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Confirmed: Barca Agree 4-Year Deal With Kounde As Club Set To Hijack Another Chelsea’s Target

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Jul 25, 2022.

Benard Joseph

Barca Agree 4-Year Deal With Kounde As Club Set To Hijack Another Chelsea’s Target
Chelsea look set to miss out on Jules Kounde, who is now edging closer to signing for Barcelona…

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EKO HOT BLOG reports that Chelsea faces another potential heartbreak on a second successive transfer target with Jules Kounde set to snub the Blues for Barcelona after agreeing on a four-year deal with the Catalan giants.

Reports in Spain suggest the Catalan giants have agreed a deal with Sevilla and the Frenchman has now agreed personal terms with Barca ahead of his impending switch to Camp Nou.

Chelsea were the firm favourites for Kounde earlier this week when they tabled a proposal worth £55m but Sevilla are still yet to accept their offer as frustrations grow in west London.

Instead, the Andalusian club have been encouraging Barcelona to make their move as part of their plan to encourage an auction but it seems Kounde would now favour a move to Barcelona over joining Chelsea.

According to SPORT, Barcelona have now agreed a deal worth an initial £42.5m plus £9m in add-ons as the deal continues to gather pace.

The report adds Barcelona hope to complete the transfer this coming week. While Barcelona’s offer will fall short of the £55m bid tabled by Chelsea, they plan to pay their entire fee up front and believe Sevilla will accept their terms.

While Xavi did not directly respond to questions over Barcelona’s bid to sign Kounde, the Barcelona boss insisted ‘we are trying to reinforce all positions, that is what we are doing’ following the pre-season win over Real Madrid in Las Vegas.

According to AS, Xavi has already spoken to Kounde, telling the defender he plans to make him a key member of first-team this season.

The report claims that Kounde is ‘flattered and excited’ by Xavi’s message and has given Barcelona’s head coach his word that he will wait for the Spanish club to agree a deal with Sevilla.

Chelsea meanwhile have already signed Kalidou Koulibaly from Napoli this summer but Thomas Tuchel wants to sign at least one more defender.

Following Sunday’s 4-0 thrashing to Arsenal in Florida, the Blues boss once again re-iterated the need for the club to make more new signings in the coming weeks.

My analysing of the season does not change because of this game. Unfortunately, it proved my point. The last week proves my point. I would absolutely prefer not to be right. I did everything to prove myself wrong but at the moment I feel that I was right,’ Tuchel said.

‘I look at the last season and parts of the game where we struggled, parts of the season where we struggled, and then we got sanctioned and players left us and some players are trying to leave us, and this is where it is.

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‘So we had an urgent appeal for quality players, a huge amount of quality players. We got two quality players but we are not competitive like this. Unfortunately, you could see it today.’

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