After agreeing to sell Oscar to Shanghai SIPG on a club-record fee of reported £60m last week, the Blues are constantly being linked to new players Chelsea could replace the Brazilian with.
However, it’s not as simple as that according to Antonio Conte, as he’s suspicious over the availability of great players in the middle of the season.
Conte says he doesn’t like the idea of spending money just because there’s plenty of it, and is hoping to save it for the end of the season when the summer transfer window opens and more targets are on the look-in for a new challenge.
The Italian is also very happy with his current team after winning 12 Premier League games in a row and isn’t therefore desperate for changes, Metro quotes him saying.
In January it’s always very difficult to buy because I think that every team thinks to keep their best players and not to sell.
With the club, we are thinking the best way to face the rest of the season. For sure we are seeing our situation and our squad, and we take the best decision.
As I said before, it’s not easy the window in January.
He was also asked whether it’s hard for new signings to settle in an in-form side, and actually get to play if the first team keep performing as well as they’ve done for the first period of the campaign.
No I don’t think about this.
When you have a good group, a new player arrives in a simple and easy way.
We sold Oscar and we have money to spend but to spend money for money, I don’t like this.
Chelsea will be playing Stoke City tomorrow afternoon at Stamford Bridge, hoping to make it 13 wins on the bounce.
