Since very little has happened in the Gonzalo Higuain to Chelsea storyline since late last week, we figured it best to stop spamming our website with vague updates with very little new information.
Having left it for a few days, we decided to have another look at the Italian newspapers, just to see what their angle was on Tuesday, and there’s been some mentionable evolution to say the least.
We’ll start with Milan, who are at the centre of all this.
At this point, they’d ideally like Higuain to move to Stamford Bridge, since they’ve targeted Genoa’s Krzysztof Piatek as a replacement, but they can’t make a move while the Argentine is still around.
That’s where Chelsea come in, needing to negotiate with Juventus, who still hold the player’s rights since Higuain is technically only in Milan on loan.
Juventus, to agree to a deal, would like to see their striker head to London on a year and a half loan, allowing him to stay with Maurizio Sarri until 2020, at which point the Blues would have to pay €27m to make the deal permanent.
Seeing as Gonzalo Higuain is 31 and Chelsea rarely do deals with players over the age of 30, it won’t come as a surprise that Marina Granovskaia isn’t exactly thrilled at the idea, and she’s prepared to wait to make everyone sweat in hope the Serie A champions lower their demands.
This all comes in Tuesday’s edition of Gazzetta dello Sport, who also reckon we will have to wait until the very end of the month before getting any closure from this deal.
Corriere dello Sport corroborate a chunk of this, especially the 18-month loan to Chelsea angle, claiming Fali Ramadani, a known intermediary in most deals involving Roman Abramovich’s club, made a ‘blitz’ in Milan to meet up with Juventus’ transfer chief Fabio Paratici, while Nicolas Higuain, Gonzalo’s brother, continues to hold talks with the Blues.
If everyone’s agreeing on this, it means it’s heading in the right direction.
The question is, what will the final outcome be? We hope you’ve got your popcorn at the ready, because we can almost guarantee you there will be a couple of twists before the end of the transfer window.
