Chelsea's bid for Real Madrid's Spain striker Alavaro Morata, 23, has been rejected as the La Liga giants hold out for £64m.(Mail on Sunday)
If true we may as well forget Morata as a transfer target as there's no way AW is spending that sort of money on anyone who is not named Messi or Ronaldo.
I suspect that the search for a replacement starting CF is once again the annual summer wait for a bargain opportunity.