Leeds United Chat • Re: Charles De Ketelaere- Belgian media reporting AC Milan move is dead.
It's been over a month now.
He is clearly absolutely adamant that he wants AC Milan.
We are the Chelsea/Arsenal in the Raphinha scenario.
We could hope that he would like to join us but the reality is he probably doesn't, certainly not with any degree of enthusiasm.
Arsenal and Chelsea bid for Raphinha but as Edu said today they knew all along he wanted Barcelona.
It's looking like that is the same for De Ketelaere and AC Milan.
One may argue that if De Ketelaere had no interest in joining us we would have withdrawn our bid by now.
But Chelsea never withdrew there Raphinha bid, they clung on despite it being made abundantly clear he had next to no interest in joining them.
Orta has shown in the past an unwillingness to accept rejection (Southampton basically had to tell us to stop calling over Che Adams).
Is this another Che Adams scenario?
It looks like De Ketelaere is putting pressure on Brugge now by not playing for them.
Strangely Jesse said last week we had moved on and that De Ketelaere wanted to join Milan.