Chelsea have suffered extra ache of their bid to signal Wesley Fofana from Leicester with the Foxes rejecting a 3rd bid.
It’s extensively reported the Blues’ most up-to-date provide for the 21-year-old defender was price round £70million, however Leicester nonetheless refuse to promote.
Foxes boss Brendan Rodgers confirmed a bid from the Blues was rejected, nonetheless, he didn’t specify what Chelsea supplied for Fofana.
Rodgers mentioned after Leicester’s Carabao Cup win over Stockport County: “The membership instructed me this [Tuesday] afternoon. I don’t know an excessive amount of element round it as a result of I’ve been concentrating on the sport.
“I imagine there was one other bid and that it was rejected, however nothing extra I can let you know on that.”
Fofana has made it clear he needs the transfer to Stamford Bridge and the Frenchman was left out of the Foxes squad of their 2-1 defeat at house to Southampton on Saturday.
Regardless of their newest setback, Chelsea stay hopeful of touchdown Fofana earlier than the switch window slams shut on September 1.
It’s understood their third bid contained a lot of troublesome add-ons and Leicester desire a price nearer to £80m.
Rodgers has previously admitted it has been a ‘attempting’ time for Fofana, having held talks with the centre-back after he missed a coaching session final week.
Nevertheless, Liverpool legend Graeme Souness was not so diplomatic when discussing the scenario on talkSPORT.
He mentioned: “Name it what it’s. He’s refusing to play and needs to maneuver. You signal the contract.
“No matter approach you say it, he’s saying, ‘My thoughts isn’t in the fitting place’. That to me is, ‘I’m not able to play’.
“Rodgers goes out of his solution to defend the participant who doesn’t wish to be part of the struggle.”
Souness added: “I’d fall out with him. That’s presumably the unsuitable factor to do. On the finish of the day, Brendan is strolling a tightrope.
“Folks shall be taking a look at him now. They’ve not had fun, they’re sitting close to the underside of the league and that’s the factor he has to cope with.
“He needs to be specializing in attempting to win the following soccer match.
“That’s fashionable administration. He’s having to bend over and defend a boy who has completed nothing within the sport.
“Perhaps he shall be a prime participant in the future, however he’s needed to bend over to say, ‘Please play for me’.
“That’s how mad and out of sync soccer has develop into for me the place the tail now wags the canine.
“These gamers signal large contracts, receives a commission absolute fortunes and may choose and select after they wish to play.”
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