The signing of a central defender depends on exits and the club have to fund the purchase of a striker and a right-footed winger too. There are two questions to answer on the issue: why Chelsea are pursuing another player in this position at all and what are the ramifications for those centre-backs at the club?

Matt Law dropped an in depth look at Chelsea’s interest in Dean Huijsen yesterday for the Daily Telegraph, with plenty of insight on the progression of the deal and on why Enzo Maresca and the club

Arsenal, Liverpool and Real Madrid have all expressed an interest in Huijsen but it is Chelsea, who perhaps surprisingly, lead the race, according to the Independent. The Blues are prepared to offer the player a seven-year deal to which Huijsen is said to be ‘giving serious consideration to’.