Chelsea had a late €80m bid turned down for an attacker, whereas there’s extra information about the way forward for Man Utd striker Cristiano Ronaldo…
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Premier League aspect Chelsea have a deadline day bid rejected for AC Milan ahead Rafael Leao, in line with stories.
The Blues introduced in Barcelona’s Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang in a everlasting switch and Juventus’ Denis Zakaria on mortgage to take their summer season spending previous the £250m mark. Wesley Fofana, Marc Cucurella, Raheem Sterling, Kalidou Koulibaly, Carney Chukwuemeka and Gabriel Slonina additionally arrived through the switch window.
And so they might’ve spent much more, according to Sunday Times journalist Duncan Castles, who claims that Chelsea supplied Milan €80m for Leao on Thursday. Their bid was turned down by the Serie A giants and so they additionally rejected a proposal to incorporate gamers.
Technical director Paolo Maldini blocked the sale and pointed Chelsea to Leao’s €150m launch clause with ‘€19m breach-of-contract debt to Sporting Lisbon [an] extra complication’.
RONALDO MYTHS
There have been many rumours surrounding Cristiano Ronaldo and his future at Man Utd his summer season with the Portugal worldwide calling out the “lies” on a few events.
Ronaldo requested to go away the membership earlier in the summertime switch window when he made it clear that he needed to play Champions League soccer this season, which is one thing Man Utd can’t supply. Nonetheless, because the window got here to a conclusion it was clear that Ronaldo was going nowhere.
There gave the impression to be little curiosity from different golf equipment in his providers regardless of Jorge Mendes’ greatest efforts to drum up enterprise round Europe. One late hearsay was that he might be concerned in a type of swap take care of Napoli striker Victor Osimhen. Studies claimed that Napoli needed Man Utd to pay all of his wages at some stage in a mortgage, whereas the Pink Devils fork out €100m for the Nigeria worldwide.
However Napoli director Cristiano Giuntoli now claims there was by no means something “concrete” over Ronaldo, he stated: “Cristiano Ronaldo to Napoli? He’s a unprecedented participant, there was nothing true. We’ve got a superb relationship with Mendes, however there was nothing concrete.”
Equally, he was linked with a transfer to Bundesliga giants Bayern Munich however Bayern Munich sporting director Hasan Salihamidzic additionally insisted that Ronaldo was by no means an “possibility” for them this summer season.
Salihamidzic stated: “He’s an extremely huge character. A giant participant who has made his mark on the world of soccer lately. It wasn’t an possibility for us as a result of we have been doing different issues and earlier than that we organized our offensive in such a method that they However you don’t need to really feel sorry for him. He’s a fantastic footballer who has achieved nice issues lately.”
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