{"id":16366,"date":"2026-07-11T08:18:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T08:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=16366"},"modified":"2026-07-11T08:18:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T08:18:31","slug":"manager-wants-to-stop-keeper-from-leaving-as-chelsea-and-psg-circle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=16366","title":{"rendered":"Manager Wants To Stop Keeper From Leaving As Chelsea And PSG Circle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<article>\n<p><strong>Porto head coach Francesco Farioli said he would go so far as to close the airport and the roads to stop Chelsea transfer target Diogo Costa from leaving.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Reports<\/strong> in the Portuguese media claim that Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain had scouts watching the Portuguese international against Croatia last Friday. Asked about his keeper\u2019s future, Farioli said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not want my words to attract the interest of other clubs, just to say that I hope he will come back soon. FC Porto is his home. We hope he will be back soon, after we close the airport and also the road\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, honestly, FC Porto is his home. I always wish him the best for his career, but I hope his career is here with us at FC Porto.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Neither Farioli nor Porto can stop Costa from leaving<\/h2>\n<p>The 26-year-old only signed a new four-and-a-half-year contract before Christmas, but it was publicly confirmed that the goalkeeper can be snapped up for \u20ac60m (\u00a351m) due to a new release clause.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sra_unit\"><link rel=\"stylesheet\" id=\"block-sra\" href=\"https:\/\/chelseanews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/snack-related-articles\/dist\/css\/snack-related.min.css?230424-120159\" type=\"text\/css\" media=\"all\"\/>\n<aside class=\"sra-group sra-related-list\">\n<h2 class=\"sra-group-head\">Most Read on Chelsea News<\/h2>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>Clubs are usually reluctant to pay such a sizeable fee upfront, but Costa\u2019s availability does make a move for him this summer very tempting.<\/p>\n<h2>Chelsea may not prioritise the signing of a new no.1<\/h2>\n<p><smartframe-embed customer-id=\"b0c95bc04383cef69c6b47df872135cf\" v=\"f216f6d5d0b6ef819f6e02bf8357cefd\" image-id=\"WmOBXBK8u88Z\" theme=\"iy-theme\" style=\"width: 100%; display: inline-flex; aspect-ratio: 1.5; max-width: 6000px;\"\/><!-- https:\/\/smartframe.io\/embedding-support --><br \/>With Filip Jorgensen expected to be sold before the transfer window closes, along with Gabriel Slonina, there is room for a new keeper to be brought in.<\/p>\n<p>However, it has been suggested that Mike Penders could well be given the gloves following his return from a loan spell at Strasbourg.<\/p>\n<p>Manager Xabi Alonso will have to make a decision on Penders and Robert Sanchez in pre-season, but there is still a chance that if the Spaniard is not happy with either option, he may ask for a new no.1, with Costa seemingly among the leading candidates to be signed.<\/p>\n<\/article><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Porto head coach Francesco Farioli said he would go so far as to close the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}