5 players Chelsea should have kept

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Antonio Conte would have loved to have one of the five players at his disposal

#1 Kevin De Bruyne

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A young De Bruyne at Chelsea

Can a midfield get any better with Eden Hazard and Mohamed Salah on two opposite flanks? Well, it can. With Kevin De Bruyne- perhaps the best playmaker in the world right now, playing in the centre, that midfield would be enough to strike fear into any defence in the world.

But alas it was not to be. He was not on the best of terms with the then manager Jose Mourinho, and he was sold to Wolfsburg for £18m, which looked like a good deal then, though not so now.

Chelsea would be ruining that transfer more so today as while Chelsea failed to breach the West Ham defence, it was De Bruyne's trickery in a Manchester City shirt that enabled them to keep their record winning run intact last week

Oh, what might have been..!

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