With Chelsea now seemingly getting their transfer window started, a few clubs are wondering if their players are safe.
One of those is Milan, whose Rafael Leão has apparently become a target for the Blues, with reports starting to circulate that the Premier League side are looking at the Portuguese forward.
Corriere dello Sport cover it on Wednesday, mentioning that the English media are the ones who broke the news, before seemingly adding information of their own.
They do state Chelsea made ‘enquiries’ via the player’s agent, and ‘asked if they could give it a try later this summer’.
As pointed out, it’s ‘just an exploratory phase’ for now, but the Serie A side ‘expect the arrival of some team who will concretely ask for the player sooner or later’.
That’s why they are keen to renew him, but if they can’t, they also won’t want to lose him on a free.
Corriere then go on to state that this is why ‘if very high concrete offers arrive, Milan would evaluate them, but only from the threshold of €80-90m’, with anything below ‘returned to sender’.
Part of this is because they owe 15% of any transfer to Lille, and with new owners at the helm, there’s a chance Chelsea could reach those figures if they really wanted to.
Certainly something to keep an eye on.
