Cristiano Ronaldo and Chelsea will fit hand-in-glove if the Blues do sign the Portuguese superstar from Manchester United this summer.
That’s the verdict of Mirror Sport columnist Stan Collymore, the former Nottingham Forest, Liverpool and Aston Villa striker who reckons Ronaldo would be a great signing for the Blues alongside Raheem Sterling from Manchester City.
Collymore said: “Ronaldo does not fit with United’s evolution, there’s no doubt about that. That’s why I have been saying for months now that they should move him on this summer. But for Chelsea, he’d be the perfect fit and I could well see his goals and Raheem Sterling’s assists taking the Blues significantly closer to Manchester City and Liverpool in the table.
"Ronaldo is a fitness geek and a player of the highest level, and his pushing of individuals would get the most out of a squad which is much more balanced and ready for success than the United team he wants to leave. Chelsea have had plenty of big-name players before and being in that part of south-west London would suit him down to the ground.
“There’s no doubt that such as Mason Mount and Reece James would seriously benefit from working with him. London, the capital, would be a breath of fresh for Ronaldo. If Chelsea do get a deal done for him it would be a win-win for both parties.” Chelsea have let Romelu Lukaku return to Inter Milan on a season-long loan just a year after signing him for £97.5million. And the club’s new owners, led by Todd Boehly, are working hard to get deals done. They are closing in on a £45m deal for City and England ace Sterling and Collymore is confident he will be a very good addition for Chelsea.
He added: “For City, Chelsea and for Sterling, the transfer is a good bit of business all round. City get a good chunk of change, Chelsea get a proven winner, and the player gets a move back to his home city and the chance to play for a club where he’s a little bit more the main man than he was at his last one. There are similarities between Sadio Mane’s decision to quit Liverpool for Bayern Munich and the move Sterling is making.
“In so much as I don’t get the feeling Sterling feels he has been as appreciated at City as perhaps he could have been. Kevin De Bruyne will be the main man at the Etihad while ever he is there. And I just wonder if the arrivals this summer of Erling Haaland and Jack Grealish last summer, great players that they are, have signalled to Sterling, a player who goes about his business quietly, that City are perhaps starting to take more of a galactico approach to their transfer policy than they have in years gone by.”
