After completing the takeover of Chelsea last May, co-controlling owners Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital wanted to make a splash 💷 in the transfer market, partly to show fans their level of ambition but also to signal they would be as 💷 aggressive as former owner Roman Abramovich was in pursuing top talent.
Acting as interim sporting director amid wholesale changes at executive 💷 level, Boehly met with a large number of agents and clubs as he devised a strategy which would eventually lead 💷 the club spending over €600 million to sign 17 players. Perhaps "strategy" is too generous a word to use. It 💷 has felt haphazard, scattergun and chaotic at times, almost from the beginning when relations quickly became strained between Boehly and 💷 the head coach he inherited, Thomas Tuchel.
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Sources have told ESPN that after meeting 💷 with agent Jorge Mendes last summer, Boehly became fixated with the idea of bringing a 37-year-old Cristiano Ronaldo to Chelsea 💷 from Manchester United. The idea was presented to Tuchel, who rejected it on the basis of Ronaldo's age and that 💷 the Portugal international's inability or reluctance to press was at odds with the profile of striker he preferred. But that 💷 was not the end of the matter. Boehly raised the possibility of signing Ronaldo on several further occasions, much to 💷 Tuchel's mounting frustration.
The issue became a major bone of contention between the pair; one aspect of a deteriorating relationship which 💷 eventually led to Tuchel's sacking in early September. And, with this in mind, reports that Chelsea are tracking Neymar's situation 💷 at Paris Saint-Germain -- with sources telling ESPN's Julien Laurens that both he and the club are open to an 💷 exit -- should raise alarm bells.
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