Chelsea will step up their efforts to sign Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain next week after securing a deal for Alvaro Morata.
The
Premier League champions paid a club-record fee to bring in Morata from
Real Madrid on Friday and Arsenal midfielder Chamberlain is now in
their sights, according to Sky sources.
Arsene Wenger has said he
“100 per cent” expects Oxlade-Chamberlain to stay at the Emirates, but
the player is inside the final year of his contract.
And Sky
Sports News understands the 23-year-old – also wanted by Liverpool and
Manchester City – told Wenger this week that he has no intention of
signing the extension currently on offer.
Arsenal play Chelsea in a
Beijing friendly on Saturday before flying back to England, and the
Blues plan to open talks about a transfer within 48 hours of the
Gunners’ Sunday return.
Mesut Ozil and Alexis Sanchez are also
into the final year of their deals, but the German says his preference
is to stay while Wenger insists Sanchez is “not for sale”.
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