Chelsea prepares the 100 million Oblak clause

Barring an unexpected turn, Chelsea will pay the Jan Oblak clause. It will, surely, in the next 24 hours. The English team wanted a substitute for Thibaut Courtois, who has forced to return to Madrid, and chose the Slovenian Atlético de Madrid goal as the right one. After testing several alternatives, such as Alisson or Reina, the president of the London club, Roman Abramovich, has opted to pay the 100 million euros that marks the player's clause. This is what he plans to do in the next few hours, with the limit on Thursday, when the Premier League market closes.

Chelsea saw their more affordable options vanish this preseason. Alisson chose Liverpool and Pepe Reina, who had the approval of the new 'blue' coach Maurizio Sarri, did not want to break his commitment to Milan after the 'rossonera' bet for him. Thus, Jordan Pickford, after his outstanding role in the World Cup, became the priority goal in Stamford Bridge to cover the goal. But Everton went down asking 65 million euros for the English goal and, finally, Abramovich has decided to bet to spend a little more and take Oblak, one of the best goalkeepers in the world. That, if there is not another Griezmann.

Hardly there will be economic counteroffer. Atlético de Madrid has made a great effort to retain Griezmann and sign Lemar. The attempts of the Athletic one to improve the contract of Oblak, that expires in 2021, and to increase to him the clause they have not fructified with which in the breast of the rojiblanco club they feared that something thus could happen. We warned last Friday in MD: Oblak is in danger for Chelsea. That is why they signed Adán, although now they will have to move the chip to have two goalkeepers after the transfer of Werner to Huesca and André Moreira to West Ham.

Oblak, who has returned to training on Monday, played just 45 minutes this preseason, in the first match of the Cholo Simeone, against Arsenal. The Slovenian goal missed matches against Stuttgart and PSG due to a "traumatism" in the shoulder. They could be his last services to Atlético de Madrid and in the air there will be the future of Thibaut Courtois, who has done it for Real Madrid but ...