Anwar Ibrahim (Cairo)
Day after day, German star Antonio Rudiger, the heart of Chelsea’s defense, enters the attention of more than one major European club, after the competition was limited to Real Madrid and Bayern Munich, to obtain his services in the “winter Mercato”, or at the latest, in June 2022. The clubs of Tottenham, Manchester City, Paris Saint-Germain and Juventus joined the list, due to the strong and tall German defender, who has great physical and technical capabilities, which clearly appear in his performance, whether with his English club or the German “Manchester” team.
Rudiger played an influential role in Chelsea’s victory in the Champions League last season, and he continues his brilliance with the team this season, and is competing strongly for the top of the English Premier League, with Manchester City and Liverpool, but on the contractual level with the “Blues” management, He faces big problems, due to his insistence on increasing his salary, and even doubling it, in order to agree to renew his contract, and he is still rejected by the team management, which made the negotiations between his brother and his agent, and between officials in the London club, to stop more than once, and even reach a dead end, He hastens his departure from the “Blues”.
In light of this strict position on both sides, where the player wants to increase his salary from 100,000 to 200,000 pounds per week, or in accurate sense raising it from about 5 million pounds annually to ten million, the Chelsea administration rejects this request.
Despite that, German coach Thomas Tuchel is confident that Rudiger will stay with the team and will not go anywhere else, because he loves the club he has been playing for for nearly 5 years, specifically from 2017, and he used to play in the “Premier League”, and for this reason Tuchel hopes to That the club officials be convinced to renew him, while trying to reach a compromise “formula” regarding his salary, and indeed the “Blues” offered 150,000 pounds per week, but the player and his agent rejected this offer, and some English sources even promoted news that what Rudiger is asking for In fact, it is 400,000 pounds per week, which is more than the Belgian striker Romelu Lukaku gets (350 thousand pounds per week), and even the highest salary in the entire English Premier League.
As a result of the “frozen” negotiations between the two sides, the Rudiger clan tended to open channels of communication with other clubs, and Real Madrid started the first club that expressed its desire to join it, but it is unofficial negotiations, to be activated to become official, as soon as the beginning of next January, with the opening of the transfer market. Winter, when the player is completely free to negotiate with any of the clubs that seek his services.
It is noteworthy that Rudigerl, born on March 3, 1993 (28 years old), began his professional career in Stuttgart, Germany (2012-2016), and was loaned to Rome, Italy, for one season (2015-2016), then moved to him permanently in the 2016-2017 season, after which he left for England, To play for Chelsea from the summer of 2017.
Rudiger participated in all German national teams, and began playing for the first “Manchester” in 2014.
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