Cristiano Ronaldo has been spotted in an unexpected place after Man United had excused their club icon from his pre-season return amid strong Chelsea transfer talk.
After seemingly missing out on both Ousmane Dembele and Raphinha at the hands of Barcelona, Todd Boehly has tried to quickly move on as he tries to live up to his £200million plus transfer budget promise he made to manager Thomas Tuchel at the start of the summer. A lot of the budget will be spent on the defensive side of things, whilst the other half will seemingly go on re-structuring the attack after Romelu Lukaku's dismal Blues homecoming has already resulted in an early Inter Milan return.
The likes of Hakim Ziyech, Timo Werner and Christian Pulisic could be sold this summer as Tuchel looks to re-structure an attack which fell foul of the standards set by Liverpool and Man City in 2021/22. Raheem Sterling is expected to sign this week if the latest reports are to be believed, but the identity of the second attacker remains unknown. Today Neymar and Ronaldo have both perked up again as potential options, but The Evening Standard have revealed that manager Tuchel will not be 'seduced' by big name signings. A type of acquisition backed by both Boehly and Clearlake Capital consortium partner Behdad Eghbali.
