Chelsea’s pursuit of Basle winger Mohamed Salah will end up costing the club £20million — a sizeable chunk of the money they will receive from Juan Mata’s sale to Manchester United.
Liverpool increased their offer for Salah to £18.5m late last week when they became aware of Chelsea’s interest, with £13.5m due to be paid as an straight down-payment and £5m in bonuses.
But Chelsea, flush with £37m from agreeing to sell Mata to United, were able to gazump the Merseysiders again, in similar circumstances to snatching Willian from Tottenham in the last transfer window.
Liverpool increased their offer for Salah to £18.5m late last week when they became aware of Chelsea’s interest, with £13.5m due to be paid as an straight down-payment and £5m in bonuses.
But Chelsea, flush with £37m from agreeing to sell Mata to United, were able to gazump the Merseysiders again, in similar circumstances to snatching Willian from Tottenham in the last transfer window.
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