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Chelsea Transfer News: The Blues have made an offer for Mattia Caldara
The Blues have been strongly linked with Caldara's teammate Daniele Rugani in recent weeks, but have been frustrated in
Rugani's agent, Davide Torchia, confirmed the interest but revealed that Juve is reluctant to abandon the central defender while Chelsea was put off by his price of 49 million sterling
New Blues manager Maurizio Sarri still tries to bring defensive reinforcements to Stamford Bridge but found a lack of signatures up to now
According to the Italian publication Corriere della Sport Chelsea director Marina Granovskaia met Fabio Paratici from Juve in Nice. after the pre-season match of the London club against Inter yesterday
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After the meeting, a bid of £ 40m was submitted for Caldara, which is valued at around £ 45m by Juve.
If that was the case, any Juve trades with AC Milan on Caldara could end
The Rossoneri would like the 24-year-old in exchange for Leonardo Bonucci, who wants to return to Turin one season after having joined his rivals.
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The German club Borussia Dortmund and the French side Marseille are also supposed to have an interest to sign the defender.
With just two weeks to go until the start of the Premier League season, Sarri has only brought midfielder Jorginho from the former Napoli club and goalkeeper Rob Green.
The new manager has Gary Cahill, Andreas Christensen, Cesar Azpilicueta and David Luiz at his disposal positions at the center-back, but wan
Caldara has played 34 appearances on loan at the former club Atalanta last season , with most of his exits at the center-back.
Since his arrival at Juve in 2017, he has not yet played league match and we do not know if the manager Max Allegri sees the defender as a starter.
While the Premier League transfer window will continue until August 9, Serie A clubs will have another nine days to complete their business. articles
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