{"id":617366,"date":"2022-09-01T14:38:46","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T18:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=617366"},"modified":"2022-09-01T14:38:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T18:38:46","slug":"psv-star-chelsea-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/09\/01\/psv-star-chelsea-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Target Expected to Remain at Current Club as Blues Look Elsewhere for Midfield Reinforcements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/09\/01\/ajax-not-selling-edson-alvarez\/\" target=\"_self\">Chelsea<\/a> target Ibrahim Sangare is expected to remain at current club PSV Eindhoven, reports <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonathanShrager\/status\/1565313104476610560\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jonathan Shrager<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues have been in the market for a defensive midfielder this deadline day but have closed a move for a <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/09\/01\/fabrizio-romano-here-we-go-chelsea-zakaria\/\" target=\"_self\">different target<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Chelsea Target Ibrahim Sangare to Remain at PSV Eindhoven<\/strong><\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Whilst they have recently expressed interest, I am told that Chelsea have so far not made an offer to PSV for Ibrahim Sangar\u00e9, and so the player is expected to stay at Eindhoven, as it stands right now<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jonathan Shrager (@JonathanShrager) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonathanShrager\/status\/1565313104476610560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 1, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3><strong>PSV Hoping to Hold On<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Shrager said: \u201cWhilst they have recently expressed interest, I am told that Chelsea have so far not made an offer to PSV for Ibrahim Sangare,&#8221; so any deal being done there would be at the 11th hour.<\/p>\n<p>Sangare isn\u2019t the only PSV man who has potential suitors. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RikElfrink\/status\/1565356603997667333\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rik Elfrink<\/a> adds that, with both Sangare and Gakpo both close to exits, the Dutch giants would prefer to sell the latter.<\/p>\n<p>The Dutch side will be hoping to hang on to the pair but they aren\u2019t strangers to moving on their biggest stars. In recent seasons, the likes of Hirving Lozano, Donyell Malen and Mario Gotze have departed after performing well in Eindhoven.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/09\/01\/cody-gakpo-set-to-stay-psv\/\" target=\"_self\">Premier League-Bound Forward Set to Stay at Current Club<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>News on Other Chelsea Interest<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Thomas Tuchel is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football.london\/chelsea-fc\/transfer-news\/chelsea-sangare-transfer-scare-wakeup-24900936\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">keen to add<\/a> a long-term replacement for either Jorginho or N&#8217;Golo Kante.<\/p>\n<p>Both players see their contracts at Stamford Bridge come to an end next year, so the links to Sangare and other defensive midfielders make plenty of sense.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Ibrahim Sangar\u00e9 deal is currently off \u2014 nothing going on right now, unless Chelsea submit an huge proposal later, it won\u2019t happen. \ud83d\udd35\u274c <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>Rumours on Denis Zakaria are also wide of mark. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DeadlineDay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#DeadlineDay<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1RccMtbtOg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/1RccMtbtOg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1565363303278432256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 1, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>As well as bringing in midfield reinforcements, the Blues are looking to add depth at the back too.<\/p>\n<p>They have already signed Wesley Fofana and Kalidou Koulibaly and have shown interest in both <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1553674913638227970?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1553674913638227970%7Ctwgr%5Eb220294c298aba4db04c20df970a6bdd25a028ec%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Flastwordonsports.com%2Ffootball%2F2022%2F08%2F02%2Fchelsea-josko-gvardiol-timo-werner%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Josko Gvardiol<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JacobsBen\/status\/1565346153583251457\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Edson Alvarez<\/a> throughout the transfer window.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea target Ibrahim Sangare is expected to remain at current club PSV Eindhoven, reports Jonathan Shrager. The Blues have been in the market for a defensive midfielder this deadline day but have closed a move for a different target. Chelsea Target Ibrahim Sangare to Remain at PSV Eindhoven Whilst they have recently expressed interest, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3891,"featured_media":617402,"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":[11,8425,3,7188],"tags":[1407,9422],"class_list":["post-617366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea","category-eredivisie","category-premier-league","category-rumours","tag-chelsea-transfers","tag-ibrahim-sangare"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617366","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\/3891"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}