{"id":625959,"date":"2023-08-02T15:31:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T19:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=625959"},"modified":"2023-08-02T15:56:55","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T19:56:55","slug":"chelsea-weighing-up-dusan-vlahovic-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/08\/02\/chelsea-weighing-up-dusan-vlahovic-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cNew Round of Talks\u201d: Chelsea Weighing up Player Plus Cash Deal for \u2018Extraordinary\u2019 Serie A Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Romelu Lukaku&#8217;s future at Chelsea has been in doubt since his return from Inter Milan and the Blues are now weighing up a possible swap deal with Juventus for Dusan Vlahovic, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZMu_4ALpmbM\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fabrizio Romano<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Chelsea Weighing up Deal for Dusan Vlahovic<\/h2>\n<h3>The Blues&#8217; Transfer Business So Far<\/h3>\n<p>There has been a string of players leaving Stamford Bridge this summer as new boss Mauricio Pochettino shapes his squad ahead of the new campaign. Club legend Cesar Azpilicueta has left alongside N&#8217;Golo Kante, Edouard Mendy, Kalidou Koulibaly, Mateo Kovacic, Kai Havertz, Mason Mount and Ruben Loftus-Cheek.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch: <\/strong>Mauricio Pochettino&#8217;s Secret Strategy for Chelsea Success<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Poch&#039;s Secret Strategy for Chelsea Success\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d1ol0guPjyE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>With such an exodus of players, the West London club have been centre stage during the transfer window with the side linked to a mountain of stars.<\/p>\n<p>Moses Caicedo has been a long-term target, but there have been stumbling blocks in terms of agreeing on a fee with Brighton and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/08\/02\/lavia-green-light-liverpool-transfer\/\" target=\"_self\">Romeo Lavia<\/a> has also been linked with a move to Stamford Bridge to fill the vacated midfield roles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/07\/31\/chelsea-38-million-axel-disasi-fofana-replacement\/\" target=\"_self\">Chelsea Poised to Sign \u00a338 Million Manchester United Target as Fofana Replacement<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In defence, Axel Disasi is on the verge of moving from AS Monaco in a reported \u00a338.57 million deal, whilst Levi Colwill is close to putting pen-to-paper on a new six-year contract with the club. Robert Sanchez is also reportedly a target to come in and compete for the No.1 spot with Kepa Arrizabalaga.<\/p>\n<p>The club have also been proactive in acquiring new forwards, bringing in Nicolas Jackson from Villareal and Christopher Nkunku from RB Leipzig, however, Pochettino is still in the market for a more experienced centre forward.<\/p>\n<h3>&#8216;Internal Discussions&#8217; Taking Place with Juventus<\/h3>\n<p>As per Romano, Chelsea had already decided against a move for Vlahovic as part of any deal for Lukaku at the beginning of July, but the club are now weighing up entering into negotiations for the Serbian striker.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian journalist has said that discussions between the two clubs are taking place via &#8220;intermediaries&#8221; but that the Blues hierarchy are &#8220;discussing internally&#8221; whether to proceed with a swap deal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/08\/01\/chelsea-bid-michael-olise-exclusive\/\" target=\"_self\">Exclusive: Chelsea Preparing Opening Bid For \u2018Unbelievable\u2019 Star<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/08\/01\/chelsea-bid-michael-olise-exclusive\/\" target=\"_self\"> &#8211;<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/08\/01\/chelsea-bid-michael-olise-exclusive\/\" target=\"_self\"> Could Happen in Coming Days<\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, <span title=\"Italian-language text\">I<i lang=\"it\"> Bianconeri <\/i><\/span>are &#8220;insisting&#8221; on receiving around \u00a334 million as part of the deal. Vlahovic has been described as an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footitalia.com\/bernardeschi-vlahovic-is-an-extraordinary-player\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;extraordinary&#8221;<\/a> player by his international coach Dragan Stojkovic ahead of the World Cup in Qatar and had been on Arsenal&#8217;s radar before securing a move to Turin in January 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old could certainly suit the Premier League with his physicality and his eye for goal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo Credit: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/8r1ght\/6283536615\/in\/photolist-azfLwc-6fSWMq-2jEQ79Q-2jETx8Q-azipUW-azioCE-843J9X-24GH6EF-2jEQ7vw-68btbV-XcZvwv-68fEVf-a23vPj-KbETB4-4BNp8V-2jCLXmL-2jETwQv-8TXEAh-ze8CZU-2jCHtC2-28QDnNi-8JYL8c-7cvc13-2jCM1ts-d3RiMQ-67727j-dC5W8q-bHeCfB-nLWAf-95N939-2jCHudq-dhQyHy-buv77o-c2fWxb-7crsYR-2jCHqZS-4r3Zqc-bb8DJB-7Qt6eT-qrEe2D-6771XN-c2gd4b-GWgoq-2nJF5Bf-2jCHpYt-nLWku-K6f815-cN4Riq-4L2o1U-8nKAkm\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tom<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CC BY-SA 2.0<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romelu Lukaku&#8217;s future at Chelsea has been in doubt since his return from Inter Milan and the Blues are now weighing up a possible swap deal with Juventus for Dusan Vlahovic, according to Fabrizio Romano. Chelsea Weighing up Deal for Dusan Vlahovic The Blues&#8217; Transfer Business So Far There has been a string of players [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4732,"featured_media":625126,"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":[11,3,7188],"tags":[8611,8500,299],"class_list":["post-625959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea","category-premier-league","category-rumours","tag-chelsea-transfer-rumours","tag-dusan-vlahovic","tag-romelu-lukaku"],"modified_by":"Ricky Carroll, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625959","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\/4732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}