AC Milan and Portugal striker Rafael Leao probably has to make the biggest decision of his career to date. He will soon decide if he extends his contract with AC Milan or moves to another club.
Contract talks between the club and the player have been going on for months, and you can be sure that constant interest from Chelsea is playing a big part in him, perhaps contemplating whether or not to leave.
excl. News #Leao: At this time he does not want to extend beyond 2024. He does not trust the offer. Chelsea, City, Royal in. #CFC spoke for him in Qatar. Milan rejected Chelsea’s offer (70 million euros). They want 150 million euros. The amount of the termination clause. @Sky_Marc @SkySportDE ???????? pic.twitter.com/QuUxLawSuB
— Florian Plettenberg (@Plettigoal) December 12, 2022
Chelsea fans will remember before Chelsea signed Kai Havertz from Bayer Leverkusen and he was flirting with the club on social media. I like tweets and what not.
Well, Rafael Leao seems to be subtly doing something similar, but perhaps not yet on the same scale. Leao has been doing things like following Chelsea on Snap Chat recently and retweeting this video:
Dopeeeeeee ????????♂️????????♂️ https://t.co/pSEfdg2CCf
— Rafael Leão (@RafaeLeao7) December 19, 2022
You may not know it, but TIGGZ is a video creator who knows a lot of people in the industry. When Chelsea are close to signing a player, he makes a kind of ‘welcome’ video for them. Of course, this is not a welcome video for Chelsea, but it’s very interesting that Leao RTed it anyway.
And then there’s the constant bromance between him and Reece James, often commenting on each other’s posts. Agent Reece is working hard. He has also had exchanges with Wesley Fofana lately.
Of course, this is all speculation and may not mean anything at all, so I don’t want to get anyone too excited. But when you factor it all in and add it all up, it sounds like Chelsea might at least be giving Leao something really important to think about right now. Let’s see how it ends.
