{"id":91,"date":"2019-03-01T09:50:16","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T09:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/2019\/03\/01\/chelsea-transfer-news-alvaro-morata-exit-unclear-as-atletico-madrid-refuse-to-buy-the-striker-outright\/"},"modified":"2019-03-01T09:50:16","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T09:50:16","slug":"chelsea-transfer-news-alvaro-morata-exit-unclear-as-atletico-madrid-refuse-to-buy-the-striker-outright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=91","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea transfer news: Alvaro Morata exit unclear as Atletico Madrid refuse to buy the striker outright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alvaro Morata&#8217;s proposed move from Chelsea to Atletico Madrid is unclear as the Spanish side are only willing to take him on loan until the summer.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea want a clearer financial agreement from Atletico in regards to purchasing the striker, but Atleti are currently refusing to buy Morata outright.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea want the LaLiga side to commit to an \u00a38million loan fee with an obligation to permanently buy Morata at the end of the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Spanish outlet\u00a0Marca\u00a0reports Morata, who allegedly earns \u00a38million-a-year, is willing to take a pay cut to rejoin the club he spent two years at as a teenager.<\/p>\n<p>Maurizio Sarri has lost confidence in a player who has been inconsistent since\u00a0signing for \u00a360million from Real Madrid in 2017,\u00a0 with just nine goals scored in all competitions this season.<\/p>\n<p>He has been rotated up front with Chelsea&#8217;s only other forward, Olivier Giroud, who is a target for Barcelona, as Sarri continuously looked for a way to get the best out of a limited attack; he has even resorted to playing Eden Hazard in a unfamiliar striking role.<\/p>\n<p>Sarri hopes to get Milan&#8217;s Gonzalo Higuain on board, while an alternative option is\u00a0Bournemouth\u2019s Callum Wilson, though Cherries manager Eddie Howe has made it clear they are not planning to sell him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alvaro Morata&#8217;s proposed move from Chelsea to Atletico Madrid is unclear as the Spanish side are only willing to take him on loan until the summer. Chelsea want a clearer financial agreement from Atletico in regards to purchasing the striker, but Atleti are currently refusing to buy Morata outright. Chelsea want the LaLiga side to&#8230;<\/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-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","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=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}