Inter chief Giuseppe Marotta dismissed Chelsea’s chances of signing Andre Onana, amid reports the Premier League club are readying a £40million offer.
The Cameroon international has rebuilt his reputation in Serie A following the nine-month ban he received for taking a banned substance when he was an Ajax player.
Onana had been an Arsenal target but that suspension saw his hopes of a move to north London quashed, but a transfer to the Premier League is back on the cards.
Kepa Arrizabalaga regained his place as the club’s No.1 earlier this season from Edouard Mendy, but the Blues are likely to be open to offers for both their senior goalkeepers this summer.
Mauricio Pochettino, meanwhile, set to be appointed as Graham Potter’s successor, is sad to harbour reservations about Onana but, in any case, Marotta insists the Blues have no chance unless they raise their valuation.
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He said: ‘Goodbye for €40M? I’m ruling it out: we don’t want to put him on the market and the boy is happy to wear our shirt.’
Chelsea, meanwhile, are set to miss out on European qualification altogether next season but interim boss Frank Lampard insists they remain an attractive proposition for potential new signings.
He said: ‘Absolutely I would sign for Chelsea. There are a lot of great things about this club. ‘Form is temporary, quality is permanent’ is a good saying.
‘I can see fantastic intentions to take the club forward. A lot of big clubs go through this process in some way, shape or form, and the more successful you’ve been, the more headlines it gets when you come to that moment.
‘As an individual player definitely I would come here because it’s an incredible club. Sometimes it’s nice to be part of the process that takes a club where you want it to go.
‘I think that’s an enticing thing as well. Rather than being parachuted in to somewhere that’s successful.’
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