Borussia Dortmund have announced first-choice goalkeeper Roman Burki has put pen to paper on a fresh three-year deal running until the summer of 2023.
Burki has spent the last five years at Dortmund but his future was in doubt amid reported interest from Premier League side Chelsea.
Frank Lampard would ideally like to replace current Chelsea goalkeeper Kepa at the end of the season and Burki had been touted as a potential replacement.
However, Chelsea will now have to return to the drawing board with Burki committed to Dortmund for another three years.
Lampard faces the prospect of heading into next season without changing goalkeepers due to predicted struggles offloading Kepa.
Chelsea made Kepa the most expensive goalkeeper of all-time when they paid £71.6m to Athletic Club in August 2018 and his reputation has nosedived since then.
No club, especially post-Coronavirus, will be sanction a deal anywhere close to that fee for the Spain international this summer.
Even though a move for Burki is now off the table for Chelsea, their reported interest raised eyebrows given his error-prone nature.
In fact, only Gladbach's Yann Sommer (9) has committed more errors directly leading to an opposition goal in the Bundesliga since 2017/18 than the 29-year-old (8).
