FREUND WILL CONTINUE IN SALZBURG
Chelsea is left without the sports director they had chosen
Published:20/09/2022 - 19:27h
Updated:20/09/2022 - 19:27h
Christoph Freund will not be Chelsea's new sporting director. RB Salzburg has refused to send him to London, while the manager considers that at the moment his place is in the Austrian team
After the name of Christoph Freund sounded like new sportive director of Chelsea, the operation has finished for falling in front of the refusal of the RB Salzburgo to concretise it, just after all aimed to that the agreement was near to close . The Austrian was the big favourite of Todd Boehly, the one who even saw him like a better option that Luís Fields. Besides, the same director has opted for continuing with his process in the Austrian team.
The information has been advanced by the skilled journalist in signings, Fabrizio Romano, indicating that the club there was desestimado this possibility: "The RB Salzburg confirms that it has decided to keep to Christoph Freund in the club and that will not join to Chelsea. The agreement of agreement reached between Freund and Chelsea the past Sunday has been cancelled since Network Bull Group will remain with the director".
Freund Chooses to follow with the Salzburgo
By his part, the Austrian has showed honoured in front of the interest of a team like the londinense, but for the moment considers that his future is in Salzburgo, where will continue exerting his functions: "Yes, it is true that Chelsea wanted to me, and had conversations, was thinking in the place of director of Chelsea because it was proud of the interest of a so important club".
The reasons of Freund not to install in the dispatches of Stamford Bridge would be of character netamente personnel, according to the words collected by 'ESPN': "When a so big club question, no only honours me to me and to the work of the FC Network Bull Salzburg, of course also is a circumstance that comports personal considerations. But I have arrived to the conclusion that I am in the best of the cases".
Likewise, the artífice of the discovery of talents like Erling Haaland, Dayot Upamecano or Sadio Mané sustains that his cycle in the RB Salzburgo still has not come to an end, especially of face to the challenges in the current season: "we Are in the middle of a very intense phase and have important tasks that do in the Bundesliga Austrian, the Glass and the League of Champions; in this is my approach and concentration".
