Chelsea have one of the slickest recruitment programmes in world football – but that doesn’t mean they haven’t made mistakes in the transfer market.
The club have been known to buy hordes of young players and, if they don’t quite make it into the first-team, Chelsea can sell them on for profit. While this has been beneficial in lots of cases, other players have arguably been sold too soon.
We’ve compiled an XI of players Chelsea have sold since 2013 that’d surely challenge for the Premier League title.
GK: Thibaut Courtois
Courtois was unsettled by the summer of 2018 and pushed for a move to Real Madrid after impressing at the World Cup with Belgium.
His relationship with the Chelsea fans soured after he refused to report for pre-season training and rejected an offer of talks with then-coach Maurizio Sarri.
Once at Madrid, he rubbed salt into the wounds by remarking on the difference in quality in training with his new team and expressing hope that Eden Hazard, Chelsea’s star player, would soon be there to join him.
Edouard Mendy has proved to be a fine replacement but Courtois remains one of the best goalkeepers in world football.
With Reece James ahead of him in the pecking order, Lampety made a £3million move to Brighton in January 2020.
His form at the start of the 2020-21 campaign may have caused Chelsea to reconsider their decision. Blessed with frightening pace, the diminutive full-back performed impressively before succumbing to a season-ending hamstring injury.
English football is hardly lacking in right-backs but Lamptey has the talent to become an England international in the future. Don’t rule out Chelsea buying him back at some point
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