Unexpectedly, Chelsea's pre-season turned rather sour after Raheem Sterling and Kalidou Koulibaly joined the club.
Not because both have signed but more to do with the fact of what's happened next after the pair arrived in the States and into Thomas Tuchel's squad. The German has aimed for a host of signings this summer in a £200million rebuild but with under two weeks until the Premier League season opener against Everton, the squad is certainly not in a ready state.
Something the manager confirmed after the Arsenal defeat on the weekend. He said: "I can not guarantee. I saw today a team in Arsenal who are mentally committed to an idea of playing, a level of exhaustion, a level of physical commitment that we could not match.
