Chelsea will likely be busy again in the January transfer window after a chaotic summer period that saw an estimated £250m spent by the club's new owners who had only taken over in early June.
Despite vast excitement and intrigue at the time, Chelsea's start to the campaign could not have gone much worse. Within seven games there was a change in head coach and even after a short burst, Graham Potter goes into the World Cup break with three successive Premier League defeats.
The mood is bad and the outlook is bleak. The six-week break for Qatar will naturally turn attention to the January window and what can be done to potentially salvage a campaign that is fastly going wrong.
