According to reports, Manchester City has turned down yet another approach from Chelsea for one of their stars.
This time, the man in question is Aymeric Laporte, and he is the third player Thomas Tuchel has attempted to entice away from Pep Guardiola, following the seemingly more successful attempts to sign Raheem Sterling and Nathan Ake.
Sterling is set to join up with Tuchel in the Blues’ pre-season tour of America next week after a £47.5million deal was agreed late on Saturday evening.
The agreement represents quite the coup for Chelsea, who took advantage of the England’s winger contract running out next summer to force the deal through.
Chelsea are also in talks to sign Dutch centre-back Nathan Ake and have agreed personal terms but they were not done there.
According to Standard Sport, the Blues made an approach for another City centre-back earlier this week in Laporte but City rejected the prospect out of hand.
Tuchel requires at least two centre-backs after the Blues lost Antonio Rudiger and Andreas Christensen on free transfers earlier this month.
Jules Kounde, Matthijs de Ligt, Kalidou Koulibaly, and Marquinhos have all previously been linked.
However, Chelsea’s interest in Laporte demonstrates their desire to destabilize their title rivals by attempting to steal their best players.
