When Chelsea made an offer of £55m for Sevilla centre back Jules Kounde there was every confidence that not only would the deal progress, but it would go on to be a successful purchase.
As with Todd Boehly's decision to sanction spending more than £75m on Raheem Sterling and Kalidou Koulibaly, the filters for Thomas Tuchel's wishlist have been set to 'quality first team additions that immediately improve the team.'
The time for risky deals or ones pushed by emotion has gone, Tuchel is into his Chelsea rebuild and the signing of Kounde would be a good way to push his current side on.
