We’ve just covered a story about Wesley Fofana and Chelsea’s desire to sell him this summer, covering rumours that originated with Spanish football website Fichajes.
Now they’re not the best source, but the list they put together of players the Blues could sell is pretty eye opening as a reminder of how many assets there are to be moved on this summer.
We don’t agree with all of these: there’s simply no way we’re selling Andrey Santos, Mike Penders, Reece James or Robert Sanchez this summer – but the rest are all pretty realistic. Some area almost certain. It’s a reminder of just how much cash could be raised just with some smart and decisive moves in the market.
“Players like Mykhailo Mudryk, Christopher Nkunku, Robert Sanchez, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, Ben Chilwell, Marc Guiu, David Fofana, Reece James, Axel Disasi, Andrey Santos, João Félix, Lesley Ugochukwu, Carney Chukwuemeka, Raheem Sterling, Armando Broja, Kepa Arrizabalaga, Mike Penders, Deivid Washington, Caleb Wiley, Alfie Gilchrist, and Bashir Humphreys could be on the chopping block as well.”
That’s quite a list. The reality is that most will be sold for for a loss, but there’s still enough quality in there to raise something in the order of hundreds of millions of Euros if our sporting directors get their act together. The €500m mentioned in the article might be ambitious, but it’s not too far off.
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A lot of our summer action will depend on whether we make it into the top 5 places in the league – something that looks a lot less likely after this weekend’s results.
If we sell off 10 of these players and use the funds to sign 2 really good players who instantly improve the first team, we will be looking in much better shape for next season.
Regarding the changing personnel at Chelsea, the best thing that could happen is that the 2 Sporting directors and the manager get replaced.
The manager because he’s one dimensional and hopes to bore the opposition team to sleep. The players are afraid to shoot at goal because they’ve been told that possession is everything.
The 2 SD’s because I’ve never known so much money being wasted on players who just aren’t good enough to get Chelsea where they want to be.
I’ve supported Chelsea since 1968 and have seen our bad squads, (due to having no money),and our good squads, (mainly due to having Roman),but this current squad have got no direction or belief due to the manager’s style of play.