If rumours are to be believed, then both Barcelona's Ousmane Dembele and Inter Milan Milan Skriniar could both become the first signings of the Todd Boehly era.
But just how true are these said rumours and could the Blues being used by the players in question to their own benefit? Well, on the 25-year-old winger, Get French Football News have reported that in the last few hours, Chelsea have swooped in with their own contract offer for a player who, as It stands, becomes a free agent on Friday.
It is important to remember that Dembele's preference is to stay put at the Camp Nou and couple this with the fact that his agent Moussa Sissoko is in renewed contract talks with the Barcelona hierarchy and these fresh updates and the timing of those start to look a little suspicious. The added names of Bayern Munich, Paris Saint-Germain and Liverpool into the Dembele equation suggest that his agent Sissoko could be using all interested parties' names to ensure that Barca cave in and do indeed renew his client's contract but only on the improved terms that have been mooted around.
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