Never before has a club poached the winter transfer market in this way like Chelsea. The Blues spent 611.5 million euros on transfers this season, including around 330 million euros in January alone. An unprecedented spending spree.
However, even a club like Chelsea cannot completely detach itself from the mechanisms of the industry. Financial fair play may not be sufficiently enforced, but UEFA’s regulations cannot be completely ignored. The fact that Chelsea have to slim down their 33-strong squad is just as clear as the next shopping spree in the summer.
After the departure of European champion Jorginho (31) to Arsenal, the ‘Sun’ lists seven potential summer departures. There is the number two keeper Édouard Mendy (30), midfield star N’Golo Kanté (31), his English neighbors Conor Gallagher (22) and Ruben Loftus-Cheek (27) defenders Kalidou Coulibaly (31 ) and Marc Cucurella (24) as well as Fast PSG access Hakim Ziyech (29).
Backlog demand at Ziyech
The farewell to the latter in particular should be of great concern to all concerned, as Ziyech’s transfer to Paris fell through solely due to Chelsea’s inability to send the correct documents to the Ligue 1 champions. With clearer Kanté, on the other hand, everything seems to end in the end of the contract in the summer. FC Barcelona in particular has repeatedly been said to be interested in the French.
