{"id":68,"date":"2026-04-16T21:15:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=68"},"modified":"2026-04-16T21:15:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:15:01","slug":"52m-release-clause-is-negotiable-as-chelsea-vie-with-liverpool-and-man-united-for-24-y-o-defender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=68","title":{"rendered":"\u00a352M Release Clause Is &#8220;Negotiable&#8221; As Chelsea Vie With Liverpool And Man United For 24 y\/o Defender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<article>\n<p><strong>Sporting Lisbon could sell Goncalo Inacio for a fee below his \u20ac60m (\u00a352m) release clause, with Chelsea among his suitors, according to <em>AS<\/em> reporter Eduardo Burgos.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Writing on his X account, the journalist confirmed that the clause is \u201cnegotiable\u201d, which has sparked interest in the 24-year-old, who has been in impressive form this season.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Chelsea, it is believed Liverpool and Manchester United are also keeping tabs on Inacio, along with teams in Spain.<\/p>\n<p>The defender will be in action against Arsenal on Wednesday evening as Sporting look to overturn a one-goal deficit from the 1st leg of their Champions League quarter-final tie.<\/p>\n<h2>Chelsea may have second thoughts about pursuing the player<\/h2>\n<p>It should be noted that Inacio is left-footed, so he will be in direct competition with Levi Colwill if he were to make the switch to Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sra_unit\"><link rel=\"stylesheet\" id=\"block-sra\" href=\"https:\/\/chelseanews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/snack-related-articles\/dist\/css\/snack-related.min.css?230424-120159\" type=\"text\/css\" media=\"all\"\/>\n<aside class=\"sra-group sra-related-list\">\n<h2 class=\"sra-group-head\">Most Read on Chelsea News<\/h2>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>While recruiting a centre-back during the summer transfer window is expected to be a priority, the Blues are more likely to target a partner for Colwill, rather than a rival for his position.<\/p>\n<h2>Who could be targeted instead of Inacio?<\/h2>\n<p><smartframe-embed customer-id=\"0fab81ce12e48a0794275e1d82449fb1\" image-id=\"1074882433\" style=\"width: 100%; display: inline-flex; max-width: 100%;\"\/><!-- https:\/\/smartframe.io\/embedding-support --><br \/>Even though Inacio is clearly a player of interest to Chelsea\u2019s recruitment team, it would be a surprise if he is top of the club\u2019s shortlist of targets.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>two likeliest candidates<\/strong> appear to be Nottingham Forest\u2019s Murillo and Brighton\u2019s Jan Paul van Hecke. The former could come onto the market for a relatively low price this summer if his team are relegated. He has been on the London club\u2019s radar for several years.<\/p>\n<p>Van Hecke, meanwhile, is set to leave Brighton due to the fact that he is closing in on the final year of his contract at the Amex. However, reports suggest that the Seagulls will still demand around \u00a350m for the Dutchman.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more about the Chelsea First Team Squad for 2025\/26 here<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/article><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sporting Lisbon could sell Goncalo Inacio for a fee below his \u20ac60m (\u00a352m) release clause,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}