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The Blues striker is closing in on a move to his hometown as he looks to escape his Stamford Bridge nightmare
Chelsea have reached an agreement with Atletico Madrid to allow Alvaro Morata to leave on loan, with the Liga club having a £ 48.5 million ($ 62m) option to sign the striker on a permanent basis, Goal Understands.
Morada had already reached an agreement with Atletico Madrid, and is willing to accept a higher contract than £ 120,000 per week.
Offloading the 26-year-old striker is also a major step in Chelsea's bid to take over Milan's loan deal for Gonzalo Higuain, with the Blues having already reached an agreement with the Argentina forward's parent club Juventus.
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Like Morata, Higuain has been left behind his team's latest match, with Milan due to play Genoa on Monday, after Chelsea agreed a six-month deal with an outright option for the striker outright for £ 32.5 million ($ 42m ).
They will also pay Juventus on the basis of appearances, goals and season's achievements over the six-month period that they are loaning Higuain for.
Genoa's Krzysztof Piatek is set to replace Higuain at the San Siro and has a £ 35m ($ 45m) deal to be reached in the next 48 hours, according to the selling club's sporting director Giorgio Perinetti.
"After today's match against Milan, we will meet them and reach agreement in the next 48 hours, whether he leaves or not," said Perinetti. "We spoke with Gazidis and Leonardo for two hours and we still need to evaluate the counterparts in the deal.
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"This is why we need to be able to badyze our market."
The movement of strikers across Europe is one of a bigger picture as major clubs look to ensure they are not left without a reliable forward option for the rest of the season.
This is what has been done to Michie Batshuayi as it is being considered, as it is to be explored with a £ 40m ($ 51m) valuation being placed on the Belgium international, who endured a disappointing first half of the season on loan at Valencia.
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