What grade would you give Chelsea’s 2017 summer transfer window?

Over three months of near constant transfer rumor mongering is now over and we get to take a brief break. (Here is the full record of all that in our transfer rumor tracker.) Probably at least 48 hours shall pass before the first transfer rumor for January drops — although we already heard of Chelsea wanting to make another pass at Ross “cold feet” Barkley in January, so there may not be any respite from the never-ending deluge of clickbait.

Chelsea came into the summer with the primary goal of improving squad depth. We mostly failed at that goal despite spending the second-most money of any Premier League team (almost £200m) though we also sold over £100m worth of players, and that’s not yet including Diego Costa who’s bound to fetch a pretty penny against all odds.

But despite that failure, Chelsea did sign several quality players while getting younger and possibly better man-for-man. There’s a glaring lack of depth behind Marcos Alonso at the moment (Kenedy is left wing-back only in name and Baba Rahman won’t be contributing anytime soon — any other option is a hope-for-the-best sort of scenario), but the team looks strong in midfield, in central defense, and in attack, with multiple options and tactical setups available to Conte.

PLAYERS IN:

1. Billy Gilmour, 16, £500k (+bonuses) from Rangers
2. Daishawn Redan, 16, free (?) from Ajax
3. Ethan Ampadu, 16, £2m (?) from Exeter City
4. Willy Caballero, 35, free
5. Antonio Rüdiger, 24, €35+4m from AS Roma
6. Tiemoué Bakayoko, 22, €42+3m from AS Monaco
7. Álvaro Morata, 24, £58+12m from Real Madrid
8. Kylian Hazard, 23, £135k (?) from Újpest
9. Davide Zappacosta, 25, €28+2m from Torino FC
10. Danny Drinkwater, 27, £35m from Leicester City

PLAYERS OUT (so far — a few windows, including the Spanish one, are open until Friday midnight):

1. Nemanja Matić, 29, £35+5m to Manchester United
2. Mukhtar Ali, 20, free? to Vitesse
3. Nathaniel Chalobah, 22, £5-6m (+buyback?) to Watford
4. Nathan Aké, 22, £20m to AFC Bournemouth
5. Bertrand Traoré, 21, €10m (+bonuses/buyback?) to Lyon
6. Alex Kiwomya, 21, free to Doncaster Rovers
7. Dominic Solanke, 19, tribunal to decide fee (£3-10m?) to Liverpool
8. Asmir Begović, 29, £10m to AFC Bournemouth
9. Christian Atsu, 25, £6.2m to Newcastle United
10. Juan Cuadrado, 29, €20m buy-option (+€5m loan fee) to Juventus
11. John Terry, 36, released
12. Alex Davey, 22, released

2017-18 Loan Army (so far)

1. Fikayo Tomori, 19, loan to Hull City
2. Nathan, 21, loan to Amiens SC
3. Charlie Wakefield, 19, loan to Stevenage
4. Cristián Cuevas, 22, loan to FC Twente
5. Jordan Houghton, 21, loan to Doncaster Rovers
6. Jeremie Boga, 20, loan to Birmingham City
7. Kenneth Omeruo, 23, loan to Kasımpaşa
8. Lewis Baker, 22, loan to Middlesbrough
9. Mario Pašalić, 22, loan to Spartak Moscow
10. Victorien Angban, 20, loan to Waasland-Beveren
11. Matt Miazga, 22, loan to Vitesse
12. Jared Thompson, 18, loan to Chippenham Town
13. Jamal Blackman, 23, loan to Sheffield United
14. Michael Hector, 25, loan to Hull City
15. Tomáš Kalas, 24, loan to Fulham
16. Izzy Brown, 20, loan to Brighton & Hove Albion
17. Mason Mount, 18, loan to Vitesse
18. Kurt Zouma, 22, loan to Stoke City
19. Jay Dasilva, 19, loan to Charlton Athletic
20. Ike Ugbo, 18, loan to Barnsley
21. Marco van Ginkel, 24, loan to PSV
22. Lucas Piazon, 23, loan to Fulham
23. Ruben Loftus-Cheek, 21, loan to Crystal Palace
24. Ola Aina, 20, loan to Hull City
25. Brad Collins, 20, loan to Forest Green Rovers
26. Charlie Colkett, 20, loan to Vitesse
27. Josimar Quintero, 20, loan to FC Rostov
28. Todd Kane, 23, loan to FC Groningen
29. Kasey Palmer, 20, loan to Huddersfield Town
30. Tammy Abraham, 19, loan to Swansea City
31. Fankaty Dabo, 21, loan to Vitesse
32. Nathan Baxter, 18, loan to Woking FC
33. Danilo Pantić, 20, loan to Partizan Belgrade