It usually takes a long time for a transfer to come to fruition, with a lot of the donkey work done during the tail end of the season. It was predictable that this transfer window was going to be a struggle, with Chelsea playing catch up due to the when the takeover went through; on top of all the extra work associated with the takeover.
Without the prior preparation it was always going to have the feeling of a mad scramble to get people in, particularly so when you consider that issue we had with potentially four defenders leaving in the summer.
