This backs up further reporting that there was a host of top sides chasing him.

Plettenberg names a €30m-35m valuation from the Blues, which would mean a big profit in the space of a year. Let’s just hope it’s reinvested on a solid Marc Cucurella backup.

We’re delighted that so many top teams are interested, and delighted that that means we will get such a big fee for him and make such an impressive profit for the course of just one year.

However, that does inevitably raise some questions about the whole deal – if so many top teams are super keen to sign him, shouldn’t we be thinking more about keeping him?

This is just one of those situations where we’re going to have to trust our sporting directors and our manager to make the right call.