Chelsea have made Atletico Madrid goalkeeper Jan Oblak a priority target for the summer market, AS reports.

Following up on a story from the Mirror linking Oblak with Chelsea, AS has information from its own sources.

They report that Chelsea will ‘launch an offensive’ for 27-year-old Oblak, one of the world’s best goalkeepers.

Chelsea are willing to pay around €100m for the Slovenian, which would make him the most expensive goalkeeper in history.

That record is held by Chelsea’s own Kepa Arrizabalaga, who could play an important role in the transfer.

In an attempt to make the transfer cheaper, Chelsea would be willing to include Kepa, 25, in the deal for Oblak.

Kepa has failed to live up to his €80m fee at Stamford Bridge but has proven himself in La Liga with Athletic Bilbao.

Atletico Madrid have no interest in selling Oblak, believing they must keep their best players to compete on all fronts.

Oblak renewed his Atleti contract in April 2019 and his release clause went from €100m to €120m.

However, with Chelsea prepared to pay record-breaking money for Oblak, Atletico’s resolve may be tested.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/transfernexus.com/2020/07/14/as-chelsea-willing-to-pay-e100m-for-atleticos-jan-oblak/%3famp

They should also be ready to spend good money fixing their defense to complement Oblak. That is IF they get Oblak.

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Good move. Kepa is a bad keeper...

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They should also be ready to spend good money fixing their defense to complement Oblak. That is IF they get Oblak.

You are right but kepa should have saved chelsea some points this season if nit for his terrible goal keeping...

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So are they now saying Kepa who cost us £72mil is no longer good for our darling Chelsea team

Chelsea too like athletico keepers I swear

nice one

Let them replace that basket abeg...but before one blames the goalkeeper, how did the opponents get past the strikers, midfielders and defenders? Behind a good goalkeeper is always an empty net.

The glory of that mumu oblak is just so visible because of the kind of defensive football athletico Madrid are known for.....


Those people are damn too too difficult to score a goal against... Their defensive tactics strong pass wall of jericho

The rebuilding continues.

oblak is going no where..

100million euro for a 27year old �

Good deal if true

Hahahaha, sheffield united hit them hard below the belt, na keeper cause am ?

Chelsea really have a lot of money to throw around this transfer window,

I'm scared of what they can do. They are the only club competing with themselves this transfer window

Kepa is just an expensive sh!t. 53.3% efficiency in a league season... the worst for any Chelsea and top 4 keeper, EVER.

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Overpriced!!!... That money would be better used to get 2 solid defenders!!!

The worst keeper will look even manageable behind a world class defence, while Oblak would look worse than Pickford behind this current Chelsea defense.

If Norwich had turned up a little yesterday, they would have easily drawn that game. Smh.

A goalkeeper is as good as his defense but this shouldn't be a reason for Kepa to let in goals like a basket, he is not playing his part in the defense formation. Oblak is a good goalie(people may say because he is at Atletico) but you will need to understand that Atletico cleared their whole backline leaving only Gimenez at the start of the season yet Oblak still does his job.

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100m for a 27 years goalkeeper is insane

JosephXavier:
Chelsea really have a lot of money to throw around this transfer window,

I'm scared of what they can do. They are the only club competing with themselves this transfer window

There is absolutely no wisdom in paying 100 million for a keeper at 27... He probably has not more than 2 good seasons left in him.

I hope this is a good deal for Chelsea, I still believe the defence is also a culprit. A keeper is as good as his defenders (throwback to Victor Valdes - even tho we all knew he was wack, his secrets hardly leaked cos he had Puyol and other 'good' defenders)

Anyways, The blood is BLUE. Vamos Chelsea, KTBFFH.

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Lol. I pity Chelsea

Too expensive if you ask me.Not worth it for a 27 year old goalkeeper

I don't think goal keeper is what Chelsea really needs rn.
The defense is a complete mess, Lampard should have started from there.
This is a waste of money

Kepa the keeper has not lived up to expectations

Swallowing 42 goals in one season with 2 more games to go

The whole Chelsea defense is so horrible too. Worst defense in the Roman era

They are still in the third position

While United remains United in the 5th stand :/