Antoine Griezmann has actually gone to the trouble of denying he was taking charge of Chelsea while playing Football Manager. The Atletico Madrid striker made some headlines this week while travelling with the French national team.
Footage from the FFF YouTube channel showed Griezmann enjoying a game Football Manager, with Chelsea appearing on the screen.
We, along with many others, assumed that meant he was Chelsea manager - while some bizarrely reported that this was an indication he would join the English club.
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But Griezmann wants to make it clear that he wasn't doing Antonio Conte's job and taking charge of the Stamford Bridge outfit on the computer game.
Instead, he was managing Lyon - as he confirmed in another one YouTube video today:
That video is in French and subtitles fail to translate Griezmann's comments, but French sports journalist Francois Piraux has offered one:
And if you grab Griezmann pointing to his screen and zoom in, you can just about make out the Lyon badge at the top:
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So, that's that then. Griezmann isn't playing with Chelsea in Football Manager.
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