‘I am told’: Chelsea having real issues in contract talks with player, it’s down to his change of agents, journalist says

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Matt Law explained how Andreas Christensen’s new agents have caused contract conversations with Chelsea to stall.

Speaking on the London is Blue podcast, Law dug a little deeper into the situation regarding the Denmark international.

What is going on with Christensen?

As it stands, Christensen will be able to walk away from Stamford Bridge as a free agent over the summer once his deal expires.

Foreign clubs can offer the 25-year-old terms of a transfer abroad from now until the January transfer deadline.

Barcelona are reportedly leading the way to land the defender, with talks between the two parties apparently at an advanced stage.

The centre-back is after a pay rise, as he currently sits amongst the lowest earners at Chelsea.

According to Sport1, Christensen wants to double his £84,000-a-week salary.

Antonio Rudiger, another whose contract extinguishes at the end of the season, has asked for a similar increase in wages.

Not-so-secret agents hacking a plan

Whilst there is swelling optimism that Rudiger will renew, the same cannot be said for his fellow defensive partner.

Christensen and Chelsea have yet to reach a conclusion on this matter.

At one stage, some headway had been made towards signing a new deal, before the player changed his representatives mid-way through the campaign.

It is this switch, as Law divulged, that has caused a crossroad in opinions between the two parties.

“I am told, that when that agent change happened, the new agents went back to Chelsea and basically said ‘right, we’ll start from scratch now because we are new agents and everything you talked about before was with his old agent’”, said the Telegraph journalist.

“Chelsea were like ‘no, that’s not our reading of the situation. We’ll start from the point where we thought we had an agreement and let’s take it from there.’

“The new agents didn’t want to do that. The new agents wanted to take it all the way back to the start, assuming that they wanted to just negotiate from a blank piece of paper rather than negotiating from what Chelsea thought was agreed.

“Unfortunately, that means negotiations haven’t moved on at all.”

The only thing that looks likely to move now is Christensen, unless his agents pull off another rapid reversal.

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