Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel has confessed that the membership may not reignite their interest in Sevilla centre-back Jules Kounde after looking Trevoh Chalobah emerge into a true first-team player.
The Blues had been hot on Kounde's tail in the summer time and was hoping to bring the Frenchman in for around £50m, handiest for Sevilla to knock them returned and call for closer to the £70m mark.
Chelsea declined to pay up and as a substitute chose to position their religion in Chalobah, and the 22-12 months-vintage academy graduate has now not disenchanted. He has made ten appearances in all competitions and has looked completely at home in Tuchel's returned three, incomes himself a brand new settlement this week.
Having stumbled throughout the new centre-again he became searching out, Tuchel admitted that Kounde might also now not be a concern for Chelsea.
"I assume every transfer duration you want to evaluate again," Tuchel said in his pre-healthy press conference beforehand of going through Burnley on Saturday. "You can not say what we desired inside the summer time, we do inside the winter. And what we want to do in winter, we want to do the subsequent summer time. It is not like this.
"Your opinion adjustments, players exchange, you've got evolvement within the group, you have an surroundings which you construct, you see who's clearly reliable and those connections increase and create some thing unique with a bit of luck within the organization.
"So you can't say what we tried inside the summer time did now not happen so we can try once more for certain inside the wintry weather. Sometimes it's miles like this. If we see the identical need, but surely, Trevoh is now right here with us and he deserves to be right here with us. It had nothing to do with if we are able to signal some other central defender or no longer. But he stepped up.
"The obligation was even extra on his shoulders and he can handle it to this point in a very amazing way. This is the scenario and it has an effect on our subsequent choices in the next switch duration. It is continually like this."
Those in rate at Stamford Bridge continue to be eager on Kounde and can well turn to the Frenchman within the future, in particular with so lots of Chelsea's beginning centre-backs going for walks out of time on their contracts.
Antonio Rudiger is a long way faraway from signing an extension, while Andreas Christensen, Cesar Azpilicueta and Thiago Silva are all coming near the final six months of their contracts and there are various levels of optimism approximately extensions.
