Chelsea in for Begovic – Butland to Stoke? 0
Posted on
January 31, 2013 by
PaddyMac
Chelsea are trying to reach an agreement with Stoke City for goalkeeper Asmir Begovic, with the deal appearing to be reliant on Stoke’s capture of Jack Butland.
Chelsea had a bid accepted for the young England keeper yesterday, only for Butland to refuse talks with the club. The 19 year-old now appears key to the Blues latest goalkeeping target.
Stoke City have apparently had a £4Million bid accepted by Birmingham City, and are set to hold talks with the highly-rated keeper on a permanent move.
Butland refused to talk to Chelsea as he did not see the possibility of playing first-team football at the club, and rightly so.
