Happy Mutu day, Chelsea. But where have all the gifts gone 20 years on?

Chelsea's Mykhailo Mudryk is hardly an insoluble problem. All he needs is a stable base, a coherent existing structure and time to learn. Photograph: Carl Recine/Reuters

It was twenty years ago today. Or close enough, at least, to make for a startling sense of circularity.

As Chelsea travel to Bournemouth on Sunday in search of their first away win since March (also, by coincidence, at Bournemouth) there might just be a spare moment in the day to celebrate an overlooked anniversary, two decades on from the most violently transformative summer in the modern history of English football.