CEO opens up and gives the green light for Chelsea to seal Upamecano transfer deal

Red Bull Leipzig CEO Oliver Mintzlaff has one again admitted that they may have to sell their best players, with Dayot Upamecano a player that Chelsea would like

Arsenal, Barcelona, PSG, Bayern Munich and now Chelsea have all entered the chase to get a transfer deal done for the young man, especially as Frank Lampard knows that his most important defender, Thiago Silva, will not be around the club for too many seasons.

And now amid all the speculation, Mintzlaff has once again admitted that they would sell their top performers if it make financial sense, commenting on potentially having to sell players, Mintzlaff told Sport BILD: “We have a squad that is very broad in terms of quality. So we will sell top performers again if it makes financial sense and we can cope with it from a sporting point of view.

“When I think of [Timo] Werner, [Matheus] Cunha, [Naby] Keita or [Diego] Demme, we’ve already made a lot of money and still made progress in terms of the sporting side.

“Overall, we have invested a lot in our team, no question about that. But look: the current squad had a market value of less than €250million (£225m) when the individual players made their debut.

“And if we now take the current market value, we are at around €550m (£495m). You have to take this plus of over €300m (£270m) into account when you talk about investments. We are creating value with our path.”

We are massive fans of the talented Frenchman and firmly believe that he will go on to become one of the very best defenders in world football, so if the green light has been given to get a deal done, we would be fools not to make some kind of move right?

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