Fresh information has emerged on how Maurizio Sarri secured his much-awaited release from Chelsea for him to join Juventus after a prtracted negotiations with the Stamford Bridge club.

The Italian coach finally received Chelsea’s nod to become Juventus manager after the Italian champions agreed a £7million compensation fee with Chelsea on Thursday night.

According to the Daily Mail, the two clubs struck a deal after further talks between Chelsea director Marina Granovskaia and Juventus sporting director Fabio Paratici, who flew to London to try and find a resolution, on Thursday.

Sarri, 60, had two years left on his £5m-a-year Chelsea contract. And the Blues were refusing to cave into Juventus’s attempts to land Sarri on the cheap.

At one stage Juve hoped they would land Sarri for nothing as they usually refuse to pay compensation for managers.

But Chelsea dug their heels in and forced Juve to cough up in another negotiation win for Granovskaia, who was holding out for as big a compensation fee as possible, a week after she made Real Madrid agree a deal worth up to £150m for Eden Hazard despite the Belgian having just one year left on his contract.

Sarri is now clear to sign the three-year deal he agreed in principle with Juventus last month after they made him their top choice to replace Massimiliano Allegri.

The former Napoli boss will be announced as the new Juventus manager today.

He will earn up to £6.2m a year as manager of Juventus and his exit will be rubber-stamped in the next 24 hours, while Chelsea will step up their attempts to replace him with Derby boss Frank Lampard the leading candidate.

Derby are braced for an offer for Stamford Bridge legend Lampard who would bring former Blues midfielder and youth coach Jody Morris from Pride Park back to their old club as his assistant.

There are reports that Matthijs de Ligt’s family have dropped a major hint that his PSG switch is close to being a done deal after they were seen in Paris looking for houses.

Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf reported they spent Wednesday in Paris and were taken to see properties in a vehicle with tinted windows provided by PSG.

Meanwhile, De Ligt has reportedly been offered a staggering £11million a year from French giants Paris Saint-Germain in order to complete his move to the Ligue 1 champions and bring one of the summer’s transfer sagas to a close.

The Ajax star has generated an intense transfer battle between top European clubs, report the Mirror.

Manchester United and Barcelona were both heavily linked with a move for the teenager, but PSG’s financial clout and link with De Ligt’s agent Mino Raiola – who has been pictured in Paris this week, where he is believed to have held talks with PSG sporting director Antero Henrique – appears to have taken them to the front of the queue for the in-demand defender, who could now tie up his transfer in the coming days.

ESPN claim that De Ligt has been offered a huge contract of £211,000 a week by PSG, with the five-year deal on offer for the centre-back eventually worth a huge £55million over the course of the entire contract.

Former Chelsea star Eden Hazard has revealed that talk of a move to Real Madrid emerged after the 2018 World Cup in Russia.

The Belgian winger was officially presented as a Real player on Thursday night and he reflected on a meeting with club president Florentino Perez where talk of a move from London to Madrid was raised.

‘After the World Cup there was contact but I stayed at Chelsea for another season,’ the club’s £150million signing said as cited by the Daily Mail.

‘I think it was a good decision. We won the Europa League, it was a good campaign personally, and I just think it was the right time to join Real Madrid.’

It transpires that the pair came face-to-face in London last year with lots of suggestions it was at FIFA’s The Best awards.

Perez has been a long-term admirer of Hazard and laid the foundations of a move then, before being able to show off the club’s new signing on Thursday.

‘He joked that it would be a good time to move to Madrid,’ Hazard said in his first press conference as a Real Madrid player.

‘I thought it was very nice to hear things like that from the president of Real Madrid.’

Florentino Perez has openly confessed he attempted to sign Eden Hazard from Chelsea before this summer.

Hazard always talked about his dream to don the Los Blancos’ white jersey when he was at Stamford Bridge. But Chelsea would not want to let their talisman go until the Belgian walked up to the London club hierachy to tell them about his desire to leave.

Real Madrid and Chelsea subsquently met and the Spanish giants agreed to pay Chelsea 130m for Hazard.

“It is something that I have wanted to do for a long time,” Perez told reporters, as cited by Marca.

“Today we welcome one of the best players in the world to our club. He will fulfil one of our dreams, people want to enjoy his talent and creativity.

“The members of this club and supporters will be by his side because they know that his football is special and different.”

“A marvellous player has arrived, one who is different and capable of doing amazing things with a football.

“Footballers with a unique talent like Hazard have formed our great history. We’ve applied the philosophy of our president Santiago Bernabeu and our honorary president Alfredo Di Stefano, who changed the history of this club.

“Our story must continue with the best players in the world and Eden is in this bracket, he will fit our identity and our squad with Zinedine Zidane.”

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Days after Atletico Madrid striker Alvaro Morata’s home was burgled in Madrid, Inter Milan striker Ivan Perisic also fell victim to the dare-devil robbers.

The Croatia international was on international duty when the robbers struck in his house in Milan.

Reports claim that the robbers made away with with over €80,000 in items stolen, including luxury watches.

The incident was reported in La Stampa newspaper, noting Perisic arrived at the police station for an interview.

Perisic and his wife are believed to have been robbed of three luxury watches, a Rolex worth €20,000, a limited edition Audemars Piguet worth €50,000 and his Hublot worth €12,000, report Football Italia.

The watches – two belonging to his wife and one owned by the player – were in two separate containers.

It seems as if the robbery was only just discovered, but may well have happened during his trip to Croatia for international duty.

There were no signs of forced entry in the 19th-floor apartment.

Perisic lives in an apartment in the popular Garibaldi area of Milan where a number of Inter’s squad reside.

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Chelsea legend Didier Drogba has thrown his support behind the move to appoint Frank Lampard as manager of the Stamford Bridge club as Maurizio Sarri wants to join Juventus.

The former Napoli boss has been heavily linked with the vacant post of manager of the Old Lady after Max Allegri parted ways with the Serie A giants at the end of last season.

A number of top coaches across Europe have been pencilled down to take take over from the Italian who won Europa Cup for Chelsea and secured Champions League ticket for the club despite his problem with some of the fans.

One of the coaches is former midfielder of the London club, Lamapard, who has been touted by the club’s supporters to replace Sarri on account of his performance at Derby County last season.

Drogba and Lampard were part of one of the most successful teams in Chelsea’s history, winning the Champions League along with many other titles.

And the former striker believes that the Blues should back the former midfielder should Sarri leave after one season in charge.

“I think it [Lampard] is a very good option for the club,” Drogba said.

“He has done well with Derby, you know, taking the team to the play-off final and I think it is a very good option for the club.”

One of the apprehensions that some Chelsea fans have had is over Lampard’s experience as a top flight manager, report Football.London.

Asked if Lampard was ready, Drogba replied: “So he is never going to be ready, then? Does he have to wait until he is 40 or 50 to be ready? I think it depends on your experience and depends on your desire to succeed and do it.

“If he feels ready I don’t think it is too early.”