{"id":655835,"date":"2025-06-17T16:40:54","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T20:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=655835"},"modified":"2025-06-17T16:43:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T20:43:33","slug":"djordje-petrovic-chelsea-departure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/06\/17\/djordje-petrovic-chelsea-departure\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Reach Transfer Agreement \u2013 But One Issue Remains"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chelsea are currently in the Club World Cup, integrating some of their new players alongside established players such as Reece James and Enzo Fernandez. It appears the Blues are looking to strengthen their squad ahead of the 2025\/26 season when they will have Champions League football to contend with. It appears Djordje Petrovic has reached an agreement with the club that he can depart should an offer of \u00a325.7 million. Ben Jacobs<\/a> has also revealed one key issue that remains.<\/p>\n

Strasbourg Eye Permanent Deal for Djordje Petrovic<\/h2>\n

Remaining Issue Could Delay Petrovic Chelsea Departure<\/h3>\n

Via his X account, Jacobs revealed Strasbourg would like to sign Petrovic<\/a> permanently, following his impressive loan spell at the club, during the 2024\/25 season. In 31 Ligue 1 appearances, the Serbian goalkeeper kept 10 clean sheets.<\/p>\n

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Jacobs also reveals there is a lingering image rights issue for the 25-year-old, but it is unclear if this would hold up any exit.<\/p>\n

Chelsea Goalkeeper Situation<\/h3>\n

Petrovic enjoyed an impressive season under Mauricio Pochettino before departing for Strasbourg on loan. <\/span>Any potential return under Enzo Maresca <\/span>was extinguished<\/span> when Petrovic <\/span>was <\/span>left<\/span> out of<\/span> the Club World Cup squad, alongside other returning <\/span>loanees<\/span>, including Raheem Sterling and Joao Felix.<\/span><\/p>\n

Chelsea <\/span>have<\/span> been heavily linked with a move for AC Milan goalkeeper Mike Maignan but <\/span>were<\/span> unable to get a deal over the line.<\/span> The club struggled in certain areas last season, with Robert Sanchez and Filip Jorgensen both making costly mistakes during the season.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Recently speaking to the media<\/a>, Maresca clarified the goalkeeping situation at Stamford Bridge: <\/span>“The keeper situation is simple, Robert is No.1, Filip is No.2, and we will analyse and judge Penders. Maignan and different players at other clubs – I don’t think it is worth talking about them.”<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chelsea are currently in the Club World Cup, integrating some of their new players alongside established players such as Reece James and Enzo Fernandez. It appears the Blues are looking to strengthen their squad ahead of the 2025\/26 season when they will have Champions League football to contend with. It appears Djordje Petrovic has reached […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4106,"featured_media":653818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_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":[3,11,30,7188],"tags":[8611,9967,4340],"class_list":["post-655835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-chelsea","category-news","category-rumours","tag-chelsea-transfer-rumours","tag-djordje-petrovic","tag-strasbourg"],"modified_by":"Ricky Carroll, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655835","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\/4106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655835"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":655840,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655835\/revisions\/655840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}