Thought an offer from Madrid is something no player turns down?
I mean I could be wrong and he might be desperate to join them. I'm essentially just parroting what the Chelsea journos have been telling us in the last couple of weeks. Real Madrid have been interested in him since last summer. According to reports, he's very settled at Chelsea and in London. The sticky point was always the money and last year him and the club were quite far apart in the numbers each side would accept, but again, it sounds like both Rudiger and club were at a much happier number around the time the sanctions hit.