"If I Had to Leave I Would Almost Certainly Go to London - Alvaro Moratta

Real Madrid striker, Alvaro Morata reveals he probably would have moved to Chelsea last summer had Real Madrid decided to sell him. The striker was contacted directly by Antonio Conte when he became Chelsea boss and was open to a transfer to the club. Morata was in limbo during the summer as Real weighed up cashing in on the 24-year-old or handing him a regular role.

Conte was eager to bring Morata to Chelsea and the Spain international reveals if he was to move it would have been to a London club.

‘Various Premier League coaches called to tell me to play for them,’ Morata told the Guardian.

‘I said yeah, I’d like to, that if I had to leave I would almost certainly go to London, but that I didn’t know what Madrid would do.

‘I knew they’d bring me back but I didn’t know if it was to keep me or sell me.

‘I spoke directly to Mauricio Pochettino and Antonio Conte, although the norm is clubs call my dad or agent.

‘Madrid said they didn’t want to sell, so here I am.’

Madrid bought Morata back from Juventus at the end of last season and the attacker has done well since returning to the club he spent his entire career at before moving to Italy.

Source / credit: metro