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Nizaar Kinsella
BBC Sport football news reporter
Published
12 June 2025
Chelsea are open to the fact that they need to sell a host of players, especially those that spent last season on loan.
The club's policy is not to carry a large group of loanees that are not expected or likely to make it into the first team.
In their 28-man Club World Cup selection, only one loanee progressed into Enzo Maresca squad from last season, midfielder Andrey Santos.
The remaining players, including Raheem Sterling, Axel Disasi, Kepa Arrizabalaga, Djordje Petrovic, Armando Broja, Joao Felix, Renato Veiga, Ben Chilwell, Carney Chukwuemeka, Lesley Ugochukwu, and others, are mostly for sale. The asking price for Kepa is known to be only £5m as he enters the last year of his contract, while Benfica are being credited with serious interest to re-sign Felix.
In the case of Sterling, the winger made 12 starts last season while on loan at Arsenal, a club in North London. The Blues paid him roughly half of his current £300,000-a-week salary. Alfie Gilchrist, Alex Matos, Leo Castledine, and Zak Sturge are all EFL loanees who are also looking into permanent moves away from Stamford Bridge. Defender Sturge, 20, is in advanced talks about making his loan move at Millwall permanent at the end of the season.
Chelsea prefer sales rather than loan moves at this stage but could relax their position later in the transfer window if they struggle to find exits for players.
Kendry Paez, a midfielder, and Mathis Amougou, a goalkeeper, are both in talks to sign new contracts and possibly join Bolton Wanderers on loan. Midfielders Kendry Paez and Mathis Amougou are expected to join Strasbourg on loan.
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