Sir Jim Ratcliffe has signalled an end to Manchester United spending huge sums on superstar names by insisting the club’s focus should be on unearthing the “next Kylian Mbappe” and the “next Jude Bellingham”.
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 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.