Blow For Chelsea As Antonio Conte Grows Increasingly Frustrated After Lukaku Transfer Failure

Jul 8, 2017 at 10:34 AM

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Blow For Chelsea As Antonio Conte Grows Increasingly Frustrated After Lukaku Transfer Failure

Chelsea were easily the best club in the country in the previous season as they managed to put in some strong and consistent performances, to help their side to their sixth league title in their history.

It was their second league title in three years, as Antonio Conte became the first manager to win the league in his first year in the country.

The Blues have a solid squad at their disposal but if they are to compete at the highest level, they will need to add some quality to their first team this summer.


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Conte is desperately looking for players who can walk into the first team next season but the Blues are yet to make a stellar addition to their attack.

Costa – Lukaku row

And it is now understood that the manager is frustrated with the lack of business at the Stamford Bridge, having previously been linked with an exit from the club after the end of the previous season.

The Italian manager decided to get rid of Diego Costa, who is expected to join Atletico Madrid this summer.

The Spaniard was expected to fetch an insane price in the transfer market but his row with the manager meant that he had to be sold off on the cheap this summer.

As if that was not enough, Chelsea have now lost their top transfer target to Manchester United recently.

Conte was desperate to replace Costa with Belgian star Romelu Lukaku, with Everton ready to offload him this summer.

Reports claimed that Lukaku was close to a move to Chelsea but he ended up completing his medical with Manchester United, completing a £75m move earlier this week.

And it is now understood that Conte is absolutely ‘fuming’ with the club hierarchy, having missed out on their top transfer target to their English rivals.


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Transfer window crisis

A report from the Mirror goes on to claim that the lack of progress in deals for other transfer targets is now making Conte unsettled and that he might yet again look for an exit.

The Blues were reportedly close to signing Juventus star Alex Sandro and AS Monaco beast Tiemoue Bakayoko but neither player is yet to complete his switch to the Bridge, making Conte anxious.

Alexis Sanchez from Arsenal and Andrea Belotti from Torino are other options in attack that could be hard to lure this summer while Alvaro Morata and Fernando Llorente will not be at the top of the wishlist for the English side.

Do you think Chelsea can keep Conte at the club for long?

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