Samuel Iling-Junior describes his decision to leave Chelsea and join Juventus in 2020, when he was still just 16, and during Covid, as “black and white”. It is a neat – if inadvertent – way of discussing playing for La Vecchia Signora (the Old Lady) of Italian football, given the colours of their famous stripes.
Ratcliffe believes spending big on marquee signings is not the way to prosper.
In his first UK newspaper interview since retiring, the Belgian star speaks about the highs and lows of an eventful career