Jonas Hector-to-Chelsea rumor, we hardly knew ya.
Just 24 hours after reappearing in the Chelsea rumor mill on the back of a Times report, it’s already on its way out, thanks to the reaction to those rumors from Hector’s club 1. FC Köln themselves.
Head coach Peter Stöger revealed that he’s losing a grand total of zero sleepless nights over what Bild are calling a bit of “transfer poker”. We’ve got him right where we want him, boys! Go for the jugular! Re-raise!
“I will not have sleepless nights.”
Meanwhile, “unimpressed” sporting director Jörg Schmadtke took a more pragmatic view.
“And we want Kurt Zouma from Chelsea, a class central defender. Unfortunately we can not get him.”
-Jörg Schmadtke; source: Express via Google Translate
No, you may not. We do have John Terry available on loan, possibly, would that interest you maybe?
So yeah, that was fun for a minute, to be speculatively linked with a proper wing-back. Back to extolling the merits of Aké, Pedro, or Kenedy as Alonso’s backups then...