{"id":249716,"date":"2025-09-23T19:37:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T19:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/249716\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T19:37:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T19:37:18","slug":"express-chelsea-still-want-milan-star-with-pre-contract-eyed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/249716\/","title":{"rendered":"Express: Chelsea still want Milan star with pre-contract eyed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chelsea have not given up on signing goalkeeper Mike Maignan from Chelsea, a report claims, and they are preparing another move.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To simplify the back story a bit, Chelsea came in for Maignan in early June during the special pre-Club World Cup window. The goalkeeper was believed to be keen on the move, but they <a href=\"https:\/\/sempremilan.com\/maignan-chelsea-deal-collapses-milan-tax\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>never agreed a fee with Milan<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Frenchman remained and the new head coach Massimiliano Allegri made him club captain. However, his contract expires at the end of the season and there is <a href=\"https:\/\/sempremilan.com\/milan-not-enjoying-maignan-renewal-talks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>nothing suggesting a renewal is imminent<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chelsea still interested<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2111344\/Chelsea-transfer-news-goalkeeper-Sanchez-Maignan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Express<\/a>, Chelsea still have big doubts about their starting goalkeeper position having not addressed the issue during the summer window, and they still hold an interest in Maignan.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/maignanmilanchelsea.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-301401 has-webp\" alt=\"Maignan, Milan and Chelsea\"   style=\"aspect-ratio:1200\/750;max-width:1200px\"\/>Photo by Richard Pelham\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Robert Sanchez\u2019s performance against Manchester United seems to have forced further reflections as he got a straight red card early on for a reckless challenge which ended up being a big factor in their defeat.<\/p>\n<p>The paper confirms that the London club wanted the 30-year-old in June, but Milan were asking for \u00a325m (not far off \u20ac30m) in order to sell, which was a figure deemed too high. This time, Maignan can sign a pre-contract agreement in January, which is what Chelsea might just pursue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chelsea have not given up on signing goalkeeper Mike Maignan from Chelsea, a report claims, and they are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":249717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-249716","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115255302585905455","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}