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Chelsea boss Conte: Transfer market gone CRAZY!

Chelsea boss Antonio Conte admits he's frustrated with this summer's "crazy" transfer market.

Chelsea have spent £64m on Michy Batshuayi and N'Golo Kante so far, but are finding it difficult to secure deals for Alvaro Morata, Romelu Lukaku and Kalidou Koulibaly.

Speaking at Chelsea's pre-season training base at UCLA today, Conte said: “This season we are seeing a crazy market. It's incredible.

"When you touch a player it's very difficult because you must pay a lot of money. I don't know if this situation can continue.

"It's very difficult for all the teams to try and buy the players. Now, we are starting to speak about £100m, £120m, £95m, and these prices are incredible.

"But this is football now. It's important that we must maintain the passion. This is the most important thing, to transfer our passion and transfer it to fans and players."

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