{"id":131992,"date":"2025-09-04T10:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T10:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/131992\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T10:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T10:32:07","slug":"chelsea-make-final-fermin-lopez-decision-after-missing-out-on-barcelona-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/131992\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea make final Fermin Lopez decision after missing out on Barcelona star"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Barcelona star Fermin Lopez became a priority target for Chelsea at the very end of the last transfer window.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechelseachronicle.com\/tag\/enzo-maresca\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Enzo Maresca<\/a>, though, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechelseachronicle.com\/club\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chelsea<\/a> never managed to agree a fee with Barcelona for their attacking midfielder.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, it has been claimed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechelseachronicle.com\/transfer-news\/chelsea-made-35m-offer-for-extraordinary-talent-his-club-didnt-even-bother-responding\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Barcelona did not even respond<\/a> to the offer that they received from their English counterparts.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea were still able to bring in a new No.10 on deadline day, however, signing Facundo Buonanotte on loan from Brighton &amp; Hove Albion.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2207857445-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Italian Sports journalist Fabrizio Romano looks on from the tribune prior to the Serie A match between FC Internazionale and Udinese Calcio\" class=\"wp-image-294051\" \/>Photo by Jonathan Moscrop\/Getty ImagesChelsea decide to keep Fermin Lopez on transfer shortlist<\/p>\n<p>Lopez to Chelsea could still be one to watch in the future, with transfer expert <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechelseachronicle.com\/tag\/fabrizio-romano\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fabrizio Romano<\/a> not ruling out the Blues making another move for him.<\/p>\n<p>According to Romano, Chelsea have decided to keep Lopez\u2019s name on their shortlist.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on his YouTube channel, he said: \u201cWhat I can add to you today is that Fermin Lopez will stay on the list of Chelsea for the future. He\u2019s a player who was already on the list one year ago, remained on the list this summer and will be on the list in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Romano also revealed that Barcelona value Lopez at around \u20ac80m (\u00a369.4m), which is double what Chelsea were offering for the 22-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>It would be a lot of money to spend on a player who is not guaranteed to start in his favoured position.<\/p>\n<p>It had been reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechelseachronicle.com\/transfer-news\/chelsea-make-fermin-lopez-one-massive-guarantee-in-bid-to-sign-barcelona-star\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chelsea were ready to hand Lopez a big role<\/a>, but with Cole Palmer being the first-choice attacking midfielder in Maresca\u2019s squad, the Spaniard was not going to be a starter in the No.10 position.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2232919634-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Fermin Lopez during Barcelona warm-up\" \/>Photo by Jose Breton\/Pics Action\/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesFermin Lopez\u2019s conversation with Lamine Yamal about Chelsea<\/p>\n<p>Understandably, Chelsea\u2019s interest in Lopez was the talk of the Barcelona dressing room.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechelseachronicle.com\/news\/lamine-yamal-reveals-what-fermin-lopez-told-him-after-asking-about-chelsea-interest\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lopez was asked by Lamine Yamal<\/a> and others what was going on, with the Barcelona superstar sharing that conversation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s fine and happy as always,\u201d Yamal said. \u201cAt Barca, if someone leaves, it\u2019s their decision. We\u2019re a young, united group where there are no problems between us, and we enjoy the club we\u2019re at.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think anyone wants to leave. We jokingly asked him what was going on with England, but he told us he wanted to stay, that he was happy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lopez made 46 appearances in all competitions for Barcelona last season, so Hansi Flick will be glad that the Spain international did not push for a move.<\/p>\n<p>Only 12 of those appearances were starts in La Liga, though. If that number does not go up this term, things could quickly change. Lopez\u2019s situation is certainly something to monitor going into the new year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barcelona star Fermin Lopez became a priority target for Chelsea at the very end of the last transfer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[41873,403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-131992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-fabrizio-romano","9":"tag-soccer","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}