Gittens and the Art of Coaching

What does Chelsea's transfer policy say about their grasp of team-building? And why has trying to hone a player to fit a system becomes so unfashionable?

Last Saturday, Jamie Gittens signed for Chelsea on a seven-year contract for a fee of £48.5m. Which is one of those deals that on the one hand makes a lot of sense – Chelsea, for all their recent expenditure on forwards, somehow do find themselves short in that area – and yet on the other feels vaguely grotesque: how can they possibly be signing another…