Top Ten Best Completed Premier League Transfers of the Summer Window Thus Far

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Andre Schurrle – Bayer Leverkusen to Chelsea, £17 million

It would perhaps be a little unfair to label this transfer as a saga, seeing as everybody knew that it was going to happen, but when it finally did there was a palpable sense of relief.

Much of the anticipation hinged over where Chelsea’s Kevin de Bryune would end up with Bayer hoping to bring the young Belgian on board as part of the deal. That, however, didn’t happen, so they had to settle for a straight cash deal instead.

Schürrle had been on Chelsea’s radar for just over a year now and he became the first signing for Jose Mourinho since he arrived back at the club last month.

The German international was originally a part of the same Mainz side as Tottenham Hotspur’s Lewis Holtby before earning a move to Bayer Leverkusen in 2011, age 20.

An athletic forward, who is more comfortable on the left side of the attack, possesses a wealth of pace and skill – that will surely make him the scourge of Premier League right-backs this season. He has an ornate ability to dribble past defenders and finish with great aplomb, which has led him to score roughly one goal in three appearances in the Bundesliga.

He already has 24 caps for the German national team under his belt, with seven goals too and has firmly established himself a regular in the side, meaning that he will want to impress over the coming months to cement his place for Germany ahead of next summer’s World Cup.

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