If you want to suffocate a team that likes to play on the break as much as Chelsea do, why play an out and out creative central mid with little defensive discipline like Veratti over a calmer, steady presence like Cabaye? Also, Maxwell was always going to have fits with the speed and interchange of William and Oscar, which was only compounded when the much faster Scheurle came on for Hazard.

So Blanc is likely gone and I think Wenger will only be too happy to listen to their offer if they still want him.