Augsburg left-back Baba Rahman has agreed to join Chelsea – all that is left is for the clubs to agree a fee, according to the player\u2019s agent.<\/p>\n
Rahman, 21, is understood to be have been of interest to Blues boss Jose Mourinho for some time after a standout season for a side who finished fifth in the Bundesliga last term.<\/p>\n
He played 31 times for Augsburg and made more tackles than any other left-back in the German top division last season.<\/p>\n
Sascha Empacher,\u00a0who represents the Ghana international, confirmed to German newspaper Bild<\/em>: “It is only the clubs that have to find an agreement. We on our side are agreed.”<\/p>\n Augsburg have also signed 21-year-old left-back Philipp Max this week, suggesting they are now prepared to allow Rahman to leave.<\/p>\n Rahman began his career at Bundlesliga 2 side\u00a0Greuther Furth, making his debut as a 16-year-old before a move to Augsburg in 2014.<\/p>\n He has made 31 top-flight appearances for the club and has 11 caps for Ghana, featuring in all their matches at this year’s Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n Source: Sky Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Augsburg left-back Baba Rahman has agreed to join Chelsea – all that is left is for the clubs to agree a fee, according to the player\u2019s agent. Rahman, 21, is understood to be have been of interest to Blues boss Jose Mourinho for some time after a standout season for a side who finished fifth […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":141163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[29,3],"class_list":["post-141162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/141163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}