{"id":614622,"date":"2022-07-04T10:20:57","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T14:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=614622"},"modified":"2022-07-13T04:44:33","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T08:44:33","slug":"thomas-tuchel-neymar-cristiano-ronaldo-chelsea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/04\/thomas-tuchel-neymar-cristiano-ronaldo-chelsea\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Boss Thomas Tuchel Hesitant on Neymar and Cristiano Ronaldo Signings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Neymar and Cristiano Ronaldo have been offered to Chelsea, reports Nizaar Kinsella of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/sport\/football\/chelsea-fc-neymar-cristiano-ronaldo-transfer-latest-b1010029.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Evening Standard<\/a>. Paris Saint-Germain are open to selling their Brazilian star while Ronaldo&#8217;s representatives, not Manchester United, have been in touch regarding the Portuguese legend.<\/p>\n<p>Despite these offers, Kinsella states that Thomas Tuchel isn&#8217;t being swayed by the superstars on offer and is focused solely on the chase of <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/28\/raheem-sterling-chelsea-manchester-city\/\" target=\"_self\">Raheem Sterling<\/a>. Despite this, higher-ups at Chelsea could be interested in signing the 37-year-old Ronaldo according to <a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/news\/cristiano-ronaldo-chelsea\/2stnytD5AHQv\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Athletic&#8217;s David Ornstein<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Thomas Tuchel Hesitant Over Signing Cristiano Ronaldo and Neymar<\/h2>\n<h3>Cristiano Ronaldo<\/h3>\n<p>The Portuguese legend has made it clear that he wants a <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/26\/cristiano-ronaldo-exploring-manchester-united-exit-options-amid-transfer-market-inactivity\/\" target=\"_self\">move away from Old Trafford<\/a>, citing inactivity in the transfer market as a big reason why he wants to leave. The 37-year-old has since missed the first day of training for what <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1543873819416354818\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fabrizio Romano reports<\/a> was &#8220;due to family reasons.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/24\/chelsea-transfer-budget-new-owners\/\" target=\"_self\">Chelsea Transfer Budget Revealed With Thomas Tuchel Promised Up to Six Summer Signings<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Athletic report states that Todd Boehly has had meetings with Jorde Mendes (Ronaldo&#8217;s agent) and is interested in the idea of signing such an iconic player. Other directors, specifically Behdad Eghbali, are keen to recruit the footballing legend.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Confirmed. Cristiano Ronaldo to miss return to Manchester United training today \u201cdue to family reasons\u201d, club have accepted this explanation. \ud83d\udea8\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf9 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MUFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#MUFC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Man United are aware of his desire to leave the club &#8211; but insist on their position: not for sale, want to keep him. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Tzj40IidtU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/Tzj40IidtU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1543873819416354818?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 4, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Neymar<\/h3>\n<p>PSG have not been shy about their desire to offload the Brazilian this summer. The French side are open to selling and the player is keen on a move to the Premier League but his wage packet would be unpayable. Neymar has previously stated a desire to <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/04\/24\/neymars-future-paris-saint-germain\/\" target=\"_self\">remain with the club<\/a> through to the end of his contract which may be the most likely outcome.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/18\/every-premier-league-transfer-completed-in-summer-2022\/\" target=\"_self\">Every Premier League Transfer Completed in Summer 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Thomas Tuchel Resilient<\/h3>\n<p>Both Kinsella and Ornstein agree that Tuchel is hesitant to sign these superstar players, largely due to the inability of Romelu Lukaku to fit into Chelsea&#8217;s high-pressing style of play. In addition, he is worried that it would upset the balance of the squad, instead hoping that the team focuses on signings like Sterling and Raphinha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neymar and Cristiano Ronaldo have been offered to Chelsea, reports Nizaar Kinsella of the Evening Standard. Paris Saint-Germain are open to selling their Brazilian star while Ronaldo&#8217;s representatives, not Manchester United, have been in touch regarding the Portuguese legend. Despite these offers, Kinsella states that Thomas Tuchel isn&#8217;t being swayed by the superstars on offer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":614634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7188,11,7,18,1367,3],"tags":[1407,369,389],"class_list":["post-614622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rumours","category-chelsea","category-ligue-1","category-manchester-united","category-paris-saint-germain","category-premier-league","tag-chelsea-transfers","tag-cristiano-ronaldo","tag-neymar"],"modified_by":"Joseph Howes, Site Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}