Thomas Tuchel's side returned to him this summer, but chose to pursue Matthijs De Ligt and Nathan Ake in the early weeks of the summer window. The two chasing failed and they turned their attention back to Kounde.
The conversation took place with Sevilla and the £ 55 million offer was made with the Spanish team. There was no progress made because the conversation was continuous and personal requirements were not a problem after agreeing to them with players last summer.
However, Barcelona was very interested in French international players and turned back those who were interested when they were seen out of the race.
ITH KOUNDE to convince him to live in Spain, while the Catalan giant works on a transfer proposal.
Now as reported by Sport in Spain, they claim that Barcelona has an offer of £ 42.5 million plus £ 8.5 million in add-ons received by Sevilla.
He is the target number one club, and personal requirements have been agreed between Kounde and Barcelona.
Barcelona wants to close the agreement as soon as possible because Chelsea hopes to increase their offer because Thomas Tuchel seems to win the race for the 23 -year -old player.
Fabrizio Romano reported that Barcelona accepted indications from the KOUNDE camp that he would be ready to accept their requirements
Kouse remains in Portugal with Sevilla for pre-season but waits for the green light to leave the club when they finish their future.
Before returning to London from their United States tour, Tuchel insisted there was no new update regarding the pursuit of their KOUDE.
"There is no update, there is no update," Tuchel said in Kounde after their 4-0 defeat of Arsenal.
"The season analysis has not changed because of this game. Unfortunately, it proves my intention and last week proves my intention.
"I prefer to be untrue and I do everything to prove myself wrong, but at this time I feel right when I see last season and in the part of the game where we struggled and how we struggled.
"We got sanctions and players left us, we knew that some players tried to leave us, and this was where it was. We have an urgent attraction for quality players and a large number of quality players.
"We have two quality players - that is no doubt - but we are not competitive like this and unfortunately, we can see it today."
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