We’ve heard all about Chelsea’s interest in Kalidou Koulibaly, with Ronald Koeman’s Everton right behind them, but official offers were something of a mystery, it seems.
This tends to happen a lot, with many newspapers strongly reporting interests and such, mostly because it sounds good, with nothing actually happening in the end.
Well, it seems that La Repubblica are reporting that Chelsea have made the move we’ve all been expecting them to make, with an offer of €45m (£37.8m) ending up on Napoli’s transfer desk (or whichever desk they end up on).
However, it seems Aurelio De Laurentiis is going to be his normal stubborn self as the Italian newspaper say he’s built a wall around the defender and wants him to renew.
The player’s agent recently revealed all parties were some way off an agreement, with the player wanting to leave.
Napoli are said to be studying alternatives in case one of the two Premier League clubs manage to scale Napoli’s wall, with Torino’s Maksimovic a €20m option.
