Chelsea chairman Todd Boehly has reportedly visited Saudi Arabia for talks with key figures within the Saudi Professional League forward of what’s prone to be a busy summer time switch window for the membership.
The Telegraph report that the American billionaire used the journey to satisfy with the nation’s sport minister and the Saudi Professional League’s director of soccer Michael Emenalo, who was Chelsea’s former technical director.
Neither aspect have confirmed the aim of Boehly’s journey which occurred within the final couple of weeks, however hypothesis is mounting that the membership will once more look to satisfy their Premier League monetary truthful play commitments by promoting various gamers to the Saudi Arabian league.
The Blues final week introduced a pre-tax lack of £90.1million, however the report provides that most of the membership’s rivals consider Chelsea should increase greater than £100million earlier than June 30 if they’re to keep away from any potential rule breaches. Chelsea are stated to refute this.
This comes after Kalidou Koulibaly and Edouard Mendy swapped Stamford Bridge for Al-Hilal final summer time in offers that Boehly arrange personally. Additional strikes for Hakim Ziyech and Romelu Lukaku didn’t materialise.
Different gamers named within the report that the membership need to doubtlessly transfer on embrace goalkeeper Kepa Azrrizabalaga, who’s at the moment on mortgage at Actual Madrid, Raheem Sterling, Marc Cucurella, Armando Broja and Trevor Chalobah.
Chelsea are additionally believed to have held talks with Riyadh Air over turning into the membership’s front-of-shirt sponsor subsequent season.
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