Chelsea plan to begin contract negotiations with Antonio Rudiger to kill off any potential interest from Tottenham Hotspur, according to the Daily Mail.
The centre-back will enter the final two years of his contract this summer and the Daily Mail understands Chelsea want to keep him despite an injury-hit season which has limited him to only 45 minutes of first-team action.
Rudiger started 33 of Chelsea’s Premier League games last campaign and may be the ideal long-term partner for England prospect Fikayo Tomori.
Spurs have their own contract concerns in defence with Toby Alderweireld and Jan Vertonghen free agents at the end of this season, so the Blues are reportedly wary of possibly opening the door for us, as well as Manchester City, whose lack of depth has been exposed by Aymeric Laporte’s injury.
The Daily Mail adds that Chelsea believe tying Rudiger to an extended deal would force any potential suitors to look elsewhere for defensive solutions.
Opinion: I highly doubt the German international would have been considered a realistic target by Spurs, but at least we are giving Chelsea something to worry about, because our performances on the pitch certainly aren’t.
No. ENIC FC not interested . Next !!!!!!!!!!!!
Transfer nonsense rumour mill cranking up and window still a month and a half off. Seen us linked with Pellegrini and I nearly fell off my chair. Turns out it’s not Spammers manager, some Italian, now Dries Mertens is on his way, and Rudiger as well. Distraction tactics, feed the mob with buns to keep them happy.
I’m expecting good money to be spent in the next two windows but without CL it will be tough
They’re finding out you can’t win the BIG on on the cheap. You can sneak a little premier League that way though they think (Leicester)
They do wanna win trophies coz there’s money in it. They just wanna do it on the cheap
Arrrrrrrry we need ya😁 rednapp would have them balling you know
Harry Kane?
If poch and his crew left the club tomorrow who have we got there who could prepare a team? And don’t say Wayne Burnett
Complete nonsense, Enic spin, like most of our transfer rumours. Chelsea will never sell to us. The same with the Depay rumour. Enic think by leaking these absurd transfer rumours, that it will placate the fans. The reality is Spurs fans are slowly waking up to the fact that Spurs are no longer a football club but a cash machine for Enic who have no interest in winning trophies or respecting the club’s fan base, only to rip them off.
The countrys not mine only the capital is😁 Nope. No russian mafia allowed
Is he been allowed back in your country yet?😀
Abamaovic don’t care about all that anymore. Good price sell him to them
Because Cheatski wouldn’t sell to us, ever.
Why wouldn’t be come to us if he didn’t want to be at a rubbish club anymore?😁
Like the reply 1882.
Cheatski wouldn’t sell to us, ever.
I like the opinion bit at the end. No value in simply covering an article written somewhere else. I agree, I doubt we looking at him and I doubt he would come to us.