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Chelsea loved a extremely busy and productive summer season switch window as they made a bunch of adjustments on the membership.
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There have been a lot of incomings and outgoings that befell at Stamford Bridge. For example, the Blues introduced within the likes of Joao Pedro and Liam Delap, amongst others and offloaded a lot of surplus gamers from the squad.
Nevertheless, former Liverpool star Jermaine Pennant believes that the membership missed out on a trick by not making a transfer for Crystal Palace’s Marc Guehi in the course of the summer season switch window.
Chelsea are in determined want of an skilled central defender, and this want is accentuated by the harm to Levi Colwill, who has been dominated out for almost all of the season.
Nevertheless, the Blues determined to not make a transfer for a brand new central defender as they imagine that they’ll fill the void left by the defender’s absence with somebody from the present squad.
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However the transfer has not gone down nicely with Pennant, who has slammed the crew for not making an attempt to signal an skilled central defender.
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Jermaine Pennant slams Chelsea for not making Marc Guehi transfer
Chelsea have been additionally linked with Marc Guehi, however didn’t make a swoop for him. Pennant has now described the membership’s choice to not bid for the Crystal Palace captain as “completely crackers”.
Marc Guehi
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Talking on , he stated, “That one is completely crackers, that, to not go for Guehi while you lose your primary centre-back — out for the season — and also you’ve obtained Guehi…, 40 million, simply to verify the deal’s executed.”
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Given his age and expertise, Guehi would have been a welcome addition to the Chelsea backline, as he would have been capable of lead the Blues’ backline.
On condition that the English worldwide is within the last yr of his contract at Palace, there’s nonetheless a risk that Chelsea makes a transfer for him within the January switch window. Nevertheless, Chelsea might need to combat off curiosity from the likes of Liverpool for the participant.
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