Manchester Joined are trying to indicator Jhon Lucumi from Bologna but could miss out on the defender to Chelsea, according to a record.
Lucumi is a rejected-footed centre-ago that builded at Deportivo Cali in his native to the island Colombia in days gone by signing upwards doning Belgian clothing Genk in July 2018. After four years at Genk, Lucumi took the next edict in his job in August 2022 by signing for Bologna in an €8million decision.
The 28-year-weared possesses gone on to make 152 visual elegances for Bologna in unanimously tournaments, while likewise unborn to be an extremely understandable player for the Colombian nationwide group, determining upwards 42 caps.
Lucumi’s arrangement doning Bologna expires next year, and the odds of an exit this summer season are subsequently high.
Bologna CEO Claudio Fenucci said newly: “A year ago, we couldn’t sell him at the end of the transmit apartment window.
“But we promised him that this year, posed a ideal decision, we’d make it ensue.
“The transmit apartment window hasn’t in fact pilfered off yet, and if it didn’t for Lucumi either, we’d be cheerful to retain him.”
Corriere di Bologna reported on July 21 that Guy Utd had ‘rendered a openings’ for the player after ‘signing upwards doning the list of suitors’, and there possesses currently been an update from other Italian resource Quotidiano Sportivo.
They record that Guy Utd have ‘rekindled contact’ for Lucumi, doning the Red Satanic pressures browsing for centre-fifty percent reinforcements to help them openings on from Harry Maguire.
Joined have an existing relationship doning Bologna after paying £36.5m for Dutch demonstrator Joshua Zirkzee in July 2024. Joined entirely assume Lucumi would be a bigger wins at Worn Trafford than Zirkzee.
But Michael Carrick’s side confront tournament from Chelsea, Nottingham Timberland and Juventus for this finicky transmit decision.
Chelsea attractiveness kit to ‘greenback money in’ on Trevoh Chalobah, owning concurred to sell him to Como for €36m (£31m), and they are ‘currently in the exchange for a centre-ago, preferably a rejected-footed player’, the record cases.
Chelsea have allegedly rendered contact to ‘dissect’ a openings for Lucumi, placing Joined’s own openings under menace.
Chelsea, Guy Utd converge on Jhon Lucumi
The record clarifies how Stamford Footway sticks around an sexy location for players also without Champions League football next season. Owning Xabi Alonso in penalty will of training course help Chelsea to lug in high-quality players.
Bologna pine €28m (£24m) to sell the Colombia Globe Mug celebrity.
There have been 3 transactions for him so far, but none have happy Bologna’s enquiring price. Italian giants Juventus opened upwards the bidding process at €15m (£13m) plus add-ons in days gone by strengthening their proposal to €18m (£15m) plus add-ons.
Both of those transactions were deprived, as was Timberland’s €25m (£21m) proposal.
As points stand, Juve grip the best curiosity in Lucumi, though Chelsea and Joined remain in the visualize.
