Chelsea’s €70m bid rejected – and Blues will now have to pay more than €100m for rising star | OneFootball

With 4 games played, we’ve already reached that point in the season where premature judgments are being made on Chelsea’s summer signings.

Because the attacking showing we’ve seen haven’t really been up to scratch, the players brought in are being harshly judged, those we didn’t buy are being seen as the ones that got away – case in point, Fermin Lopez banging in two for Barcelona last night.

€70m offer wasn’t enough to tempt Juventus to sell key man

Kenan Yildiz playing for Juventus. (Photo by Valerio Pennicino/Getty Images)

Fermin wasn’t the only Chelsea target looking good over the weekend. Kenan Yildiz continued his great progress at Juventus with a superb goal in their thrilling win over title rivals Inter in Serie A. That prompted a little retrospective from TuttoSport about how easily the Turkish wonderkid could have ended up elsewhere this summer.

Chelsea apparently tabled a €70m bid for the attacking midfield, but Juventus rejected it on the grounds that the 20 year old is “practically unsellable.”

The Blues, unable to sign Yildiz or Xavi Simons, despite long standing interest, ended the window by bringing in the less exciting pair of Facundo Buonanotte and Alejandro Garnacho to add some depth in attacking areas. They joined Jamie Gittens, who had come into the squad earlier in the summer.

Chelsea may have missed the boat on rising star

If Yildiz keeps performing like this, you can be sure that Chelsea will keep him on their list.

But given his valuation is always rising, and could go beyond €100m very quickly if he keeps playing well, Chelsea may have missed their chance. They have made the occasional exception for a €100m player, but it’s not common, and we get the feeling Yildiz is going to end up as one of the very painful “ones that got away.”