Chelsea
have made a £43m bid for Ajax midfielder Edson Alvarez.
The club still want to sign a forward and midfielder before the transfer
window closes.
Thomas Tuchel has already spent £268m this summer on players, including
Wesley Fofana, Marc Cucurella, Raheem Sterling and Kalidou Koulibaly.
But the Chelsea boss criticised his players for "not being tough enough" in
Tuesday's 2-1 defeat at Southampton as he tore into them for their "soft
defending" at St Mary's.
He may, though, have a task on his hands in getting Alvarez from Ajax
following a mass exodus of star players from the Dutch club this summer.
Noussair Mazraoui, Ryan Gravenberch, Lisandro Martinez and Sebastien Haller
have already left this summer, with Antony set to finalise his move to
Manchester United this week.
The Dutch champions are projected to make in the region of £180m from sales
in this window, and are under no pressure to allow Mexico international
Alvarez to leave.
The transfer window in the Netherlands also shuts 24 hours earlier than most
of Europe this summer due to an administrative error made by the nation's
football governing body, KNVB.
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