No way Jose: Mourinho told Cristiano Ronaldo will not be coming to Chelsea with him
No way Jose: Mourinho told Cristiano Ronaldo will not be coming to Chelsea with him
Portuguese does hope to include Michael Essien and Thibaut Courtois in his squad on Stamford Bridge return
Nice try: Mourinho was keen to take Ronaldo to Stamford Bridge
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Jose Mourinho is expected to seal a deal for a return to Chelsea this
week – but Real Madrid president Florentino Perez insists Cristiano
Ronaldo will NOT be going with him, writes the Sunday People.
The Special One was keen to take Real’s Portuguese galactico to Stamford Bridge but Perez, fuming about Friday’s Spanish Cup Final defeat by Atletico Madrid, is adamant that Ronaldo is going nowhere.
That stance will also frustrate Manchester United, who were hoping to tempt Ronaldo into an Old Trafford return
– and had been in talks with their in-coming shirt sponsors General
Motors to fund the player’s £55million transfer fee and £10m salary.
Ronaldo
was sent off in extra-time of the Copa del Rey clash with Atletico,
after Mourinho had been sent to the stands after clashing with the
referee.
Perez is said to be raging about the end to a trophyless
campaign for the Bernabeu giants and is happy to pack his manager off to
Chelsea.
Mourinho may still have to partially buy himself out of
his Real deal when negotiations between his agent Jorge Mendes and Perez
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Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich has turned to Mourinho, with
some reluctance, after missing out on his chief managerial targets Pep
Guardiola, Jurgen Klopp of Borussia Dortmund and Manuel Pellegrini, who
is leaving Malaga for Manchester City.
Mourinho does, though,
intend to include midfielder Michael Essien and young Belgian keeper
Thibaut Courtois in his Chelsea first-team squad, after the pair enjoyed
successful loan spells in Madrid.
Courtois, 21, has spent the past two seasons at Atletico, while Essien, 30, played for Mourinho at Real this term.
The
midfielder, who has also operated at right-back for Real, has two years
left on his Chelsea deal and was a key figure in Mourinho’s
back-to-back title-winning campaigns at the Bridge.
Meanwhile
Chelsea are ready to bring Steve Kean into their management team,
despite his disastrous spell in charge of Blackburn Rovers.
The
Scot knows Mourinho from his days working in Portugal and also through
the SFA where the Special One took his coaching badges.
Kean is expected to be named Mourinho’s first team coach.
Meanwhile, Chelsea have told Manchester United to name their price for Wayne Rooney.
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