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Angers president Said Chabane on Azzedine Ounahi: “We’ve many bids, we’ve been approached by big clubs in Italy, Spain, England, France. Our wish is to complete an agreement now but keep the player until the end of the season.”
Mikel Arteta: “Nketiah is always ready, he knows he has a big opportunity.”
On Reiss Nelson’s injury & plans to bring in a forward in January: “Let’s see what happens. We know what we have to do, and that hasn’t changed the plans.”
Callum Hudson-Odoi will not return to Chelsea already in January. “We assumed that Callum would stay, but now we also have the certainty that he will stay until the end of the season. We’re very happy, he’s key player.”
The Christopher Nkunku deal has been in place for a long time, and now I can say everything is complete. A few weeks ago I said ‘here we go soon’, and now it’s 100% sealed and done. He’s had his medical and signed all the documents. Chelsea and Leipzig have agreed and signed everything on the clubs’ side, and he will be a Chelsea player in 2023. Chelsea will pay more than the €60m release clause because they wanted to be fast and move to the front of the queue for this signing. They knew many clubs were prepared to jump into the race for Nkunku and that release clause was a big opportunity on the market. Chelsea never had any doubts about the player, and now we just wait for the official statements, though I can’t currently tell you when they’re going to announce it. Still, to repeat, it’s more than ‘here we go’, everything is now complete.
Denis Zakaria: “I’m still positive on my Chelsea experience, then I’ll see what will happen. I still need to improve some things and show the coach what I can. When I get to play, I have to show that I am good. It hasn’t been enough so far, but I work hard.”
Chelsea could be ready to make a bid for Josko Gvardiol this January in an effort to beat Real Madrid to the RB Leipzig centre-back (Mirror)
Luka Modric on his next steps for the future: “Retirement? I want to play the Nations League with Croatia again, and then we’ll see.”
Everton are now looking into striker options on the market after terminating Salomon Rondon’s contract. Talks will take place in the next days and weeks, they were among four clubs interested in Cunha.
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