{"id":52997,"date":"2018-08-07T15:51:23","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T13:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/08\/07\/transfer-window-kovacic-in-talks-with-chelsea-lerma-to-bournemouth-and-more-live\/"},"modified":"2018-08-07T15:51:23","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T13:51:23","slug":"transfer-window-kovacic-in-talks-with-chelsea-lerma-to-bournemouth-and-more-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=52997","title":{"rendered":"Transfer window: Kovacic in talks with Chelsea, Lerma to Bournemouth and more  \u2013\u00a0live!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Live transfer news from the Premier League and beyondTransfer interactive: latest deals and club-by-club guidesHart joins Burnley in \u00a33.5m deal from Manchester CityAnd you can email Ben here or tweet @benfisherj 2.51pm BST Chelsea have opened talks with Real Madrid over signing Croatian midfielder Mateo Kovacic, although it\u2019s unclear whether the proposed deal is for a season-long loan or permanent switch. Kovacic has wanted a move away from the Bernab\u00e9u to earn regular first-team football having made just 10 La Liga starts last season but given he\u2019s 24, Madrid are reluctant to let him leave long-term, with considerations for him to eventually take over from Luka Modric. 2.34pm BST Celtic have rebuffed Fulham\u2019s bid for defender Dedryck Boyata. The Belgium international will not feature in Wednesday\u2019s Champions League qualifier against AEK Athens but manager Brendan Rodgers is reluctant to lose his man. \u201cWe know he is in the last year of his deal,\u201d he said. \u201cHe has been a fantastic player for me in my time here, he had an excellent World Cup when he played.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/live\/2018\/aug\/07\/transfer-window-latest-news-premier-league-courtois-bernard-grealish-traore-live\" target=\"_blank\">Transfer window: Kovacic in talks with Chelsea, Lerma to Bournemouth and more  \u2013\u00a0live!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Live transfer news from the Premier League and beyondTransfer interactive: latest deals and club-by-club guidesHart joins Burnley in \u00a33.5m deal from Manchester CityAnd you can email Ben here or tweet @benfisherj 2.51pm BST Chelsea have opened talks with Real Madrid over signing Croatian midfielder Mateo Kovacic, although it\u2019s unclear whether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}