With further confirmation the Premier League is swimming in obscene amounts of cash comes another splurge of speculation about where its clubs are going to throw it. Manchester United, for example, have been overtaken by Liverpool in the Deloitte money league but they’ve still got plenty of readies to toss about, and Benfica and Portugal’s Ronaldo-displacer Gonçalo Ramos is on their radar, according to the Portuguese outlet O Jogo.
They’d need to cough up the striker’s €120m release clause mind, but with optimism high at Old Trafford and wealthy fracking fan Sir Jim Ratcliffe linked to a takeover, who’s to say they can’t land him?
