Chelsea signs Alonso. Great get for the Blues. Big, somewhat fast left footed, left back. Best they could get.......at this point, probably. Didn't overpay. Nice.
Check 1 of 2 off the list.
Now let's go get a serviceable CB. And I can't believe Side-Show Bob may be in the discussion. I never thought I'd be happy to see him back in London, but if he's available for under 40M and everyone else with a pulse costs 55-60M, then.....................SIGN ME UP for another 3 years of the one and only David Luiz.
Chelsea has one more year of treading Cahill/Terry water until they can bank on Zouma and Christensen to core their back line. Honestly, I could see a little Luiz back there as well.
Side Show Bob it is! Unbelievable how that came together. Will be interesting what they do with Alonso... can play LB, but also known to play higher up in a midfield role with a nose for helping in attack. If he goes to LB, I'm assuming Azpi goes over to his natural RB and Ivanovic rides some pine...
I'm really surprised that more players weren't moved along... Cuadrado was guaranteed to go back, but now they seem to have a ridiculous amount of players in the MF - Pedro, Matic, Cesc, Mikel, Moses, and Oscar to go with the normal starters in Kante, Hazard and Willian and youngster RLC. Honestly kind of a weird collection of players.