{"id":616173,"date":"2022-08-12T09:22:45","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T13:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=616173"},"modified":"2022-08-12T09:22:45","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T13:22:45","slug":"world-record-offer-wesley-fofana-chelsea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/12\/world-record-offer-wesley-fofana-chelsea\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Will Need to Make &#8216;World-Record Offer&#8217; for &#8216;Generational Talent&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Percy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/football\/2022\/08\/11\/chelsea-told-make-world-record-offer-sign-wesley-fofana\/?utm_content=football&amp;utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_campaign=Echobox&amp;utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1660282717-1\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Telegraph<\/a> has reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/12\/chelsea-pierre-emerick-aubemeyang-interest\/\" target=\"_self\">Chelsea<\/a> were told to make a &#8220;world-record offer&#8221; for Wesley Fofana, who is later dubbed a &#8220;generational talent&#8221; by Percy.<\/p>\n<p>Following on from comments made by <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/11\/chelsea-not-close-wesley-fofana\/\" target=\"_self\">Brendan Rodgers<\/a> that the Blues had yet to match Leicester City&#8217;s valuation, it has come out that Thomas Tuchel&#8217;s side will need to trump the \u00a380 million paid for Harry Maguire if they want to secure the services of the French defender.<\/p>\n<h2>Chelsea Must Make &#8216;World Record Offer&#8217; for Wesley Fofana<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Chelsea will have to make world-record offer to sign Wesley Fofana reports <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JPercyTelegraph?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@JPercyTelegraph<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/APd1B4rzRb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/APd1B4rzRb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Telegraph Football (@TeleFootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TeleFootball\/status\/1557970117480390656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 12, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Hard-Lined Stance<\/h3>\n<p>The Foxes are very clear in their desire to not sell the 21-year-old. With the defender not angling for a move or close to the end of his contract the club has no pressure to offload the talented youngster and will instead require eye-popping money to let him leave.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/05\/leicester-city-duo-not-for-sale\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Leicester City Duo Not for Sale This Summer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While their position is understandable it is sure to frustrate Chelsea fans who have already seen their team miss out on <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/26\/chelsea-interest-denzel-dumfries\/\" target=\"_self\">Jules Kounde<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/19\/matthijs-de-ligt-joins-bayern-munich\/\" target=\"_self\">Matthijs de Ligt<\/a>\u00a0in this window.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Leicester manager Brendan Rodgers: \u201cThere have been no new proposals for Wesley Fofana this week\u201d, he told <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OwynnPA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@OwynnPA<\/a>. \ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udd35 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LCFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#LCFC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere had been two from Chelsea, but neither came anywhere close to the valuation\u201d, Rodgers added. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#CFC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bkiCadIJxL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/bkiCadIJxL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1557710353898799105?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 11, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Is Wesley Fofana Worth It?<\/h3>\n<p>Admittedly, if you&#8217;re going to spend a world record fee on anyone it should probably be a 21-year-old with Premier League experience who won&#8217;t need time to adjust to the league. In saying that, this kind of fee will bring with it a tremendous pressure to deliver which could knock the Frenchman off form if he doesn&#8217;t hit the ground running.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/19\/new-chelsea-ownership-offload-expensive-contracts\/\" target=\"_self\">New Chelsea Ownership Looking to Offload Expensive Contracts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Todd Boehly and co. have already invested a lot of money in this off-season to strengthen the team. Paying out a world-record fee may be a bridge too far this year especially as the squad is still trying to offload some of the expensive deadweights of the Abramovich era. The big issue is, the defender&#8217;s value may only go up as the years go by, \u00a380 million-plus may end up being a bargain in a few years time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Percy of The Telegraph has reported that Chelsea were told to make a &#8220;world-record offer&#8221; for Wesley Fofana, who is later dubbed a &#8220;generational talent&#8221; by Percy. Following on from comments made by Brendan Rodgers that the Blues had yet to match Leicester City&#8217;s valuation, it has come out that Thomas Tuchel&#8217;s side will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":616186,"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":[7188,11,15,3],"tags":[1407,9358,6608],"class_list":["post-616173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rumours","category-chelsea","category-leicester-city","category-premier-league","tag-chelsea-transfers","tag-leicester-city-transfers","tag-wesley-fofana"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616173","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=616173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}