The summer transfer window of 2017 remains the most infamous of the Roman Abramovich era. It's not only the deals that Chelsea completed – Alvaro Morata, Tiemoue Bakayoko, Danny Drinkwater and Davide Zappacosta to name four – but it's also because of the moves the Blues failed to get over the line.
Fernando Llorente and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain were wanted by Antonio Conte during the window. Neither arrived. The big one, however, was Romelu Lukaku, who spurned Chelsea's advances in favour of joining Manchester United from Everton.
It's often forgotten that the Blues also failed in their attempts to bring in a midfielder from the Toffees, that a £35million deadline day deal collapsed in the final hours of the window.
