Transfer gossip: Chelsea promise transfer chief £260m budget; City could hijack Liverpool deal

Jude Bellingham could be on Man City's radar and with a £260m budget promised to Luis Campos, Chelsea could enter that race as well.

LUIS CHANGES Through the vagaries of Google Translate, we discover that Chelsea owner Todd Boehly is "on fire".

The American is certainly enjoying his new spotlight, coming up with that ever-peripheral idea of ​​a Premier League All-Star game North vs South to bring more money into the English football pyramid.

But Boehly seems more determined to filter his finances, with Le Parisien suggesting an €8m deal has been offered to PSG adviser Luis Campos to help Chelsea through the next two transfer windows.< /p>

The agreement between Campos and PSG is relatively loose and allows him to work in an official capacity with two other clubs. His role at Celta Vigo leaves one more vacant place in his diary.

And Chelsea believe they can tempt Campos into the Premier League with a 'pharaonic envelope' of 300 million euros, which would roughly correspond to the summer spending granted to Thomas Tuchel.

It is also mentioned that Sir Jim Ratcliffe would target Campos for a place at Manchester United should he ever buy the club from the Glazers, but this takeover talk has died down considerably.

HEY JUDE In a preview of the upcoming Champions League match between Manchester City and Borussia Dortmund, the Daily Mail's Jack Gaughan offers some interesting insights.

It regales us with memories of the failed "Project Kane" of summer 2021, a story still worth revisiting.

Erling Haaland was their first-choice attacking target then, but Dortmund would not play ball. The Kane option was therefore explored, but the £150m valuation was too high.

The focus in October was entirely on the recruitment of Haaland, who agreed personal terms with Manchester City in March before an agreement between all parties in mid-April.

Real Madrid had entered the fray long before that, but Manchester City won that battle after telling Haaland that "their possession-based system would lighten his physical burden".

Pep Guardiola and his team are so in love with the Norwegian, in fact, that it looks like they would love to do business with Dortmund again.

Gaughan add that Etihad sources 'do not rule out a significant investment in the central midfielder's next priority area. "So it's not a leap", therefore, "to suggest that they might pay attention to Jude Bellingham's performance for Dortmund on Wednesday".

Liverpool will be delighted.

NOT CHANGE If Liverpool or Manchester City wait long enough, they could get one of the Premier League's great midfielders. But that would probably require additional investment in their medical team as well.

N'Golo Kante is a bit of a tired boy, you know? The 31-year-old is currently sidelined with a hamstring injury, having suffered four separate issues which ruled him out of matches in 2021/22, as well as two bouts of coronavirus.

These issues are at the heart of Chelsea's reluctance to commit to a long-term contract for Kante, whose current deal expires at the end of this season. Two years plus the option of a third was not enough for the Frenchman.

It is in this impasse that potential suitors have emerged. German newspaper Bild doesn't go much further than reporting that "two unnamed English clubs, a Spanish club and a Bundesliga club" are interested.

So while Kante may be considering "even ending his career" at Stamford Bridge, his car has stopped at the speculation station and may be there for some time.