{"id":1140558,"date":"2022-07-03T08:43:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-03T08:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/03\/barcelona-agrees-double-swoop-for-2-chelsea-stars\/"},"modified":"2022-07-03T08:43:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-03T08:43:00","slug":"barcelona-agrees-double-swoop-for-2-chelsea-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/03\/barcelona-agrees-double-swoop-for-2-chelsea-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona Agrees Double Swoop For 2 Chelsea Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/f44c6087a8b8459eb9ca6bd002e9605d\"\/>With\u00a0Bar\u00e7a\u00a0and\u00a0Chelsea\u00a0vying to get the services of\u00a0Kound\u00e9, the\u00a0Sevilla\u00a0center-back, and\u00a0Raphinha\u00a0\u2013 the &#8216;blue&#8217; club had already closed an agreement with Leeds for the Brazilian winger for 75 million euros but it has been stopped because the footballer he wants to play at the Camp Nou and the Catalans are already offering 50 million\u2013, the signings of\u00a0Azpilicueta\u00a0(32 years old) and\u00a0Marcos Alonso\u00a0(31 years old) could be delayed.<\/p>\n<p>The two veteran defenders of\u00a0Chelsea, who have already agreed their contract conditions with\u00a0Bar\u00e7a, are waiting for the &#8216;blue&#8217; club to agree to negotiate their departures with\u00a0FC Barcelona\u00a0.\u00a0Azpilicueta, captain and &#8216;blue&#8217; player for the last 10 seasons, is at the expense of the new owners respecting the pact he had made with the old rectors, which was none other than being able to leave with the letter of freedom despite that\u00a0Chelsea\u00a0had the option of unilaterally extending his contract for one more year, as has ended up happening to him.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, after the departures of\u00a0R\u00fcdiger\u00a0and\u00a0Christensen,\u00a0Tuchel\u00a0also hinted publicly that he needed\u00a0Azpilicueta, since in addition to being a right-back he can also act as a central defender.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/6dc1cbf033114342be3d1976fc32acc3\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The case of\u00a0Marcos Alonso, despite not being exactly the same, is very similar, given that the Madrid winger has one more season left on his contract at Stamford Bridge.\u00a0However, in this case,\u00a0\u00a0Tuchel\u00a0has more alternatives for the left-back, hence, a priori, the need to retain the Madrid player is not so urgent for the Londoners.\u00a0In addition, the defender has expressed his desire to return to Spain to be close to his family and has received the approval of his coach.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, that will not mean that\u00a0Chelsea\u00a0are going to &#8216;give them away&#8217; when they agree to negotiate for them.\u00a0Neither him nor\u00a0Azpilicueta.\u00a0In fact,\u00a0Bar\u00e7a\u00a0already says that they will have to scratch their pockets a bit to get hold of the two Spanish internationals and estimates that they will be able to sign them for around 20 million euros.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, both from the environment of\u00a0Azpilicueta\u00a0and\u00a0Marcos Alonso\u00a0they do not foresee any news for this week, with which they could first join the discipline of the &#8216;blue&#8217; team before their signing for\u00a0Bar\u00e7a\u00a0is finalized.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Abigail.blog (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n <span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nAzpilicueta<br \/>\nBarcelona<br \/>\nRaphinha<br \/>\nR\u00fcdiger<br \/>\nSevilla<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With\u00a0Bar\u00e7a\u00a0and\u00a0Chelsea\u00a0vying to get the services of\u00a0Kound\u00e9, the\u00a0Sevilla\u00a0center-back, and\u00a0Raphinha\u00a0\u2013 the &#8216;blue&#8217; club had already closed an agreement with Leeds for the Brazilian winger for 75 million euros but it has been stopped because the footballer he wants to play at the Camp Nou and the Catalans are already offering 50 million\u2013, the signings of\u00a0Azpilicueta\u00a0(32 years old) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1140559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3881,656,58,677,95,17232],"class_list":["post-1140558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-agrees","tag-barcelona","tag-chelsea","tag-double","tag-stars","tag-swoop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1140558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1140558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1140558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1140558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}