Unlike many clubs, the Stamford Bridge store remained closed for business on transfer deadline day, with no major incomings or outgoings by Chelsea.
It has been a quiet window for the West London club, with loan moves for some younger fringe players the extent of their activity apart from the capture of a young left-back from West Brom who is one for the future.
That means that internal solutions will need to be found for the shortfalls in their squad at full-back caused by injury, whilst fringe players like Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Ross Barkley and Saúl Ňiguez will return at Stamford Bridge for the rest of the campaign.
And the contractual situation of three senior defenders – César Azpilicueta, Andreas Christensen, and Antonio Rüdiger – is unresolved heading into the final months of the campaign.
January may have been quiet, but, with so much to do, the summer promises to be anything but.
