Conte coy on Chelsea transfer plans

Antonio Conte has remained tight-lipped on the possibility of any major transfer action for Chelsea in the last few days of the January transfer window.

With his side winning 18 of their 22 games in the Premier League, Chelsea are eight points clear at the summit and Conte hasn’t felt the need to make any deals in January so far.

Goalkeeper Asmir Begovic is thought to be desired by Bournemouth but the Chelsea boss ruled out a move for the Bosnian unless a suitable replacement was found.

And Conte was happy that if no further details got done he could work with some of the young players currently at Stamford Bridge.

“I don’t know what will happen by the end of this window,” he said.

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“I have read a lot of good names in the newspaper. Sometimes you know more than me about this.

“The club knows my thoughts about the transfer window.

“If we stay with these players, I am very happy. We have to improve our squad in the numbers of the players, in some roles we only have a few.

“If it happens, I’m happy. If not, I’m happy the same. We continue this way and try to develop our young players like (Charly) Musonda, Kenedy and (Nathan) Ake.”