Arsenal are reported to be interested in Kai Havertz who has two years left on his contract at Chelsea
[1]. Recently Real Madrid also were reported to be interested in Havertz but seems to have backed off after Chelsea tag on Havertz of 75-80m Euro around. 75m Euro was also reported to Arsenal and Arsenal also seems to uninterested in paying that much. But from Chelsea point of view, it is understandable given the price they paid to get Havertz from Leverkusen.
Reference:
[1] https://twitter.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1669002478086414336That price is too high for Arsenal, even if Chelsea want to keep the price of £75 million, it is likely that Arsenal will step back and prefer the purchase of Declan Rice from West Ham over Kai Havertz, it was also said in Fabrizio's statement that Real Madrid would not pay more than £50 million for Kai Havertz so according to some media the price set by Chelsea is indeed too high.
It's possible that Chelsea will lower the price, it could be that Kai Havertz will target him more quickly, on the other hand, as long as Real Madrid don't want it to be too high because they are eyeing other strikers who are more promising than Havertz
Yeah saw the *
new* update from Romano and it seems that Chelsea might be able to go below 75m Euro since player also wants the move to happen. Declan Rice is priority for Arsenal so there is no way that they will try to sign Kai Havertz when they are near to making Declan Rice to Arsenal final. Let's see how far the negotiation goes and how much of price tag will be set on Havertz.
I would say get things moving(for Havertz move) after signing Declan Rice as Xhaka is set to leave and we need someone strong in defensive midfield and Declan Rice is the right piece for it.
Chelsea management are doing as much as possible to recover some of the money that they spent during the transfer season by choosing to put the sell off price of these players that they want to let go at very high price. Arsenal will be discouraged to continue because he will be too much for them to want to buy at that price with Declan Rice deal. Liverpool were at one time interested in Mason Mount but the price on his head discouraged them.
I would say there are two purposes actually: One that they will be able to recover the money like you said but they have to due to FFP regulations. Secondly, they need to make some space also in the squad. Given the situation Chelsea are in they might have to negotiate the player price tag they set if there aren't many interested in that player. This report
[1]says that Chelsea will be making around 200m Euro worth of player sales as the FFP deadline (30th June) is approaching.
Reference:
[1] https://theprideoflondon.com/2023/04/22/chelsea-squad-clearout-ffp-deadline-set/