maignan but will continue pursuing Jamie Gittens.<\/p>\n
The Blues had hoped to land both in time for the Club World Cup, which starts next week, but deals will not be agreed in time.<\/p>\n
A new, short-term, transfer window to allow signing’s ahead of the tournament closes at 7pm today. The usual summer transfer window opens on June 16.<\/p>\n
Chelsea are not willing to meet AC Milan’s asking price of more than \u00a320million for Maignan given he has just a year left on his deal.<\/p>\n
Their latest proposal was for a fee of around \u00a312m. Maignan has made his desire to move to Stamford Bridge clear, telling Milan he will not renew his deal.<\/p>\n
Chelsea opened talks after being altered to Maignan’s desire to move, but refuse to budge on their valuation.<\/p>\n
Their remains the chance that negotiations could pick up again later in the window if Milan’s asking price comes down. Failing that, from January Chelsea could hold pre-contract talks over a free transfer next summer.<\/p>\n
The possibility of Djordje Petrovic going the other way as part of a deal has been discussed.<\/p>\n
Borussia Dortmund winger Gittens remains a key target on the wing.
Chelsea have seen a \u00a330m approach for the 20-year-old winger knocked back by the German side, who could hold out for up to \u00a350m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chelsea halt keeper talks Chelsea have halted talks over a deal to sign Mike Maignan but will continue…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,4884,1921,179,189,1922,100,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-178256","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-live-blogs","12":"tag-liverpool","13":"tag-section-sportfootball","14":"tag-sport-live-blogs","15":"tag-transfer-news","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114670149510590095","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}