Chelsea facing tough fight for defender Baba Rahman as Real Madrid, PSG negotiate deal

Published on: 01 August 2015
Chelsea facing tough fight for defender Baba Rahman as Real Madrid, PSG negotiate deal
Baba Rahman

English side Chelsea are in a big fight to sign Ghana defender Baba Rahman as Spanish giants Real Madrid and big-spending French club PSG are also the race to sign the player from German side Augsburg.

Chelsea looked poised to sign Baba Rahman from Augsburg after submitting a €25m (£17.5m) bid for the 21-year-old Ghana defender.

However the deal has not been accepted by Augsburg as it has emerged that Real Madrid and PSG are also keen on the player which has resulted in his German club not accepting the offer yet.

This means that Augsburg are weighing all the offers on the table to ensure they get the maximum price for the defender before deciding to allow him to leave.

However, Baba's agent Sacha Emphacher looks keen on his player moving to England where it has been confirmed that Chelsea have tabled an offer worth â‚¬25m (£17.5m).

After Filipe Luís was sold back to Atlético Madrid after just one season at Stamford Bridge, José Mourinho has stepped up his search for a replacement left-back this week.

Augsburg rejected an initial offer of around €20m (£14m) for the player they signed from Greuther Fürth only last summer for £1m but are now expected to agree to the transfer, which also contains significant bonuses.

Chelsea were first alerted to the Rahman’s promise by their former manager, Avram Grant, who coaches Ghana.

The 21-year-old was part of the squad who reached the final of the Africa Cup of Nations earlier this year, losing on penalties to Ivory Coast.

The Israeli retains close connections to the Stamford Bridge hierarchy and rates Rahman as one of his best players.

Arsenal and Manchester City were among the other English clubs to have expressed an interest in signing him earlier this summer, while Atlético and Roma had also asked to be kept informed.

Having begun his career in Ghana at Accra-based Dreams FC, Rahman has enjoyed a meteoric rise and was nominated as the best left-back in his first season in the Bundesliga, losing out to Bayern Munich’s Juan Bernat.

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