As you would expect at this time of the year, transfers were on the agenda. So we did our best to extract as much information as we could out of the head coach to determine where the club is exactly during their latest recruitment drive.
He’s a round-up of what he said as the Blues enter the second week of the transfer window.
17. The impact of the Euros
Mousinho said: ‘The better players are waiting to make decisions. That’s absolutely fine and probably why it’s been a bit of a slower market this year combined with the Euros. That seems to delay things, because there’s a knock-on effect from what Premier League clubs are willing to do with players reporting back later. All of those factors means it may be a bit slower than it was last year.’
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