Chelsea may or may not be truly interested in Fermín López; in fact, we may be only interested if we can find a “deal”. Reminds me of a friend of mine who can only ever buy things “on sale”. Necessary item or not, he has to feel that he’s “getting a deal”.
With Barcelona’s asking price said to be in the region of €60-90m (it’s a big region), we have reportedly sent them an offer worth €40m. So that probably isn’t going to get it done, especially with López himself not exactly pushing for an exit. After all, he signed a new long-term contract just last year and would go on to feature 46 times for the Blaugrana last season.
But I suppose it doesn’t hurt to ask. And our ability to pay up may be limited by financial fair play concerns — especially with Nicolas Jackson now suddenly not turning into a net-positive line item in the spreadsheets.
I don’t imagine Barca will give us the time of day for this bid, let alone for a Spain international winger, so unless we seriously up the offer or the 22-year-old starts agitating for a move, this isn’t going to go anywhere anytime soon.