Chelsea player expected to reach agreement with new club ‘within next 48 hours’ – Talks ‘accelerated’ this weekend

With France playing Germany on Tuesday evening, Olivier Giroud will be solely focused on the task at hand.

However, behind the scenes and far away from where the Frenchman is currently staying, work is being done to try and get him a move away from Chelsea to Milan.

That’s what Gazzetta dello Sport are reporting on Monday, claiming the Serie A side have ‘decided to speed up the times for Olivier Giroud’.

Negotiations about his wages and new contract in Italy ‘took off’ over the weekend, and ‘everything suggests that, within the next 48 hours, there will be an understanding for the actual contract’.

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There is currently a two-year deal on the table, or a three-year one ‘with easy ways out’, and that needs to be sorted is the actual salary the player will earn.

Nothing has changed regarding the transfer itself, since Milan ‘do not intend to pay compensation’ to Chelsea for the move, and Giroud’s entourage have ‘also reiterated in the last few hours that they had the guarantee of being able to free themselves at no cost’.

That’s why thinking have ‘accelerated’, as the Italians try to work on the ‘essential’ transition that will take place up front, as Zlatan Ibrahimović edges towards his retirement.