Chelsea may have already felt the impact of recent boardroom departures on their transfer market activity after talks for a first new signing have slowed down.
The Blues are one of just two teams yet to make any incoming transfers in the Premier League and Thomas Tuchel has a rebuilding job to do after losing two of his key senior centrebacks, Antonio Rudiger and Andreas Christensen, for free this summer.
With the likely sale of one of Jorginho or N'Golo Kante, and the overhaul of the club's current attackers, there is plenty of work to be done at SW6. Matters have been complicated ever since Roman Abramovich was sanctioned by the UK government and his assets were frozen in March, including Chelsea, meaning that any early transfer activity was put on the backburner.
