{"id":1149928,"date":"2022-07-15T13:58:30","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T13:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/15\/chelsea-end-interest-in-manchester-united-forward-after-signing-sterling\/"},"modified":"2022-07-15T13:58:30","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T13:58:30","slug":"chelsea-end-interest-in-manchester-united-forward-after-signing-sterling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/15\/chelsea-end-interest-in-manchester-united-forward-after-signing-sterling\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea end interest in Manchester United forward after signing Sterling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"490\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/image_2021-09-30_104216-696x490.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Cristiano Ronaldo | Photo credit: @Cristiano Ronaldo\/ Facebook\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cristiano Ronaldo | Photo credit: @Cristiano Ronaldo\/ Facebook <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Chelsea have ended their interest in signing Manchester United forward Cristiano Ronaldo.<\/p>\n<p>The Portuguese international, 37, wants to leave the club and has been linked with a move to Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>But after signing former Manchester City forward\u00a0Raheem Sterling\u00a0on Wednesday, Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel said his \u201cfocus is on defence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Manchester United boss Erik Ten Hag has also said Ronaldo is\u00a0\u201cin our plans\u201d and \u201cnot for sale\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>The forward has yet to join Manchester United\u2019s pre-season tour of Asia and Australia because of what Ten Hag called \u201cpersonal issues\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>When BBC Sport asked Tuchel about interest in Ronaldo on Wednesday, he said: \u201cRonaldo\u2019s career speaks for himself. I know there are rumours out there, but I will not start speaking about other top clubs\u2019 top players.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea\u2019s new owners are understood to be delighted with the recruitment of England international Sterling and consider him to be a marquee signing.<\/p>\n<p>And Tuchel said he hoped\u00a0Sterling could help \u201cshape\u201d his team\u00a0and provide leadership to a young attack following the departure of Romelu Lukaku to Inter Milan on loan.<\/p>\n<p>The German coach said Chelsea needed to \u201cwork smart and fast\u201d in the transfer market to catch their rivals following sanctions on the club, with Napoli defender\u00a0Kalidou Koulibaly set to sign a four-year deal\u00a0and talks held with City centre-back\u00a0Nathan Ake.<\/p>\n<p>There have also been links with Paris St-Germain and France centre-back Presnel Kimpembe, who played under Tuchel when he was manager of the French club between 2018 and 2020.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"wDky6IU8-fQ\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kasiebo Tau At 9:55 AM on Adom TV (15-7-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wDky6IU8-fQ?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cristiano Ronaldo | Photo credit: @Cristiano Ronaldo\/ Facebook Chelsea have ended their interest in signing Manchester United forward Cristiano Ronaldo. 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But after signing former Manchester City forward\u00a0Raheem Sterling\u00a0on Wednesday, Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel said his \u201cfocus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1149930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[58,4233,1762,3290,9162,2822],"class_list":["post-1149928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-chelsea","tag-interest","tag-manchester","tag-signing","tag-sterling","tag-united"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1149928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1149928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1149928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1149928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}