There may be more adjustments made to Chelsea's roster at the start of the 2023–24 season. Since Todd Boehly's £4.25 billion takeover in 2022, the Blues have been one of the busiest clubs in the preceding two transfer windows.
After a £280 million revamp of the team in the summer, £320 million was spent on transfers. Graham Potter's team has a balance of youth and experience, and on deadline day, the team broke its own club record by signing Enzo Fernandez.
Throughout the month of January, seven new players arrived in an effort to save the west Londoners' season. Chelsea is now ten points outside of the UEFA Champions League spots and occupies the ninth spot in the Premier League standings.
As it happens with the challenge of keeping a large squad happy, the constant revolving door of incomings means players will have to be sold to trim the squad and to comply with Financial Fair Play regulations. With not much time passed since the January window slammed shut, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Christian Pulisic have been linked with moves away. But more players are set to face the chop in the summer.
According to ESPN, the Blues are set to cut ties with a number of players at the end of the season. Many of the players that have been named are either completely out of favour or entering the final year of their contracts at SW6.
Pulisic, Aubameyang, Mason Mount and Mateo Kovacic, who all see their current deals expire in 2024, have been named in the report on the list to have their future considered. The latter two are regulars under Potter this season but contract negotiations have stalled in recent weeks.
football.london understands that Mount's future will be considered once negotiations over a new deal are ironed out. The playmaker is said to be keen on increasing his wages after the big salaries offered to the new recruits.
Hakim Ziyech, who saw his loan move to PSG fall through in January, is also facing an uncertain future whilst summer signing Kalidou Koulibaly's short-lived spell in England could be coming to an abrupt end following the arrival of Benoit Badiashile.
The future of N'Golo Kante also remains up in the air. The midfielder's current deal is set to end in June and there had been increasing confidence that the Frenchman would extend his stay. However, with less than five months remaining, talks remain in a deadlock whilst Kante recovers from injury.
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