Cesar Azpilicueta is a quiet hero, a covert legend. Having joined Chelsea from Marseille in 2013 for the price of £6.5 million, few would have thought the Spanish defender would have developed into one of Chelsea’s most reliable players of all time.
Yet, as is now well known to just about everyone interested in Premier League football, Chelsea have a slightly inconvenient problem tumbling their way in the form of various defenders running out of contract in the next two seasons.
One of those defenders is club captain Cesar Azpilicueta, who has been on the Barcelona radar for some time now.