Chelsea’s top five transfer targets vs youngsters they could promote instead, including in-form Mohamed Salah

5) Raphael Varane vs Nathaniel Chalobah

Chelsea are prioritising a move for promising young Real Madrid centre-back Raphael Varane this summer, according to the Daily Mirror. Again, the Frenchman is sure to prove expensive even if he is a big talent, and is he even likely to get past John Terry, Gary Cahill and Kurt Zouma into the starting eleven anytime soon? Chelsea should save themselves some serious money and look instead to 20-year-old defender Nathaniel Chalobah, who has long been talked about as a top talent and who has impressed in several loan spells – surely good enough to be a backup for the Blues?