Earlier on Friday, we covered a story from L’Equipe stating that Chelsea had put forward an offer of €27.5m for Elye Wahi.
That was as far as the Blues were ready to go, despite Montpellier wanting €30m for their star player, and a stalemate was currently taking place.
Whether Chelsea go any further remains to be seen, but there is a feeling that they are just happy to bide their time, which is what the Ligue 1 side also intend to do, as revealed by their president Louis Nicollin in an interview with RMC Sport.
In what could either encourage or frustrate Chelsea, he replied: “There is no deadline. We are August 3rd. We agreed on an exit. We’ll think about it if the league starts and maybe we’ll put a deadline. There’s a month left of the transfer window. We’ve said certain things to each other.
“He’s training, we’ll see with him. If there’s nothing come the 20th or the 25th of August, we aren’t more stupid than anyone else. We’ll talk. He’ll be available for the first-team.”
Therefore, a game of chicken certainly could work in Chelsea’s favour, but, at the end of the day, Montpellier will always have the final say.
Despite Wahi wanting to leave and having made that clear to his current club, if the Blues don’t increase their offer, he might see that chance slip away, and the Premier League side move onto other targets.
