Chelsea ‘offer’ Liverpool target to European giant to ‘make the operation’ for €127m man ‘cheaper’

Chelsea are reportedly interesting to label Joao Felix permanently and they are hoping La Liga giants Atletico Madrid will gather a participant-plus-money provide.

Felix joined Chelsea on mortgage from the Spanish facet in the course of the January transfer window. They are understood to be paying a mortgage price of round £9m until the stay of this season.

The Portugal debut became as soon as sent off in his debut nevertheless he has otherwise made a real affect. He has been one of Graham Potter’s brilliant sparks in contemporary weeks amid their ongoing miserable form.

Spanish outlet Marca are reporting that Chelsea private taken to Felix as they ‘desire to defend’ him past this advertising and marketing campaign.

Todd Boehly is to ‘manufacture a proposal’ for the Atletico Madrid giant title nevertheless it’s a ways neatly-known that the ‘operation also can now not be straightforward’. The Blues in actuality feel that they can ‘form a a success venture with Felix’ and they are pushing for a participant-plus-money deal.

The picture adds that reported Liverpool target Mason Mount is ‘one of the gamers supplied’ to Atletico Madrid ‘to manufacture the Joao operation more cost effective’.

This also can command to be difficult though given Mount’s ‘very excessive wage’ and Atletico Madrid CEO Miguel Angel Gil ‘has made it clear that his plan is to gather a considerable quantity of cash with out the inclusion of surplus Chelsea footballers’.

He additionally is in the hunt for to ‘get better as worthy as that you simply can even maintain’ of the €127m they paid to label Felix from Benfica in 2019. Their precise asking attach is now not revealed nevertheless it’s a ways indicated that this could depend on his form before the summer.

Felix himself has currently admitted that he is feeling “very comfortable” at Chelsea.

“They [Chelsea] don’t private a private justify likelihood. They would private to reach an settlement with Atletico. I’ve fully been here about a weeks, a month. I’m brilliant all the pieces. I’m very comfortable, nevertheless no person is aware of the future,” Felix explained to AS (by the inform of Sport Look).

“I became as soon as already having a success upon for a trade of surroundings a while ago, because it became as soon as difficult to ranking outdated to the procedure of taking half in. I left because my head became as soon as already full from making an attempt so hard and now not being in a neighborhood to. It had to be on this market and I judge it has been just correct for Atleti and for me too.

“Contrary to many folk, Miguel [Angel Gil Marin, Atletico Madrid CEO] has continually relied on me a lot, he has continually crooked his arm for me. I in point of fact private a first payment relationship with him.

“I treasure him letting me out because I wanted it, it wasn’t apt. Miguel has continually believed in me and I judge he continues to factor in. He sees me as a hope for Atlético, nevertheless we’ll gaze…”

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