Batshuayi, centre, is one of just two summer arrivals at Stamford Bridge

Antonio Conte has expressed his frustration about Chelsea’s lack of transfer activity. The Italian is understood to have told the club hierarchy that he is unhappy that only two players have been added to the squad this summer.

After finishing tenth in last season’s Premier League, only N’Golo Kanté and Michy Batshuayi have joined the club. Conte sounded sanguine on the subject of transfers when facing the media yesterday before Monday’s first game of the new campaign, against West Ham United, but has been far less stoical in private.

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He is believed to have made his feelings known in talks with Michael Emenalo, the technical director, who, along with director Marina Granovskaia, is in charge