Sporting Lisbons remorseful Islam Slimani intent on wounding Chelsea | Dominic Fifield

The Algeria striker tried to force a move after the World Cup but the Portuguese club refused to cave in and he will offer a potent threat alongside Nani in Tuesdays Champions League match

Rojo joins Manchester United, Nani goes the other way

Sporting president attacks third-party ownership

Over at Sporting Lisbon the scenario felt depressingly familiar. Last season had yielded a fine second-place finish behind Benfica and qualification for the Champions League, only to give way to another unsettling summer as players were cherry-picked by richer rivals or threatened to be prised away.

Eric Dier left for Tottenham Hotspur, William Carvalho drew plenty of admiring glances, while Marcos Rojo agitated more shamelessly for a move to Manchester United. The Argentinians stance infuriated the clubs president, Bruno de Carvalho, yet where the defender was permitted to leave, another player was denied his departure. That dissident, reintegrated after all the discord and revived back in the side, is now intent on wounding Chelsea.

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