{"id":614609,"date":"2022-07-05T02:49:27","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T06:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=614609"},"modified":"2022-07-05T02:49:27","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T06:49:27","slug":"chelsea-change-transfer-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/05\/chelsea-change-transfer-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Change Defensive Transfer Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Early in the transfer window, it appeared that Chelsea<\/a> would chase Sevilla man Jules Kounde<\/a> to replace Antonio Rudiger<\/a> and Andreas Christensen. However, a new report from Fabrizio Romano via CaughtOffside<\/a> mentions that the club may have changed course and the French defender is no longer a priority.<\/p>\n

Romano mentioned that Kounde was a target of Marina Granovskaia, while the new owner and handler of transfers Todd Boehly has set his sights on other targets.<\/p>\n

Chelsea Change Defensive Transfer Strategy Under New Ownership<\/h2>\n

New Targets<\/h3>\n

Instead of the 23-year-old French defender, the London side are focusing their intent on Juventus<\/a>‘ Matthijs de Ligt and Manchester City man Nathan Ake, a former blue himself. Barcelona are also interested<\/a> in the Sevilla man which could present a further issue if the Blues were to follow up their initial interest.<\/p>\n

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Boehly has come in like a wrecking ball and set about getting deals done for the players he and manager Thomas Tuchel want, Kounde could be a casualty of this as the club focuses their attention on a reunion with Ake and acquiring Juventus’ star defender.<\/p>\n

New Plans, New Tactics?<\/h3>\n

According to a new report from The Athletic<\/a>, German boss Tuchel has an increased role in transfers as he looks to build a data-driven squad capable of playing the football he wants. With this comes the mention that he may be aiming to change formation next season from a 3-4-3 to something with a back four.<\/p>\n

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A back four puts less pressure on the club to sign high-quality centre-backs which would make Ake and De Ligt perfect additions, one versatile option who can provide depth, and one to partner Thiago Silva full time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Early in the transfer window, it appeared that Chelsea would chase Sevilla man Jules Kounde to replace Antonio Rudiger and Andreas Christensen. However, a new report from Fabrizio Romano via CaughtOffside mentions that the club may have changed course and the French defender is no longer a priority. Romano mentioned that Kounde was a target […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":614645,"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":[11,2,7188],"tags":[6667,1988,1226],"class_list":["post-614609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea","category-featured","category-rumours","tag-jules-kounde","tag-matthijs-de-ligt","tag-nathan-ake"],"modified_by":"Dale Ventham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614609","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=614609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}