Chelsea Endure Contemporary Blow As Manchester Metropolis Goalkeeper, Steffen Joins New Membership

Chelsea have suffered a recent blow of their pursuit of Sevilla’s Jules Kounde.

In keeping with Objective, Chelsea had a £47million bid for Kounde rejected.

That isn’t anticipated to be the top of Chelsea’s switch chase, nevertheless, with Sevilla holding out for £55m and Thomas Tuchel’s aspect anticipated to return again for a second bid.

Chelsea face a battle from Barcelona, who’re additionally within the working for Kounde, which may make issues difficult on the subject of agreeing on private phrases.

The West London membership have already signed Kalidou Koulibaly to bolster their defence this summer season and are additionally in talks to signal Presnel Kimpembe from Paris Saint-Germain.

In the meantime, Manchester Metropolis goalkeeper, Zack Steffen, has left the membership to hitch Middlesbrough on a mortgage deal.

Middlesbrough disclosed this in a tweet by way of its Twitter deal with on Tuesday.

It tweeted, “We’ve accomplished the mortgage signing of @zacksteffen_ from @ManCity,”

Steffen’s transfer was already on the playing cards as Manchester Metropolis have already signed Stefan Ortega to offer competitors to Ederson, the first-choice keeper.