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Chelsea defender Ian Maatsen flew to Germany on Tuesday night time forward of finishing his mortgage transfer to Borussia Dortmund.
The Bundesliga facet pays a £2m mortgage price and Maatsen is to bear a medical on Wednesday.
The 21-year-old left-back will lengthen his Chelsea contract till 2027 to place the membership in a stronger negotiating place over a everlasting sale in the summertime, nonetheless, the brand new contract can also be understood to comprise a launch clause.
While the Blues will likely be delighted to get Maatsen – who has featured 12 occasions within the Premier League – some common taking part in time, they’ll first should handle their present loanees, as per FIFA guidelines.
Rules state that golf equipment are solely allowed to mortgage out seven gamers internationally at anybody time to attempt to forestall the stockpiling of expertise.
Dortmund and Chelsea have made a verbal settlement over a mortgage deal for Ian Maatsen
However, Mauricio Pochettino’s facet might want to cancel one among their seven overseas loanee
Currently, forward of Maatsen’s transfer, Chelsea have already got seven gamers loaned out to overseas golf equipment – which means they must cancel one among their present loans to ensure that the full-back to depart.
Their present loanees embody Romelu Lukaku, Kepa Arrizabalaga, Angelo, Hakim Ziyech, David Fofana, Gabriel Slonina and Diego Moriera.
The most probably of these to have their mortgage deal terminated is winger Ziyech, with Galatasaray prepared to chop ties with the participant simply 5 months after his arrival within the Turkish Super Lig.
He’s featured 14 occasions in all competitions, with two extra objectives coming within the Champions League however has been ‘ineffective’ and never in a position to ‘carry out as anticipated’, in line with Turkish outlet NTV Spor.
And amid the participant’s fixed battle to remain match this season – having missed 9 video games by damage after issues along with his foot and hamstring, Galatasaray are actually mentioned to be prepared to chop his mortgage deal quick and ship him again to Chelsea.
The Blues additionally just lately opted to recall Andrey Santos from his mortgage spell at Nottingham Forest.
Santos joined the Blues from Brazilian facet Vasco de Gama in January 2023 for £18million earlier than becoming a member of Forest on mortgage within the current summer season window.