Chelsea completed Mauricio Pochettino transfer dream amid crazy deadline day move

 Chelsea transfer news as the January window closes and football.london gives a closing statement on the work done

Chelsea, just about, deserve a round of applause? Not for the questionable deadline day departure of Armando Broja, certainly, because we'll get onto that, but for holding themselves back. 

 After signing eight players last year, breaking the then British transfer record, things haven't gone to play. The summer spend is yet to be fully justified - though that will only come with time as players settle and develop. It would have been easy for a recruitment team that is new and yet to get any reward for their work, to go, and go harder.

 When Karim Benzema is dangled teasingly in front of you, it's hard to say no. But for now Chelsea have resisted. Their urge to try and turn things around this month must have been pretty large. Talk of new strikers was at an all-time high. Ivan Toney, Victor Osimhen, for a while Viktor Gyokeres, and then even Jhon Duran. There was a period where briefings put across that a new goalkeeper, left-back, centre-midfielder, winger, and forward were all being eyed