{"id":17982,"date":"2026-07-16T16:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T16:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=17982"},"modified":"2026-07-16T16:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T16:05:07","slug":"como-and-inter-avoid-bidding-war-chase-for-chelsea-defender-chalobah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=17982","title":{"rendered":"Como and Inter avoid bidding war chase for Chelsea defender Chalobah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"text-sm md:text-(17px) leading-relaxed text-gray-700 mb-4 md:mb-5\"><span>Chalobah, 27, is available for around \u00a335m and has spent this summer at the World Cup with England, where his club future will be resolved once the tournament finishes. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-sm md:text-(17px) leading-relaxed text-gray-700 mb-4 md:mb-5\"><span>Como have already had two proposals rejected by Chelsea but are preparing to return with a fresh offer, according to club president Mirwan Suwarso, who addressed the situation in comments to <\/span><span><em>Tuttosport<\/em><\/span><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-sm md:text-(17px) leading-relaxed text-gray-700 mb-4 md:mb-5\"><span>Suwarso revealed he had spoken directly to Inter Milan chairman Giuseppe Marotta to defuse any sense of rivalry between the two Italian clubs. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-sm md:text-(17px) leading-relaxed text-gray-700 mb-4 md:mb-5\"><span>&#8220;We&#8217;ve been the subject of media reports about us competing with another Italian team for a British player,&#8221; he said. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"border-l-4 border-burnt pl-4 md:pl-5 my-5 md:my-8 text-base md:text-xl font-semibold leading-snug text-gray-800 italic\"><p><span>&#8220;I said, &#8216;You know what? Why don&#8217;t I call the president of the other team and ask him, Do you want him? If you want him, go ahead, we&#8217;ll back out. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"text-sm md:text-(17px) leading-relaxed text-gray-700 mb-4 md:mb-5\"><span>&#8220;But if you buy him, give me one of your players.&#8217; And he said, &#8216;Thanks for the call. I appreciate it, we&#8217;ll let you know by the end of the day. If we don&#8217;t go ahead, these are the other objectives we were pursuing. We&#8217;re happy to share them with you.&#8217; So, for me, this type of relationship is beneficial for both clubs; it helps us all grow.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-sm md:text-(17px) leading-relaxed text-gray-700 mb-4 md:mb-5\"><span>Inter&#8217;s interest in Chalobah forms part of a wider search for defensive reinforcements, with the Serie A champions also known to have discussed free agent John Stones as well as Tottenham pair Cristian Romero and Djed Spence as alternative options at centre-back. Marotta&#8217;s side want to bring in two new centre-backs this summer, meaning Chalobah is just one of several names under consideration rather than a settled priority.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-sm md:text-(17px) leading-relaxed text-gray-700 mb-4 md:mb-5\"><span>For Como, meanwhile, Chalobah represents one of the more ambitious targets in a summer defined by continued investment as the club looks to build on last season&#8217;s return to Serie A, with Suwarso&#8217;s approach to Marotta underlining how the two clubs are trying to avoid an expensive bidding war over the same player.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chalobah, 27, is available for around \u00a335m and has spent this summer at the World&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17982","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\/17982","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=17982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}