Chelsea’s negotiations with Bayern Munich over the potential sale of Callum Hudson-Odoi are being complicated by their demand for a buy-back clause for the 18-year-old, to which the German champions are reluctant to agree. Chelsea have lost out on a number of occasions as a result of their failure to include buy-back clauses when selling young players in recent years — missing out on Romelu Lukaku when their former striker chose to join Manchester United two years ago and being forced to pay over four times the sale price when re-signing Nemenja Matic from Benfica in 2014 — and are determined to avoid making a similarly costly error with Hudson-Odoi. Chelsea want to keep Hudson-Odoi, but with the player seemingly set on pushing through a…

Source: The Times January 11, 2019 17:03 UTC