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Chelsea are serious about Bayer Leverkusen\u2019s Kerim Alajbegovi\u0107 and moving forward to secure his services this summer.<\/strong><\/p>\n A week ago, we relayed news from Bosnia that Chelsea have entered the race for the 18-year-old at Xabi Alonso\u2019s request.<\/p>\n Last weekend, Sport Witness covered claims from Italy that he has an agreement with Atalanta.<\/p>\n Amid the Premier League side\u2019s interest, the winger favoured La Dea, who are unwilling to meet Bayern Leverkusen\u2019s \u20ac30m request.<\/p>\n Sport Mediaset report Atalanta, Juventus, Fiorentina and AC Milan have all shown interest in the Bosnia and Herzegovina international.<\/p>\n The Serie A sides face a threat from Chelsea, who have a \u2018strong interest\u2019. The Blues are in direct contact with Bayer Leverkusen and are ready to meet their demand. However, there is no agreement in place with the youngster.<\/p>\n Saturday\u2019s edition of Bild states Xabi Alonso contacted his former club to register interest in the player.<\/p>\n Kerim Alajbegovi\u0107 returned to the German club from Red Bull Salzburg, after the former exercised their buyback option. He is currently on a break and is scheduled to return to the club on Monday.<\/p>\n However, he may not return to Bayer Leverkusen at all. That\u2019s because Bild states it\u2019s \u2018quite possible\u2019 his transfer to Chelsea will go through this weekend.<\/p>\n Recent claims from the UK have stated the west London club are serious. Kicker picks up on that and then shares their own updates.<\/p>\n The London club are not only keen but have also submitted an initial offer.<\/p>\n That includes over \u20ac30m in fixed fee rising to \u20ac40m with performances related bonuses.<\/p>\n Kicker explain negotiations between the clubs are ongoing for Kerim Alajbegovi\u0107 and \u2018a swift agreement seems likely.\u2019<\/p>\n Chelsea\u2019s approach makes it difficult for his Italian suitors to sign him, also because Bayer Leverkusen are refusing to accept a fee below \u20ac30m.<\/p>\n Xabi Alonso & co. have to present a development plan, and Kicker believe this could include a loan move.<\/p>\n Kicker states: \u2018Alajbegovi\u0107 had always ruled out such a move from Bayer to another club. But for the chance to join such a top club, the Bosnian would also consider a subsequent loan, though only to a club that itself competes at a high level.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n This indicates he could end up at Chelsea, if they plan ends up convincing the player.<\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chelsea are serious about Bayer Leverkusen\u2019s Kerim Alajbegovi\u0107 and moving forward to secure his services…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21227","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\/21227","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=21227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Chelsea taking concrete steps<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Player\u2019s decision on Chelsea pending <\/strong><\/h2>\n
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