New Twist In Chelsea Transfer Saga

Chelsea as in past years have become the central attention for all things transfers and this year’s summer window is nothing different.

Chelsea football club had what you can mildly call a horrible season by their standards. The former European champions and world champions came into the 2022/2023 season with trophy on their minds with ownership change after Roman Abrahmovic had to sell the club due to sanctions imposed on him. New owner did not waste time in spending the cash signing Sterling, Fofana, Cucurella and Koulibaly (who is already leaving but we will get to that later).

The bizarre sacking of fan favourite Thomas Tuchel showed times of an up and down season, but fans were beginning to get over the departure with popular and upcoming manager Graham Potter but unlike his namesake in JK Rowling bestseller Harry Potter, he was not going to have that fairytale happy ending, what seemed like a bright start to the tenure quickly turned sour with Chelsea languishing in midtable and in huge fear of getting relegated, in fact, the points secured ironically enough by Thomas Tuchel is what helped the blues avoid relegation because if they were on the same form from the very beginning Chelsea football club would have finished in the drop zone.

During the January window Chelsea spent a lot of money on signings which include world cup winner Enzo Fernandez, Mykalo Mudryk, Noni Madueke, Benoit Badliashile, Datro Fofana and Andrey Santos. With all the money spent and a now clustered locker room, Chelsea were in desperate need for a major clear out with rival fans laughing were they would find a way to perform what seemed impossible but that’s when Saudi Arabia came into the picture.

With high profile players like Ronaldo and Benzema making the switch to the holy land, it served as the perfect destination, days later after the Benzema deal was announced Chelsea owner was seen having a meeting with Saudi officials. Then it started, offers came in from left, right and centre for Chelsea deadwood, first, early in the month, Chelsea legend Kante already had agreement to join Al Ittihad, then in the space of a day Chelsea had agreed deals for Mendy, Ziyech and Koulibaly to also join Kante in the holy hand who will be joining Al Ahli, Al Nassar and Al Hilal respectively.

Meanwhile back in London, Chelsea were negotiating deals with current treble winners Manchester City about Mateo Kovacic who they just agreed a deal to for £25m with £5m in add ons. The Croatian is set to depart Chelsea after completing international club football by winning the Europa league, Champions league, Super cup and the Club world cup with the blue side of London.

Also, the man himself who scored the goal in the champions league final Kai Havertz is set to make a quite betrayal move by switching from the blue side to the red side of London with fees reported to be £65m. Kai Havertz has already agreed personal terms with Chelsea long standing rivals Arsenal and the two clubs are set to be finalising the final details before making the deal official.

Among those set or about to leave there are also a host of other players like Mason Mount who might be on his way to Manchester United, Lukaku who is asking for a loan return back to Inter Milan but Chelsea insist on selling the Belgian attacker, Callum Hudson-Odoi who has already been approached by two Saudi Arabia clubs, Aubamayang who was also approached by Saudi clubs but is still holding on a return to Barcelona and Lostuf-Cheek who was close to moving to AC Milan but talks have stalled since the Rossoneri’s sacked club legend Maldini.

Although the blues have secured highly rated French talent Christopher Nkunku, the blues have been focused more on the outgoings than incomings and there will be surely more to come as the weeks go by.

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