{"id":618526,"date":"2022-10-10T04:04:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T08:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=618526"},"modified":"2022-10-10T04:04:01","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T08:04:01","slug":"chelsea-denis-zakaria-future-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/10\/10\/chelsea-denis-zakaria-future-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Fabrizio Romano: Graham Potter to Have Discussions With Exiled Midfielder Once Compared to Toni Kroos Over His Chelsea Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/10\/03\/usmnt-star-dumbfounded-thomas-tuchel\/\" target=\"_self\">Chelsea<\/a> manager Graham Potter will have discussions soon with summer signing Denis Zakaria over his future at the club, confirms <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1579107347724922880?s=20&amp;t=30vDUw5gm2FCG1QdcKAhdQ\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fabrizio Romano<\/a>. This comes after the Switzerland midfielder has not even played a single minute of football with the Blues since <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/09\/07\/chelsea-thomas-tuchel-sacked\/\" target=\"_self\">Thomas Tuchel was replaced<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Chelsea to Have Discussions Over Denis Zakaria\u2019s Future<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Denis Zakaria has not played a single minute with Chelsea, as of now. He\u2019s in difficult position as Thomas Tuchel wanted him while Juventus had him in consideration. \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>\u2026but with Graham Potter, 0 minutes and he\u2019s not even on the bench.<\/p>\n<p>It will be discussed soon. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4xQoaFqQbC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/4xQoaFqQbC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1579107347724922880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 9, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Zakaria Left in No-Man&#8217;s Land After Tuchel\u2019s Exit<\/h3>\n<p>The decision to sign the 25-year-old midfielder was that of Thomas Tuchel, who wanted to have more options in the midfield after the shaky start to the new season. That is why Chelsea worked swiftly to sign him on loan from Juventus for this season, with an option to make the move permanent next year.<\/p>\n<p>Romano adds that he has been left in a &#8216;difficult position&#8217; since moving to Stamford Bridge, as he is yet to play a single minute of football or make his debut since joining on deadline day last month. Before moving to the London side, Zakaria was considered as a potential squad option for Juventus &#8211; who wanted to keep him and probably would&#8217;ve rotated him with other options. But the midfielder decided to go through with the deal and has been left in a difficult situation right now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/10\/05\/chelsea-christopher-nkunku-transfer\/\" target=\"_self\">Chelsea In Pole Position for Christopher Nkunku Signing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Potter will speak to the Swiss midfielder about his future after not even keeping him in his matchday squad for the three games he&#8217;s managed them <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/09\/10\/chelsea-graham-potter-wages\/\" target=\"_self\">since taking over last month<\/a>. It&#8217;ll only be after those discussions that the 25-year-old will be sure of what lies in his future at Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n<h3>Zakaria Ending Up as Chelsea\u2019s Most Inefficient Summer Signing<\/h3>\n<p>The London side splurged over a record \u00a3250 million on new signings in the summer, with Todd Boehly bringing in eight new players &#8211; with some being for the future and some to immediately improve the squad. Zakaria was among the first-team signings, but has ended up as a total flop so far &#8211; not even having made his debut for Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/10\/02\/chelsea-christian-pulisic-graham-potter\/\" target=\"_self\">Graham Potter Excited to Work With Christian Pulisic<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Blues reportedly paid a \u00a32.7 million loan fee for the Swiss international, who was once given big praise by German legend Lothar Matthaus &#8211; who claimed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetfootball.com\/quick-reads\/he-reminds-me-of-kroos-seven-quotes-about-liverpool-target-denis-zakaria\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he reminded him of Real Madrid midfielder Toni Kroos<\/a>. But the 25-year-old&#8217;s future is now riddled with uncertainty as Chelsea are yet to decide what to do with him.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Denis Zakaria has point to prove as he takes on Chelsea challenge <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qW7Bqfchy7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/qW7Bqfchy7<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/z8salI7PEF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/z8salI7PEF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Indy Sport (@IndySport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IndySport\/status\/1578358116651077633?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 7, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div style=\"position: static !important;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea manager Graham Potter will have discussions soon with summer signing Denis Zakaria over his future at the club, confirms Fabrizio Romano. This comes after the Switzerland midfielder has not even played a single minute of football with the Blues since Thomas Tuchel was replaced. Chelsea to Have Discussions Over Denis Zakaria\u2019s Future Denis Zakaria [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4218,"featured_media":618532,"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":[3,11,30],"tags":[7508,8611,2024,1895,530],"class_list":["post-618526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-chelsea","category-news","tag-chelsea-news","tag-chelsea-transfer-rumours","tag-graham-potter","tag-thomas-tuchel","tag-toni-kroos"],"modified_by":"Declan Wiseman, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618526","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\/4218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}