STUTTGART, Germany (AP) — Germany forward Kai Havertz left the national team’s training camp on Friday to try to complete his transfer from Bayer Leverkusen to Chelsea.
Leverkusen sports director Rudi Voeller said Havertz is traveling to London “so that Kai can now sort things out on the ground in London with our support.”
Germany coach Joachim Löw said he expected Havertz to sign for Chelsea soon.
“We knew that now, today or tomorrow, the final details were meant to be sorted out in his contract with Chelsea,” Löw said in a video on the German soccer federation website, adding that Havertz “definitely wants to take this step.