{"id":614395,"date":"2022-06-28T14:31:24","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T18:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=614395"},"modified":"2022-06-28T14:31:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T18:31:24","slug":"chelsea-agreeing-fee-raphinha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/28\/chelsea-agreeing-fee-raphinha\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Close to Agreeing Fee with Sought-After Raphinha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leeds United attacker Raphinha has been subject to a lot of interest in this summer transfer window. The player&#8217;s attacking displays for the club last season<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/15\/arsenal-tottenham-brazilian-leeds-united-winger-raphinha\/\" target=\"_self\"> attracted interest from some major teams<\/a> like Chelsea, Arsenal, and Barcelona, with all three making advances throughout the current off-season.<\/p>\n<p>David Ornstein of The Athletic <a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/news\/raphinha-chelsea-arsenal-transfer-leeds\/uebWdbbuZc1q\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">has issued an exclusive report<\/a> that puts Chelsea in the driver&#8217;s seat to get a deal done for the Brazilian with the club reportedly indicating that they are willing to pay upwards of \u00a355 million for the wide-man.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udea8 EXCL: Chelsea close to agreeing fee north of \u00a355m with Leeds for Raphinha but not done yet. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#CFC<\/a> now best placed with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LUFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#LUFC<\/a> &amp; 25yo as long-term favourites Barcelona can\u2019t afford it at present + Arsenal not currently at required price <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAthleticUK?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@TheAthleticUK<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#AFC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cPEmDq4d8N\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/cPEmDq4d8N<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David Ornstein (@David_Ornstein) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/David_Ornstein\/status\/1541843186280185857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 28, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Chelsea Close to Agreement with Leeds for Raphinha<\/h2>\n<h3>Other Interest<\/h3>\n<p>As mentioned previously, the Blues were not alone in their interest for the Leeds winger. Spanish giants Barcelona were long considered the favourites with the player himself preferring a move there, but the Catalan side is not in a position to pay such lofty fees at this time.<\/p>\n<p>On the other side of London, the Gunners are reportedly not willing to pay as much as their blue counterparts, partially due to their focus on signing <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/28\/arsenal-lisandro-martinez-bid-response\/\" target=\"_self\">Gabriel Jesus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Chelsea and Leeds have reached full agreement for Raphinha! Official bid accepted around \u00a360\/65m [add ons included]. Main part of amount to be paid immediately. It\u2019s done between clubs. \ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udd35 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#CFC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Talks now ongoing on player side on personal terms and contract. Boehly, on it. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gNbc4HbrTa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/gNbc4HbrTa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1541846496022335488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 28, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Chelsea Making Moves<\/h3>\n<p>With new owners firmly in place it is time for the former Champions League winners to start throwing around their weight in this window. Thomas Tuchel and his side need reinforcements to beef up the squad and make up for any potential departures that are on the horizon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/24\/chelsea-transfer-budget-new-owners\/\" target=\"_self\">Chelsea Transfer Budget Revealed With Thomas Tuchel Promised Up To Six Summer Signings<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While the fee for Raphinha will take a chunk out of Tuchel&#8217;s war chest it is part of the plan for the new club owners to support the German manager and provide him with a squad capable of securing a top-four finish in the upcoming campaign.<\/p>\n<p>What the Brazilian will bring to London is an attacking flair with the occasional goal to boot as he netted 17 times in 65 Premier League games for his (soon-to-be-former?) team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leeds United attacker Raphinha has been subject to a lot of interest in this summer transfer window. The player&#8217;s attacking displays for the club last season attracted interest from some major teams like Chelsea, Arsenal, and Barcelona, with all three making advances throughout the current off-season. David Ornstein of The Athletic has issued an exclusive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":614397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7188,11,6443],"tags":[6790],"class_list":["post-614395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rumours","category-chelsea","category-leeds-united","tag-raphinha"],"modified_by":"Dylan Guest, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}