Revealed: The two midfielders Chelsea negotiated for before switching focus to Denis Zakaria loan transfer
Chelsea tried signing Ajax midfielder Edson Alvarez and PSV ace Ibrahim Sangare earlier than lastly choosing the late possibility of bringing in Denis Zakaria on mortgage from Juventus. That’s in response to Fabrizio Romano in his exclusive column for CaughtOffside, with the transfer news guru explaining exactly how the Blues’ barely weird Deadline Day transpired. Zakaria seems to be a good possibility for Chelsea, but it surely appears fairly clear that the Switzerland worldwide was a last-minute goal for the west London giants after they’d tried and failed to barter offers for different gamers in that place. Alvarez and Sangare had been seemingly the popular targets for Chelsea, however Romano says these offers weren’t doable, and ultimately one imagines most followers might be pretty pleased with Zakaria, even when he was a little bit of a late Plan B for the membership. Edson Alvarez had been a goal for Chelsea The 25-year-old hasn’t fairly received going at Juventus, however he’d beforehand regarded a prime expertise throughout his time within the Bundesliga with Borussia Monchengladbach. “The Zakaria possibility arrived within the final hours of Deadline Day – there had by no means been any negotiations earlier…