Atletico Assistant Manager – “The Russian wants to take Oblak!”

We have started to hear rumours and stories regarding Chelsea’s alleged interest in signing Atletico Madrid goalkeeper Jan Oblak.

Various links have surfaced over the last few days, and everyone is talking about it – even Atletico’s own Assistant Manager, Burgos!

As reported by Pedro Fullana of Cadena SER, Burgos admitted that his club could lose a player or two this summer, and one of those is Oblak.

He said “If I quote one that would take me from Atlético de Madrid, it will be bad, I have to name them all. Look, the Russian wants to take Oblak …”

It is quite significant to say the least, but of course, we do not know the context in which he was speaking and we only assume he is talking about Chelsea’s Russian owner Roman Abramovich.

Even still, with the links of Chelsea’s interest coming out, and the fact that Atleti bosses are talking about Oblak in that sense, really does start to make you think there could be something to these rumours. Especially when Atletico Manager Diego Simeone also spoke of Chelsea’s interest yesterday…

It would be a massive fee but a massive signing if Chelsea can pull this one off, but we know the ambition that Abramovich has shown many times in the past.

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