Just over 15 months ago, Chelsea made a transfer decision that they would regret. It wasn't Todd Boehly, the Roman Abramovich administration was in charge, but the choice still stands and looks worse as time goes on.
With Thomas Tuchel desperate to sign a new midfielder given the fitness issues for N'Golo Kante and the only other senior options being Jorginho and Mateo Kovacic, Chelsea left it late to do their business. At that stage they hadn't signed a midfielder on a permanent deal since 2019. They still haven't now.
It was during last summer that the Blues had the chance to bring in Monaco starlet Aurelien Tchouameni, but they were not set on his readiness for first team football. Twelve months later and the Frenchman joined Real Madrid in a massive £80million move. Several months on and he scored against England in the World Cup.
