Whether that happens or not remains to be seen, but the 26-year-old has seemingly disappeared off the face of the earth, with reports of his relationship with the Portuguese manager being rather poor.
That is, at least, what Calciomercato have to say in a very brief article on the player’s future, claiming the London club have joined Juventus and Napoli in the list of clubs interested in Darmian.
The entirety of the article is: ‘Oltre a Juventus e Napoli ci sarebbe anche il Chelsea sulle tracce di Matteo Darmian, esterno difensivo classe 1989 in scadenza nel 2019 con il Manchester United.’
We’ve had a look around, and we can’t really find another source for this article, suggesting it may come from the Italian website, but you would’ve thought they would make a bigger deal out of it if that was the case.
The story has already made its way to English newspapers, and will no doubt become a ‘thing’, but if Calciomercato only deem it worthy of one sentence then they don’t sound too convinced themselves.
It’s a bit weird, but this could just be the case of Antonio Conte + sad Darmian = lightbulb for a story.
