Kai Havertz will be a Chelsea player after Bayer’s Europa League exit

Leverkusen's Kai Havertz (Photo by MARTIN MEISSNER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
Leverkusen's Kai Havertz (Photo by MARTIN MEISSNER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) /
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Date set, now just for the time and place to be confirmed. Is that how close Bayer Leverkusen is to announce the departure of Kai Havertz to Chelsea?

Multiple reports claim the transfer saga of Havertz to Chelsea should be over soon now that his current team’s concluded their business on the pitch in their Europa League challenge. They lost 2-1 to Inter Milan in the quarter-finals on Monday evening.

"Chelsea could get major Kai Havertz transfer breakthrough today. Bayer Leverkusen have made clear they won’t entertain selling Kai Havertz until the end of their Europa League campaign.Chelsea’s hopes of signing Kai Havertz could be boosted this evening if Bayer Leverkusen are knocked out of the Europa League. (Via: express.co.uk)"

With them being knocked out of the tournament, the Blues can now engage in transfer talks with the club. As per the reports from now and back then when the German Bundesliga was resolved, it was almost unavoidable that the hot prospect from Leverkusen would leave in this time frame but his owners were more concerned with their run in Europa’s second tier.

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Thanks to the young attacking midfielder fecund goalscoring record, the Germans will recover the right amount of funds they require from their star player. This, despite the financial limits caused by the pandemic.

The difficulty for Frank Lampard and the Blues committee is that every other opponent knows they have lots of money to move around in the market. The gift of having more funds than the next? They can outbid any of their competitors.

The curse? All teams on the receiving end will hustle them for the right price and hold onto their players for the highest ransom possible. This is the case with Bayer and how they treating the transfer of Kai Havertz. However, things will now move along swiftly.

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Following their cup exit business will take the front seat. Chelsea endured a horrid ending to the maiden season of the Lampard era after a 7-1 aggregate loss. This transfer needs to take place to help lift the mood at Stamford Bridge as they confirmed a trophyless campaign.