{"id":113782,"date":"2025-09-02T18:34:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T18:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/113782\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T18:34:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T18:34:05","slug":"chelsea-transfers-how-liam-delaps-injury-caused-a-ripple-effect-across-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/113782\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea transfers: How Liam Delap’s injury caused a ripple effect across Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was supposed to be a calm end to the transfer window in terms of incomings for Chelsea with a plan to sell, sell, sell. <\/p>\n

But when Delap pulled up at 12.44pm on Saturday it sent Chelsea into panic mode, as in the hours before the match AC Milan had completed a move for France forward Christopher Nkunku and Chelsea had allowed Jackson to travel for a medical at Bayern Munich.<\/p>\n

As the seriousness of Delap’s injury became known, <\/a>Chelsea reneged on the deal with Bayern which prompted an angry reaction from Jackson and his representatives.<\/p>\n

Chelsea explored their options with a move for Harder their plan A, recalling Guiu plan B and sticking with Jackson as a last resort.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, a returning Guiu proved viable and avoided using the final and most difficult option which would have been to force Jackson to return against his wishes. <\/p>\n

Sources close to the deal explained that Chelsea ultimately ended up getting improved terms for Jackson, with Bayern now paying a \u00a314.3m loan fee with an obligation to buy based on appearances made for \u00a356m. <\/p>\n

A total package in excess of \u00a370m would be some return for a player that cost \u00a332m from Villarreal in 2023. <\/p>\n

Remarkably, before all this happened, Chelsea failed with \u00a334.7m bid to sign Barcelona attacker Fermin Lopez but with an openness to negotiate.<\/p>\n

It left Chelsea extremely busy on deadline day while trying to complete around 10 deals in a short period of time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was supposed to be a calm end to the transfer window in terms of incomings for Chelsea…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-113782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}