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title: "Rosser believes with Zouma leaving, Chelsea will be confident to sign Kounde"
canonical: "https://www.footballtransfertavern.com/rosser-believes-with-zouma-leaving-chelsea-will-be-confident-to-sign-kounde/"
type: "post"
language: "en-GB"
author: "Nick Pratt"
section: "Chelsea Football Club"
published: "2021-08-28T04:30:10Z"
modified: "2021-08-28T04:30:10Z"
---

# Rosser believes with Zouma leaving, Chelsea will be confident to sign Kounde

**Evening Standard football writer Jack Rosser believes that with Kurt Zouma joining West Ham, Chelsea will be very confident of completing the signing of Jules Kounde.**

Journalist [Fabrizio Romano](https://twitter.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1431086507851493378) reported on his Twitter account that Sevilla President Castro said: *“Kounde is our player, as of now. There’s nothing agreed or done at the moment. We always consider the offers. But the days are ending.”*

Romano also posted that Chelsea are still confident and a final bid is ready once Kurt Zouma to West Ham is completed.

Kounde has played [twice](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/jules-kounde/leistungsdaten/spieler/411975) for Sevilla this season in La Liga which has seen the La Liga outfit win both their opening matches against Rayo Vallecano and Getafe and also, they have kept [two clean sheets](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/jules-kounde/leistungsdaten/spieler/411975) in the process.

Rosser believes that Chelsea are confident of getting the Kounde deal completed with Zouma moving to West Ham, telling Transfer Tavern: *“Yeah, I’ve not followed that one too closely but moving Zouma on that has been to bring Kounde in is why they’ve done it.*

*“So that would point to the fact that they’re very confident that they’ll get that one over the line and will only improve what’s already a very tight defence.”*

If Kounde does join Chelsea, then he will become the clubs [third](https://www.skysports.com/football/transfer-deals) signing of the summer window after Romelu Lukaku and Marcus Bettinelli both put pen to paper on deals at Stamford Bridge.