Just in: Chelsea made serious attempts to sign 36-year-old player from Tottenham Hotspur.

Chelsea made serious attempts to sign 36-year-old player from Tottenham Hotspur.

Mauricio Pochettino’s Chelsea reportedly
wanted to sign Hugo Lloris from Ange
Postecoglou’s Tottenham Hotspur in the

summer transfer window.
According to The Telegraph, Chelsea made a call to Tottenham Hotspur goalkeeper Hugo Lloris when the Blues were looking for a new goalkeeper to replace Kepa

Arrizabalaga.
Chelsea tried to sign Hugo Lloris from Tottenham Hotspur Kepa moved to Spanish and European giants
Real Madrid on a loan deal in the summer
transfer window after Chelsea signed Robert Sanchez.

Sanchez then became the number one
goalkeeper at Chelsea, who subsequently
started the search for a deputy.
According to The Telegraph, Chelsea made a call to Lloris, but soon after, the former Premier League and UEFA Champions League winners brought in Djordje Petrovic from the New England Revolution.

Hugo Lloris

Lloris is still at Tottenham. We believe that Chelsea made the right decision to bring in Petrovic instead of signing Lloris.

The £100,000-a-week (Spotrac) Lloris is 36 now and is past his prime.
Lloris has been a regular for Tottenham for years now, and it was unlikely that he was going to play second fiddle at Chelsea.

And it was also unlikely that the goalkeeper would have moved to Chelsea given the
intense rivalry with London rivals Tottenham.

Petrovic is 23 now and could eventually
develop to become the number one
goalkeeper at Chelsea.