Chelsea table 65m bid for Jules Kounde amid Barcelona interest

Chelsea have tabled a 65m euro bid for Sevilla defender Jules Kounde amid growing optimism {that a} deal may be struck for the Frenchman this summer season, 12 months on from when the identical proposed switch fell via.

Barcelona are additionally considered monitoring the Frenchman, although at current sources appear to point that it’s the Blues who’ve the higher hand in negotiations, with Barca having to attend till Thursday to desk a bid, when their second financial lever will get activated.

In contrast, Chelsea and Thomas Tuchel have already made a bid for the 23-year-old centre-back, who operates largely on the proper aspect of central defence in Southern Spain.

That bid, based on Purpose, reaches 65m euros, which is near the asking worth of the Spanish aspect who want to obtain almost 100m euros for each Kounde and Diego Carlos, who joined Aston Villa earlier in the summertime for a payment of £28m (33m euros).

Chelsea have supplied Sevilla €65million for Jules Kounde ? pic.twitter.com/p6gHfBltDv

— GOAL (@purpose) July 20, 2022

Barcelona not out of the race however fading

Chelsea have, in fact, already been stung as soon as this switch window by Barcelona, who hijacked their transfer for Raphinha that they in turned had hijacked from Arsenal.

SEVILLA, SPAIN – FEBRUARY 10: Jules Kounde of Sevilla FC celebrates 1-0 through the Spanish Copa del Rey match between Sevilla v FC Barcelona on the Estadio Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan on February 10, 2021 in Sevilla Spain (Picture by David S. Bustamante/Soccrates/Getty Photographs)

And, whereas the Blaugrana proceed to be curious about Kounde, there’s a basic feeling that the Blues might nicely win this battle, with Sevilla extra eager to promote overseas than to a direct rival and Chelsea’s private phrases at the moment considerably higher.

Sevilla and Chelsea now have a verbal settlement in place for Jules Kounde. Superior talks persevering with to finalise. Kounde has already agreed private phrases with #CFC and they’re extra preferable than the supply from Barcelona. Barca haven’t but made a proper counter-offer.

— Ben Jacobs (@JacobsBen) July 20, 2022

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Premier League desk

#	Staff	MP	D	P
1	AFC Bournemouth	0	0	0
2	Arsenal FC	0	0	0
3	Aston Villa	0	0	0
4	Brentford FC	0	0	0
5	Brighton & Hove Albion	0	0	0
6	Chelsea FC	0	0	0
7	Crystal Palace	0	0	0
8	Everton FC	0	0	0
9	Fulham FC	0	0	0
10	Leeds United	0	0	0
11	Leicester Metropolis	0	0	0
12	Liverpool FC	0	0	0
13	Manchester Metropolis	0	0	0
14	Manchester United	0	0	0
15	Newcastle United	0	0	0
16	Nottingham Forest	0	0	0
17	Southampton FC	0	0	0
18	Tottenham Hotspur	0	0	0
19	West Ham United	0	0	0
20	Wolverhampton Wanderers	0	0	0

Participant	Staff	Objectives
Salah, Mohamed	Liverpool FC	23
Son, Heung Min	Tottenham Hotspur	23
Ronaldo, Cristiano	Manchester United	18
Kane, Harry	Tottenham Hotspur	17
Mane, Sadio	Liverpool FC	16
De Bruyne, Kevin	Manchester Metropolis	15
Jota, Diogo	Liverpool FC	15
Vardy, Jamie	Leicester Metropolis	15
Zaha, Wilfried	Crystal Palace	14
Sterling, Raheem	Manchester Metropolis	13
Bowen, Jarrod	West Ham United	12
Maddison, James	Leicester Metropolis	12
Toney, Ivan	Brentford FC	12
Mount, Mason	Chelsea FC	11
Saka, Bukayo	Arsenal FC	11
Mahrez, Riyad	Manchester Metropolis	11
Richarlison	Everton FC	11
Pukki, Teemu	Norwich Metropolis	11
Raphinha	Leeds United	11
Watkins, Ollie	Aston Villa	11

Participant	Staff	Crimson Playing cards	Yellow Playing cards
Mings, Tyrone	Aston Villa	0	11
Xhaka, Granit	Arsenal FC	1	10
Tarkowski, James	Burnley FC	0	11
Firpo, Junior	Leeds United	0	11
Fernandes, Bruno	Manchester United	0	10
Gallagher, Conor	Crystal Palace	0	10
Brownhill, Josh	Burnley FC	0	10
Bednarek, Jan	Southampton FC	0	10
Bissouma, Yves	Brighton & Hove Albion	0	10
Moreno, Rodrigo	Leeds United	0	9
Neves, Ruben	Wolverhampton Wanderers	0	9
Romeu, Oriol	Southampton FC	0	9
Rudiger, Antonio	Chelsea FC	0	9
Mctominay, Scott	Manchester United	0	9
Salisu, Mohammed	Southampton FC	0	8
Ronaldo, Cristiano	Manchester United	0	8
Toney, Ivan	Brentford FC	0	8
Dennis, Emmanuel	Watford FC	0	7
Richarlison	Everton FC	0	8
Pogba, Paul	Manchester United	1	7

Participant	Staff	Assists
Salah, Mohamed	Liverpool FC	13
Alexander-Arnold, Trent	Liverpool FC	12
Barnes, Harvey	Leicester Metropolis	11
Kane, Harry	Tottenham Hotspur	10
Bowen, Jarrod	West Ham United	10
Mount, Mason	Chelsea FC	10
Robertson, Andy	Liverpool FC	10
Maddison, James	Leicester Metropolis	9
James, Reece	Chelsea FC	9
Pogba, Paul	Manchester United	9
Cancelo, Joao	Manchester Metropolis	9
De Bruyne, Kevin	Manchester Metropolis	8
Jesus, Gabriel	Manchester Metropolis	8
Kulusevski, Dejan	Tottenham Hotspur	8
Son, Heung Min	Tottenham Hotspur	7
Saka, Bukayo	Arsenal FC	7
Antonio, Michail	West Ham United	7
Lacazette, Alexandre	Arsenal FC	7
Mbeumo, Bryan	Brentford FC	7
Fernandes, Bruno	Manchester United	6