Daniel Levy has criticised Chelsea in the past for their pursuit of Spurs players so surely he wouldn’t sell Toby Alderweireld to them.
Alderweireld is about to enter the final year of his current contract and is linked with a summer exit with talks for a new deal having stalled with Spurs unwilling to meet the defender’s £150,000-a-week wage demands.
The futures of both captain Gary Cahill and David Luiz at Stamford Bridge are in doubt and the Blues view the Belgium international as the ideal replacement for one of them.
Reasons it won’t happen
The first one is relatively obvious. While Arsenal are Tottenham’s fiercest rivals there is no love lost between them and those playing a short trip away in West London either.
The second is a little more personal and goes back to 2011 when Chelsea made an approach to sign Luka Modric from White Hart Lane in a manner that upset chairman Daniel Levy.
As the Guardian outlined at the time, Levy criticised the Blues for publicly declaring their interest in Modric – who eventually joined Real Madrid a year later – and surely he wouldn’t entertain the idea of entering into negotiations with them over Alderweireld seven years on as a result?
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