Jules Koundé will be ‘sacrificed’ by Sevilla this summer as Chelsea look to sign him again after missing out last year.
That’s according to La Colina de Nervion, who say Sevilla’s poor performances in Europe this season ‘will force them to sell’ a player this summer, and Koundé is the likely candidate.
He flirted with the Premier League and Chelsea last summer, and this year will be no different once he has finished the campaign in Spain.
Sevilla made a huge effort to keep him last summer in the hope there would be a big achievement this season, but that is likely to be restrained to a third straight Champions League qualification, a success in itself but less than what the club were hoping for.
They were disappointing in the Champions League and Europa League, and those poor performances mean they ‘need to sell in the summer transfer window’.
Koundé is the ‘best positioned’ to be sold off, and last summer, he was closer to the Premier League than ever before when Chelsea pushed to sign him.
They remain his ‘main suitors’ and have an advantage over their competitors as they reached a pre-agreement with him last summer when the operation fell down in the latter days of the window.
They’ll have to renegotiate with Sevilla over a deal and and ‘it would be very rare’ for Koundé to leave the club for less than €60m should he go.
That would put him among the club’s best-ever signings, given he arrived for €25m in 2019 and has helped them to win the Europa League and qualify for the Champions League three times.
Those, coupled with the likelihood of him ‘filling the coffers’ at Sevilla, make his sale one that Sevilla are more than happy to let happen.
