While clubs have wheeled and dealed throughout June and business has been completed and even announced, some transfers have been more done than others. Put simply, the transfer window has not been officially open for all deals, and while clubs can come to their agreements, a vast array of players will not have been able to be officially be registered until today, July 1.
Chelsea have seen a number of players depart the club already this summer. Mateo Kovacic and Kai Havertz have headed to Manchester City and Arsenal respectively, while Edouard Mendy and Kalidou Koulibaly have completed moves to the Saudi Pro League. N'Golo Kante has already been officially confirmed as an Al-Ittihad player, and will also see July 1 as his official start date.
For Premier League sides, the transfer window opened on June 14. However, from that moment only dealings for players from the Premier League, English Football League and the Scottish divisions would be able to be registered immediately. As a result, the process of confirming deals for Kovacic and Havertz would have come with no issues or boxes left to tick.
