Chelsea must regret selling “all the time big”

Chelsea He had another hectic transfer in January, but instead of a lot of infections, he was very focused on leaving, with the sale of Cesare Casadei, and six players were borrowed, with Axel Disasi, João Félix, Renato Veiga, Carney Chukwuemeka, Ben Chillwell and Caleb Wiley Everyone moves through the door.

The Blues have spent greatly in the past, but to do so, they have always been relatively good at drawing good fees for their players, whether these are products for young academies, top talents who have just overturned their premiere, or even players who are fought for form.

Chelsea has the highest net consumption in the last five seasons, with -924,86 € ( -£ 773,8m)Making great sales to fund their team’s renovation, signing the most talented young people from all over the world, wanting to start their new era.

But as we mentioned, this is not necessarily a new thing, because Chelsea has always been good at timely sale to reinstate his funds. However, of course, there is an unusual mistake of selling someone to become a worldwide blow, and there are several examples of the Southwest London Club.

Chelsea’s biggest mistake when selling players

One of Chelsea’s biggest mistakes was the release of Kevin de Bruyne to go to join Wolfsburg in Germany in 2014 after signed by Belgian of Genko 2012. The reported fee for which it was sold was About £ 16.7 millionafter only making nine appearances for the blues.

However, only 18 months later, Manchester City then bought de Bruyne at a fee About £ 54.5 millionbecoming the second highest fee paid by the British club at the time. The 33-year-old won six Premier League titles, Taking 406 appearancesHilling 104 goals, providing 173 assists and a total of 30.006 minutes played.

Another player who sold Blues in 2018 with a fee About £ 35mHe was Thibaut Courtois, who joined Real Madrid that summer. Belgian shooter Made 154 appearances for Chelsearetaining 58 clean leaves and receiving 152 targets.

The 32-year-old has become one of the best goalkeepers in the world, while Chelsea is fighting to decide on his number one, and Robert Sanchez is currently in the form of mistakes and many other young options are still fully proven.

Chelsea’s biggest misconception made

There is another sale that could be the worst in their history, which arrived in 2016 because Blues released a player at a fee about £ 15 millionwho then returned to persecute them in the Premier League since 2017 onwards.

This is, of course, Mohamed Salah who in 2014 joined Chelsea from Basel for a Fee of around £ 11 millioncontinuing Make only 19 appearances for bluesAchieving two goals, providing three assists and a total of 882 minutes. Due to the lack of playing time, the Egyptian embarked on a few loans in Serie A, before going on a permanent contract in Roma in 2016.

But similar to De Bruyne case, just one year after Chelsea left on a permanent agreement, Liverpool decided to sneak, finishing Signing £ £ 34.3 million of Salah. The rest is history as the Egyptian continued Make 382 appearances for redscoring 236 goals and providing 105 assists, becoming a legend of the Premier League.

When comparing Salah to Chelsea’s two right-wing opportunities this season, Noni Madueka and Pedro Net, you can see the 32-year-old, not surprising, simply at the second level, double their goal and help out of the way out, having the best goals/shooting ratio, still creating the most creative actions with key passages and actions of creation, while the main goalkeeper for his side.

Even in several areas that Salah does not rank on top, such as progressive brackets (on top of the Madueka), a shot of 90 (at the top of Madueka) and successful download (at the top of both Chelsea wings), margins are extremely close, while many areas are dominated by Salah, He is clean of the others.

The decision to sell it consists of the fact that Salah surpasses every single Chelsea player this season, even Cole Palmer, who was a revelation for the blues.

Palmer has scored 39 goals in 71 appearances Ever since he joined Chelsea in 2023. During the same time frame, Salah scored 50 goals in 77 tripsCurrently leading the Premier League for Goals and Assistments During 2024/25.

His former coach-Liverpool, Jürgen Klopp, marked Salah “”Great all the time“When praising him”Absolutely exceptional“The goal was also appointed by one of the best players he had ever trained. Spon Klopp’s big attack by Liverpool, including Salah, planted Mané and Roberto Firmino, could have been very different that Blues would never have released an Egyptian international.

With Enzo Maresca in Chelsea, the wings are very important roles, wanting to help the team defend themselves in deeper areas, allowing Fullbacks to change more centrally, but then they have to stretch the terrain high and wide when they are on the ball, looking isolate feedback in the scripts 1V1 and provide goals and assists for the team.

Madueke showed that he had the ability to score goals for Chelsea from wide areas, coming to the frame on time, but Salah obviously became a master of g/a (goals + assist) from wide areas, which ultimately raises the question as to be different things if he stayed on Stamford Bridge.