“Positive developments secure verbal agreement in major Chelsea transfer deal”.
Chelsea appear to soon confirm their first transfer of the January window, at least their first big deal involving a first-team player.
January is now 7 days old and it seems that Chelsea have focused on some loans and other departures.
Sky Germany has the latest on a big deal: Ian Maatsen to Borussia Dortmund.
Your journalist Florian Plettenberg published the latest information on the deal last night, and it appears that it is now very close to being fully confirmed.
As you can see from his post on X last night, Maatsen to Dortmund has made some positive developments and there is now a verbal agreement for a 6 month loan deal.
It's unclear whether there will be an option or an obligation to buy in the deal, but that's what we heard Chelsea wanted, so one imagines there will be something there.
Either way, this one seems very close now.
