The Ligue 1 champions may be forced to wait patiently to sew up a deal for the talented defender <\/p>\n
Thilo Kehrer’s anticipated move to Paris Saint-Germain remains subject to the agreement of personal terms, according to Schalke sporting director Christian Heidel.<\/p>\n
The 21-year-old defender has been poised for a switch to the Ligue 1 champions since Schalke accepted a reported \u20ac37 million (\u00a333m\/$42m) offer.<\/p>\n
PSG coach Thomas Tuchel stated earlier this week that he was unclear as to the stage of negotiations, which appear to still be in their infancy.<\/p>\n
Article continues below<\/span> <\/p>\n Juve on alert: Exiled Icardi may have already played his final game for Inter Sarri vindicated for dropping Kepa as Chelsea & Pedro impress in Spurs win Magnificent Mane takes centre stage as league leaders Liverpool put on a five-star show Lukaku sends reminder that his Man Utd career is far from over <\/p>\n Kehrer, who made 28 Bundesliga appearances last season, had agreed a new contract with Schalke prior to PSG’s approach.<\/p>\n “Kehrer’s transfer to PSG is not yet complete,” Heidel told reporters on Wednesday.<\/p>\n “The contracts are still to be signed and he still needs to sort his personal terms.”<\/p>\n Schalke head coach Domenico Tedesco is confident his team can cope with the loss of Kehrer should the deal proceed as expected.<\/p>\n “We have a very good squad, a good mix,” he said.<\/p>\n “Even without Thilo, we have a total of five options for [the back three], so if we play a back four we only need two centre-backs.”<\/p>\n Heidel revealed the club are currently in talks with a left-sided player, although the potential new signing is not expected to be rumoured target Danny Rose.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Ligue 1 champions may be forced to wait patiently to sew up a deal for the talented defender Thilo Kehrer’s anticipated move to Paris Saint-Germain remains subject to the agreement of personal terms, according to Schalke sporting director Christian Heidel. The 21-year-old defender has been poised for a switch to the Ligue 1 champions…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Editors' Picks<\/h3>\n