There are a few transfer situations that are far from over yet, but you’d be forgiven for thinking that they are.
It’s been a confusing summer so far in the transfer market purely because of the transfer window pointlessly being split in two.
The first window was open for just 10 days, closed for 6, and is now open again until September the 1st. So clubs can now go ahead and buy and sell players once again.
But what it did was it made clubs become very tough with their players and refused to sell them for lower prices because they knew they had strength in negotiations with buying clubs trying to get the players in for the Club World Cup. It wasn’t a smart idea to do these two windows really. But it’s open properly now and expect some business and a long old summer of speculation and drama!
Chelsea want a number of new positions in the door still, and one of those is centre back.
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