As Chelsea's defensive targets vary from world beaters to relative unknown quantities and the progress being made to sign new reinforcements continues to be slow, the Blues have been offered reasons behind their transfer window misses this summer.
With Jules Kounde taking up over one-year of attention Chelsea made late reservations regarding the player, Matthijs de Ligt preferring Germany for his next move, Presnel Kimpembe being settled in France and Wesley Fofana an expensive addition for a 21-year-old, Todd Boehly is scanning the European football market for alternative options.
Be it Benjamin Pavard or Denzel Dumfries, the shortlist has been anything but short with new links cropping up each day and football.london understanding that links for Bayern Munich's versatile Frenchman being concrete, it is still set to be an entertaining end to the window for Chelsea.
