Real Madrid have concurred a deal to sign Chelsea defender Antonio Rudiger when his agreement finishes at the end of the season.<\/p>\n

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Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel\u00a0stated\u00a0Rudiger had flunked to agree a new agreement with the European champions.<\/p>\n

Rudiger, who was also in contact with Bayern Munich, was offered a deal worth more than \u00a3200,000 to stay at Chelsea.<\/p>\n

He is anticipated to sign a four-year contract at the Bernabeu with a medical test to take place in London.<\/p>\n

\u201cReal Madrid had originally rejected the chance to sign Rudiger but the financial demands were reduced by the player.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rudiger, who shook hands with the Blues for an initial \u00a329m from Roma in 2017, has features in almost 200 matches, scoring 12 times.<\/p>\n

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He has triumphed the Champions League, Europa League, Club World Cup and the FA Cup at Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe gave everything and now we enter a situation where we can’t fight any more because of the sanctions and now Toni will leave,\u201d Tuchel stated, mentioning to the\u00a0restrictions placed on the club\u00a0whilest a new owner is sought.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur hands are tied. I don’t know what would have been the outcome [without the sanctions]. That’s his decision. It’s not a nice one for us but we don’t take it personally.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Chelsea are also all set to lose Danish centre-back Andreas Christensen\u00a0this summer to Barcelona on a free transfer,\u00a0however captain Cesar Azpilicueta is believed to stay following a one-year extension was triggered in his agreement before this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Real Madrid have concurred a deal to sign Chelsea defender Antonio Rudiger when his agreement finishes at the end of the season. Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel\u00a0stated\u00a0Rudiger had flunked to agree a new agreement with the European champions. Rudiger, who was also in contact with Bayern Munich, was offered a deal worth more than \u00a3200,000 to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportzoclock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5612"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportzoclock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportzoclock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportzoclock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportzoclock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportzoclock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5617,"href":"https:\/\/sportzoclock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5612\/revisions\/5617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportzoclock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportzoclock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportzoclock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportzoclock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}