{"id":21094,"date":"2017-07-29T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-29T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=21094"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"chelsea-ready-for-llorente-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2017\/07\/29\/chelsea-ready-for-llorente-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Ready For Llorente Move?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Llorente&#8217;s goals in the second half of the season were one of the main reasons why we are still looking forward to a seventh season in the Premier League but he has also been a target for the Champions since the January transfer window.<\/p>\n<p>Blues boss Antonio Conte wants to work with the striker again and sees him as an ideal player as he prepares his side for a title defence following last season&#8217;s success.<\/p>\n<p>Reports on Sky Sports suggest that it will take a fee of \u00c2\u00a320m to persuade the Swans to sell with reporter Dharmesh Sheth saying &#8220;The Swansea striker Fernando Llorente is still of interest of Chelsea too,&#8221; Sheth added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m told he would cost in the region of \u00c2\u00a320million. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It should be stressed though at this point that no formal talks have taken place with Llorente and Llorente is recovering from the fractured arm that kept him out of Swansea&#8217;s pre-season tour of the United States of America.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Swans are being linked with moves for several strikers at the moment &#8211; Chris Wood from Leeds, Alvaro Negredo and Wilfried Bony amongst others although it is expected that any of them would only be pursued if Llorente was to be sold.<\/p>\n<p>I can certainly see Chelsea coming in with a bid, whether that is enough for us to sell remains to be seen but at \u00c2\u00a320m I think that would be good business.<\/p>\n<p><#cfc #lufc><copyrightAction Images><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Llorente&#8217;s goals in the second half of the season were one of the main reasons why we are still looking forward to a seventh season in the Premier League but he has also been a target for the Champions since the January transfer window. Blues boss Antonio Conte wants to work with the striker again [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":453,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/453"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}