Kalidou Koulibaly will make a trip to join Chelsea in pre-season in the wake of booking his clinical to finish a £33million move from Napoli.
The 31-year-old will sign a four-year bargain prior to joining his new colleagues in the United States. Koulibaly will procure around £8m per year, with a further £1m accessible in rewards.
Koulibaly will be Chelsea's second signing of the summer after the Blues on Wednesday reported Manchester City forward Raheem Sterling joined the club in a £47.5m bargain.
The possible third signing will be to get Sterling's previous colleague Nathan Ake, yet the Premier League champions will just approve the £45m offer until a substitution has been agreed upon.
The summer business shows that the club's new proprietors under Todd Boehly, alongside Jose Feliciano and Behdad Egbahli at Clearlake Capital, are aggressive and are quick to move Thomas Tuchel into the transfer market.
The Blues felt they required at least two new focal defenders this late spring subsequent to losing Antonio Rudiger and Andreas Christensen on a free exchange to Real Madrid and Barcelona and are effectively looking for a further aggressor to join the crew.
The advances that have been sounded out incorporate Bayern Munich's Serge Gnabry and AC Milan's Rafael Leao. There's likewise some interest in a few defenders including Sevilla's Jules Kounde and Bayern's Dayot Upamecano.
In front of the summer, it was felt the Blues would spend around £200m as they mean to fabricate a group equipped for shutting the hole on City and Liverpool.
The arrival of wantaway Romelu Lukaku on a slice cost £7m loan to his previous club Inter was an indication of how much the new proprietors esteem Tuchel's vision.
It came under a year after Chelsea marked Lukaku for a club-record £100m under past proprietorship, with the credit charge not, in any event, covering the yearly installment portions.
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