{"id":419275,"date":"2026-01-19T12:55:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T12:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/419275\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T12:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T12:55:13","slug":"chelsea-hold-transfer-talks-with-rennes-for-jeremy-jacquet-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/419275\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea hold transfer talks with Rennes for J\u00e9r\u00e9my Jacquet – sources"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chelsea<\/a> have held talks with Rennes<\/a> over a move for defender J\u00e9r\u00e9my Jacquet<\/a>, sources have told ESPN.<\/p>\n

The Blues were originally planning on a quiet month before strengthening their squad in the summer but sources say they have chosen to accelerate their plans after rival clubs began stepping up their interest in the 20-year-old.<\/p>\n

Jacquet, a France under-21 international, is open to a move to the Premier League<\/a> but Rennes are demanding more than \u20ac60 million (\u00a369.72m) and are in a strong position to negotiate with the 20-year-old’s existing contract set to expire in 2029.<\/p>\n

However, personal terms are not expected to be an issue and Chelsea are aiming to progress talks with Rennes in the coming days.<\/p>\n

Jacquet is a Rennes academy graduate and made his debut in January 2024. He has made 16 appearances this season and was sent off in a 5-0 defeat at Paris Saint-Germain<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n

Chelsea are interested in a move for Rennes and France under-21 centre-back J\u00e9r\u00e9my Jacquet.\u00a0Jean Catuffe\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

The move to sign a centre-back comes after former head coach Enzo Maresca was told last summer that the club would not add a central defender last summer following a serious injury to Levi Colwill<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Chelsea had been interested in signing Dean Huijsen<\/a> at the time but the Spaniard opted to join Real Madrid<\/a>. The club then chose to wait for top targets to become available rather than enter the market at Maresca’s request.<\/p>\n

Sources suggest that should a deal for Jacquet fall through, they could return to Bournemouth for Marcos Senesi<\/a>, whose contract runs out at the end of the season, but there has been no contact between the clubs yet.<\/p>\n

The Blues also hold an interest in Como<\/a> defender Jacabo Ram\u00f3n, who is also being tracked by Real.<\/p>\n

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Chelsea’s ability to act in the market is complicated by a need to comply with a sanctions relating to a breach of UEFA’s financial rules.<\/p>\n

They must record a positive balance in player trading relating to their Champions League squad, although club sources insist they have the flexibility to add a player should the need arise.<\/p>\n

Colwill is progressing well from knee surgery and is expected to return before the end of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chelsea have held talks with Rennes over a move for defender J\u00e9r\u00e9my Jacquet, sources have told ESPN. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-419275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}