Arsenal, Man Utd and even Man City send Tottenham warning over Timo Werner transfer
Chelsea have sold a wealth of talent in the last few years. they have had to, to make up for the heavily publicised £1billion spend under owner Todd Boehly.
Numerous players have left Stamford Bridge, to be replaced by young, prodigious stars on long contracts, of whom much is expected in the coming years. Things are not quite gelling for them in west London as yet, but Mauricio Pochettino will hope to have the Blues flying before the end of this season to make their mark in the Premier League next year.
The Blues could still walk away with silverware this year, with a Carabao Cup semi-final first leg against Middlesbrough to look forward to this week and the FA Cup fourth round draw to come on Monday after a 4-0 win over Championship side Preston North End on Saturday.
Twenty-five what you can deem first-team players have left Chelsea in the last two seasons, but how many of them have actually gone on to be transfer mistakes? The Blues would argue none of them.
Let's take a look at the high-profile, money-making ones. Kai Havertz left for Arsenal for £65million in the summer and has hardly set the world alight. Mason Mount has struggled to tie down a regular starting spot at a struggling Manchester United under Erik ten Hag this season. Mateo Kovacic has played just 765 Premier League minutes at Manchester City.
Kepa Arrizabalaga has done reasonably well at Real Madrid, while Romelu Lukaku apears to have settled well at Roma with plenty of goals to his name. But do Chelsea really rue letting them go out on loan? Probably not.
In 2022/23, Chelsea let Timo Werner, Emerson Palmieri, Jorginho — also to Arsenal — and Billy Gilmour leave, as well as a number of free transfers like Antonio Rudiger, Andreas Christensen and Marcos
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