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Chelsea are the masters of portfolio management
The transfer window has left Ed Warner’s head in a spin and even the most devoted football nut must have struggled to keep up, he writes.The football transfer window closed on Tuesday night, with over £3bn splashed out by Premier League clubs for the second summer running. In the end, Everton didn’t sell their home-grown midfielder Harrison Armstrong, Nottingham Forest having reportedly bid £40m for the 19-year-old. And Richarlison, formerly of Everton, finds himself still at the Tottenham Stadium, although it probably needs another Instagram post to establish whether he’s happy to be there or would rather be somewhere else.
