{"id":21808,"date":"2026-07-27T08:27:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T08:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=21808"},"modified":"2026-07-27T08:27:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T08:27:43","slug":"como-and-chelsea-hit-stalemate-over-trevoh-chalobah-bonuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=21808","title":{"rendered":"Como and Chelsea hit stalemate over Trevoh Chalobah bonuses"},"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>Chelsea have formally lowered their asking price for the 27-year-old to \u20ac30 million plus bonuses, but the two clubs remain far apart on substance. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-sm md:text-(17px) leading-relaxed text-gray-700 mb-4 md:mb-5\"><span>During the meeting it emerged that the \u20ac5 million in add-ons Chelsea want included are tied to easily achievable targets, meaning their overall demand of \u20ac35 million has barely moved despite the apparent reduction in the headline fee. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-sm md:text-(17px) leading-relaxed text-gray-700 mb-4 md:mb-5\"><span>Como, whose own offer had reached around \u20ac25 million, are unwilling to accept bonus conditions that in practice guarantee Chelsea close to their original valuation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-sm md:text-(17px) leading-relaxed text-gray-700 mb-4 md:mb-5\"><span>With the gap between the two parties still considerable, it appears unlikely Chalobah will complete a move to Lake Como in the short term. The Italian club remain on standby to assess the situation, but are aware that without a softening in Chelsea&#8217;s conditions, talks are unlikely to reopen in any meaningful way. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-sm md:text-(17px) leading-relaxed text-gray-700 mb-4 md:mb-5\"><span>Como had appeared to have moved into pole position for the centre-back after Inter Milan&#8217;s earlier interest cooled, but the stalemate over bonus structures now threatens to leave that opportunity unresolved as the transfer window continues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-sm md:text-(17px) leading-relaxed text-gray-700 mb-4 md:mb-5\"><span>Chalobah made 34 Premier League appearances last season, scoring three goals, and earned a place in England&#8217;s World Cup squad under Thomas Tuchel, though he featured for only a handful of minutes as a substitute in the semi-final defeat to Argentina. His contract at Stamford Bridge runs until 2028, giving Chelsea little pressure to compromise on their valuation even as Como continue to push for a deal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-sm md:text-(17px) leading-relaxed text-gray-700 mb-4 md:mb-5\"><span>The bonus structure has become the defining sticking point of the negotiation, illustrating how far apart the two clubs remain even after Chelsea&#8217;s apparent concession on the headline fee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-sm md:text-(17px) leading-relaxed text-gray-700 mb-4 md:mb-5\"><span>Cesc F\u00e1bregas, preparing Como for their first-ever Champions League campaign, has made clear he sees Chalobah as a priority addition to strengthen the defence, but the club&#8217;s hierarchy appear unwilling to agree to bonus terms that would effectively commit them to Chelsea&#8217;s full original asking price regardless of how the transfer is structured on paper. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-sm md:text-(17px) leading-relaxed text-gray-700 mb-4 md:mb-5\"><span>Unless one side moves further, Como may be forced to explore alternative targets at centre-back before the market closes.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea have formally lowered their asking price for the 27-year-old to \u20ac30 million plus bonuses,&#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-21808","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\/21808","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=21808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21808\/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=21808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}