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Chelsea is frustrated by Thibaut Courtois' claim that director Marina Granovskaia has come back on a promise to sanction her sale to Real Madrid last summer, sources told ESPN FC.
Courtois refused to go to preparatory training to try to set up shop in Madrid. Chelsea signed a £ 35 million sales contract after activating the € 80 million buy-out clause in Kepa Arrizabalaga's deal with Athletic Bilbao. which would come in replacement.
In an interview with the Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws published this weekend, Courtois said that he had informed Granovskaia of his desire to leave Chelsea in March of last season and badured him that he was "out there". he would be allowed to go there at the end of the campaign.
"In March, I met Marina [Granovskaia] in which I told him that I would like to leave – to live in London and because of the busy schedule, it was impossible to see my children who lived in Madrid, "said Courtois. Will you find something? she replied.
"I told her:" Do not worry. "" It's fine, "she said," we'll let you go and find a replacement. "But suddenly after the World Cup, a start was not so obvious … All the possible targets seemed too expensive, and that was not what we agreed on. "
But sources at Chelsea told ESPN FC that no such guarantee had been given, adding that the Courtois agent had informed them in June that no club had agreed to make an official offer signature of Courtois during the summer period.
Chelsea's preference when no real interest arose was to let Courtois stay and sign a new contract or, failing that, to see the last year of his existing contract.
Madrid responded with an offer of 35 million pounds. Head coach Maurizio Sarri recommended allowing Courtois to leave, fearing to keep him would have a negative impact on the locker room, causing Chelsea to make Kepa the most expensive goalkeeper in the world.
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