Reason RB Leipzig striker picked Chelsea over Manchester United notwithstanding bid from Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

Reason RB Leipzig striker picked Chelsea over Manchester United notwithstanding bid from Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

RB Leipzig striker picked to join Chelsea over Manchester United due to the monetarily rewarding bid the Blues made to him.

Liverpool had been top choices to sign Timo Werner and had held broad talks with Klopp over a transition to Anfield.

The current Coronavirus pandemic has modified Liverpool’s arrangements and Jurgen Klopp conceded for the current week that he was unable to face signing a player for £50m while cuts were being made somewhere else in the club.

Ivisionsport guarantee Manchester United really presented an underlying bid for the forward before Chelsea did.

Manchester United manager wanted to sign Erling Haaland in January and the way that the club just extended  Odion Ighalo’s loan deal, instead of signing him on a permanent basis.

The Norwegian stays enthusiastic about signing another striker.

Chelsea immediately presented a subsequent bid and offered Timo Werner a bigger pay accepted to be worth around £9.8m yearly contract.

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That compares to around £200,000 weekly and surpass the pay offer that Manchester United made, Timo Werner decided to pick Chelsea.

Chelsea are one of only a handful not many clubs that will feel they can vindicate spending enormous this summer because of the way that Frank Lampard was kept from doing so when he became manager and he couldn’t sign any player because of the two-window transfer ban.

Timo Werner is set to become best paid player behind N’Golo Kante at Chelsea.