Chelsea may be ruing the Champions League draw for allowing Manchester City to get close to Borussia Dortmund. The pair played each other in the 2021 tournament and one year later Erling Haaland is tearing up the Premier League in a sky blue shirt.
City have a relationship with Dortmund that Chelsea can't currently rival, with Roman Abramovich and Marina Granovskaia not having been involved in transfer discussions with the German club in recent years. Todd Boehly doesn't even have that level of rapport yet, and it could harm the chances of securing one of the world's most talented players.
Chelsea, like any football club, will be desperate to come out on top in the battle to sign Jude Bellingham next summer. It is believed that the Blues did make an attempt, albeit it speculative, to get him one season early, but that was to no avail.
