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The Blues bet 50 million pounds to chase supernova! The 20-year-old genius is not going to Chelsea

11:22pm, 8 June 2025Football

Chelsea and Dortmund are having a crazy game over the transfer of 20-year-old England supernova Gittens. This deal that has affected the nerves of the Premier League and the Bundesliga has entered the countdown stage - the Blues must break through the 50 million pounds liquidated damages defense line within 48 hours, otherwise they will miss the opportunity to strengthen the Club World Cup. What's more dramatic is that Manchester City secretly held the "commission code" in his hand, which made the negotiation hidden mystery.

7 long appointment locks in the future, and the Blues Lightning defeated the player and promised that the Dortmund training base, Gittens's agent was photographed talking to Chelsea senior executives for 3 hours and then leaving the court with a smile. This confirms the core progress exposed by German media: the Blues have successfully persuaded Gittens to nod, and the two sides signed a super long contract until 2031. For a 20-year-old player, this is equivalent to entrusting all his golden career to Stamford Bridge.

People familiar with the matter revealed that Gittens submitted an ultimatum to Dortmund that "no Chelsea will go" without Chelsea. This decisive attitude has allowed potential competitors such as Bayern and Liverpool to leave the game directly, but it also transfers all the pressure to Chelsea - if Dortmund's asking price cannot be met, players would rather stay in the team and wait. The quotation for

35 million euros was rejected in seconds! Dortmund showed its 50 million pound trump card, Chelsea's negotiating team is experiencing a double fire. The tentative offer of 35 million euros (about 29.5 million pounds) in the first round was rejected by Dortmund within 15 minutes. The Bundesliga giants made a tough statement: "Either pay 50 million pounds of liquidated damages or give up." This heavy punch hits the Blues' weakness - they both want to avoid high liquidated damages and have to race against time.

Dortmund's confidence comes from Gittens's explosive data this season: 15 goals (12 goals + 3 assists) were created in 48 games, and 4 goals in the Champions League knockout stages showed the attributes of the big scene. The market valuation of the popular fried chicken has long exceeded 60 million euros, but the 50 million pound liquidated damages clause in the contract (about 59.5 million euros) has become a "discounted price".

Manchester City scored 10%! The Blues' actual cost has risen by 10 million. An overlooked deadly detail has surfaced: Manchester City holds a 10% share clause for Gittens' second transfer. This means that even if Chelsea sells for 50 million pounds, actual spending will soar to 55 million pounds (about 65.5 million euros). If the negotiations are cut to 45 million pounds, the Blues will still have to pay an additional 4.5 million pounds for Manchester City, and the total cost is still higher than the direct purchase penalty.

This hidden fee completely disrupted Burley's negotiation strategy. Financial experts have calculated that when Chelsea quotes more than 40.9 million pounds, triggering liquidated damages is more cost-effective. This explains why Dortmund refused to make concessions - they saw that the Blues were trapped in the "mathematical trap".

48 hours of ultimate negotiation! The countdown of the Club World Cup window is closed

The electronic clock of the Stamford Bridge office has begun. At 23:59 pm local time on June 10, local time, the summer window specially set up by FIFA for the Club World Cup will be permanently closed. If Chelsea wants to use Gittens to compete in this globally renowned event, they must create miracles in the next two days.

Dortmond is obviously using the time difference to put pressure on. The Bundesliga teams are well aware that missing Club World Cup registration is equivalent to losing Chelsea to at least 30 million pounds of commercial income. But the Blues also have counter-bargaining chips - Gittens's contract extension has only two years left, and Dortmund will face the risk of asset depreciation next year.

Is the 20-year-old genius worth half a million? Data disassembly caused the Premier League earthquake

Gittens's transfer caused a storm because he was tied to a triple value bomb:

1. The scarce household registration property

The local elite strikers in the Premier League have severely cut off, and there are no world-class players except Kane and Saka. Gittens' winger data, which averaged 3.1 breakthroughs and 1.8 key passes in the Bundesliga, just fills the weakest link in England.

2. Successful inspection of the Champions League

Compared with the superstars sold by Dortmund in recent years, Sancho scored 0 goals in the Champions League when he transferred to Manchester United at the age of 21, and Haaland scored 0.78 in the Champions League goal rate before leaving the team. Gittens averaged 0.44 goals per game in the Champions League this season, surpassing his predecessors in the same period.

3. The capital logic behind the 7-year long contract

Chelsea will play the magic of amortization to the extreme. Assuming that the total price of 50 million pounds is signed for 7 years, only 7.14 million pounds of cost must be set aside every year, which will perfectly avoid the restrictions of the Fiscal Fairness Act (FFP). This trick has been tried and tested on Enzo and Muderick.

Ultimate Suspense

The Blues sent Plan B to Dortmund overnight - the offer was raised to 38 million pounds of basic transfer fee + 12 million pounds of floating terms. Among them, the 8 million pound clause was linked to Gittens's winning of the Golden Globe Award, and was ridiculed by German media as "science fiction-level operation".

However, industry insiders pointed out that Chelsea may promise to loan youth training young player Angero (18-year-old Brazilian winger) to Dortmund. This "talent voucher" model has been signed by Arsenal and Real Madrid to acquire Camavin overtime.

This transfer game has surpassed the simple battle of money and evolved into a triple battlefield of club strategy, legal terms and psychological competition. No matter which number the final transaction price is set, Gittens's name has been written into the history of the Premier League summer window - he is the first English striker among the post-00s players to trigger a 50 million pound-level battle, and is more likely to be the last puzzle of Chelsea's youthful revolution.

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