{"id":2802,"date":"2019-02-28T10:52:29","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T10:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.incirliseviye.com\/2019\/02\/28\/moratas-atletico-madrid-move-delayed-as-chaos-in-monaco-holds-up-gelson-martins-arrival-2\/"},"modified":"2019-02-28T10:52:29","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T10:52:29","slug":"moratas-atletico-madrid-move-delayed-as-chaos-in-monaco-holds-up-gelson-martins-arrival-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/?p=2802","title":{"rendered":"Morata&#039;s Atletico Madrid move delayed as chaos in Monaco holds up Gelson Martins&#039; arrival"},"content":{"rendered":"<div> Thierry Henry&#8217;s sacking has the Ligue 1 side in a spin, which has had a knock-on effect on January transfer window business <\/div>\n<div>   <\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Alvaro Morata&#8217;s move away from Chelsea has been delayed due to issues surrounding Gelson Martins&#8217; proposed loan switch to Monaco,  Goal  understands.<\/p>\n<p>The principality club have\u00a0agreed a deal to take Martins for the remainder of the season, but the sacking of Thierry Henry as the club&#8217;s manager has put the brakes on a move.<\/p>\n<p>Atletico and Monaco are both thought to remain committed to finalising the transfer, with everything agreed between the two clubs pending a medical and paperwork upon the players arriving in their new cities.<\/p>\n<div>  <span>Article continues below<\/span> <\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Editors&#039; Picks<\/h3>\n<p>    Sarri vindicated for dropping Kepa as Chelsea &amp; Pedro impress in Spurs win    Magnificent Mane takes centre stage as league leaders Liverpool put on a five-star show    Lukaku sends reminder that his Man Utd career is far from over    Man City monitoring Barcelona &amp; Chelsea target Jovic    <\/p><\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div>   <\/div>\n<p>Goal understands Atletico have reached an agreement that would see them pay \u20ac3 million (\u00a32.6m\/$3.4m) to bring in Morata for the remainder of the campaign, with the option to pay a further \u20ac40m (\u00a335.2m\/$45.6m) to buy the Spain international at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Maurizio Sarri finally got his wish when Chelsea signed Gonzalo Higuain this week, with the club having considered a summer swoop, but the Italian claims Morata had been pushing for a move for over a month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that Morata is a very good player,\u201d he told reporters ahead of Thursday&#8217;s Carabao Cup semi-final second-leg win against Tottenham.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that Morata has the characteristics for playing in my team but Morata, one month ago, said he wanted to play in another team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, it was really very difficult for him to give us the 100 per cent for his mental situation. But I think that Morata is potentially a very important player.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom the physical and technical point of view, he is a very good player and suitable for my football.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe situation changed in the last month. So, we needed to change. I don&#8217;t know [about the transfer market]. As you know very well, I don&#8217;t want to follow the market day by day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don&#8217;t know the actual situation. Morata told me 10 days ago that there was an opportunity in Spain, but I don&#8217;t know where.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Spain, Atleti boss Diego Simeone was similarly coy on details, stating: &#8220;It has not happened yet so it is not a reality. I will only talk about players who are at this club and, if Morata does join us, then I will tell you what I think.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In more concrete matters, Juventus have confirmed that Chelsea have the option to buy Higuain for \u00a331.6m\u00a0($41m) at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old Argentine could be set to make his Blues debut at the weekend as the club face Sheffield Wednesday on Sunday in the FA Cup fourth round.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thierry Henry&#8217;s sacking has the Ligue 1 side in a spin, which has had a knock-on effect on January transfer window business Alvaro Morata&#8217;s move away from Chelsea has been delayed due to issues surrounding Gelson Martins&#8217; proposed loan switch to Monaco, Goal understands. The principality club have\u00a0agreed a deal to take Martins for the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/onhee.com\/?p=2802\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Morata&#039;s Atletico Madrid move delayed as chaos in Monaco holds up Gelson Martins&#039; arrival&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-league-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}