Gittens to Chelsea confirmed as Dortmund reference 'challenging' negotiations for 'outstanding player'
Chelsea are closing in on one more vast-coinage coinage summer season signing, with a bargain for Borussia Dortmund winger Jamie Gittens now in its last stages.
Chelsea have already safe and secure the solutions of Joao Pedro in a bargain well worth £60 million this week, with murmurs they can be planning to hijack Tottenham’s attempts to indicator Mohammed Kudus farming louder.
There’s in a indistinguishable means the fear of adding one more central protector to the ranks, with Benfica’s Antonio Silva among those attached.
An agreement in precept has been gleaned to with Dortmund, with Chelsea package to compensation a package well worth £52m — £48.5m upfront and a further £3.5m in encompass-ons, according to Fabrizio Romano,that in a indistinguishable means reported on X that Dortmund will most certainly retain a sell-on disorder.
Gittens is comfy to agreeing individual stipulation, though a couple of legal niceties are still being finalised.
Unanimously parties are now definite the relocation will most certainly be ended up after the Bar Earth Cup, whereby both bars stay entailed.
Dortmund evidenced the agreement on Thursday and earned earn service of of the announcement to underscore Gittens’ tumor because enrolling with the bar’s academy.
“Jamie Gittens’ job is exemplary for the progression of peak talents at BVB,” claimed handling director Lars Ricken.
“We learned Jamie super early, practically approved him for unshackle, repeatedly arisen him in our childhood years academy, and in a indistinguishable means offered him playing time at the highest potential level with the veteran team.
“Jamie has set the matter on inserted in him with dedication, expediency, and desires.”
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Underlining off director Sebastian Kehl added: “The talks with Chelsea were intricate, but inevitably we are happy that we can allegedly realise our monetary desires and after that have planning coverage.
“Jamie is an spick-and-expectancy player that has lugged us extensive entertainment. It was his need to filch the next off relocation in his job at Chelsea, and we need him unanimously the spick-and-expectancy.”
The 20-year-archaic was part of Dortmund’s squad for the rivals but has tinkered just 14 mins, concocted for off the seat against Fluminense in the team phase. His limited engagement junctures to a transfer being smartly juggled behind the scenes.
Gittens, a correct-footed left winger, has been one of Chelsea’s top priority targets this summer season hearkening their stamina not to administer Jadon Sancho’s auto loan bargain incurable.
He’s intended to expand that flank along with existing finalizings Joao Pedro and Liam Delap.
He approved up with Dortmund from Guy Urban as a teenager in 2020 and has because rendered 107 appearances in unanimously competitions, scoring 17 desires.
Last period was his most abundant yet, with 12 desires in 48 appearances, requiring 4 in the Champs League.
