Thibaut Courtois has been told he will NOT be given a Real Madrid move this summer.
The Belgian No.1 will instead be forced to see out the final year of his contract at Stamford Bridge.
The Spaniards are keen on Courtois, but the Blues were only willing to cash in on the player should they nail down a replacement before next Thursday's transfer deadline.
Chelsea will now lose Courtois for nothing next summer should they fail to convince him to sign a new deal.
The Star claim that Real's offer is 'peanuts,' meaning an extra year with the world class goalkeeper is more attractive than the prospect of playing out the season with a significantly worse goalkeeper.
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ColAmAn
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Chelsea is always doing bad business. Why keep an unhappy player now and lose him for nothing next season when you can get 30+ mil Euros for him now, and perhaps convince Madrid to sell K Navas? Same way they sold Lukaku, KDB and Salah when they could have had some more patience with them. They bought David Luis, sold him and bought him again. They bought players who have been on loan for their entire Chelsea careers. Who at all makes transfer decisions at Chelsea?!
follower
93
this is good news, navas is way better than courtouis because having someone who is loyal and a champion is better than having someone who is used to kick their manager out of the club in their second season. who is waiting for real Madrid to win their fourth champions league consecutively and prove to the world that no player is bigger than the club even if their best player leaves? πππππ₯π₯π₯π₯π₯
De_Dean
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I have always believed, having a motivated average player is better than having an unhappy star player in the team.... If Courtois really wants to go to Real Madrid, Chelsea should let him go, and sign Schmeichel or Burtland.... Otherwise we might be playing with a CONCUSSED goalkeeper for the whole season (IYKWIM)
kbasseyub
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We've won three great titles with him. Who says he's not good? I think letting him stay another season to see out his contract is not really a bad idea as we've not been able to get his like for like replacement. This same Courtois will still use his and confess his love to Chelsea if we have a very good 2018/19 campaign.