Todd Boehly could gift Chelsea a late boost in the summer transfer window by finally permitting the sales of Timo Werner, Marcos Alonso and Cesar Azpilicueta. The trio have each been heavily linked with exits from Stamford Bridge amid increasingly uncertain futures under Thomas Tuchel's stewardship.
According to The Times, Werner, Alonso and Azpilicueta are all seeking a move away from the Blues, though the club is yet to solve their futures. They're worth a combined £85million by the CIES Football Observatory, which could land the west Londoners a healthy windfall as the Chelsea boss demands more signings amid a rebuild.
Speaking to football.london at the start of the window, Tuchel said: "We are rebuilding, not improving the squad. We are rebuilding. This is always challenging, but we are up for the challenge.
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"I don't know where we are from day one. What I can promise is that I will be here – if I can promise that – I will be here with full energy and positive energy no matter what. We will still work for Chelsea, and I refuse to think of negative scenarios. We will be competitive, on which level we will see."
Tuchel has already been gifted Kalidou Koulibaly and Raheem Sterling this summer, but the Blues are yet to fulfil the other half of the arrangement; a rebuild isn't just signing stars to plaster paper over the cracks. It's offloading players too. Chelsea are yet to receive or garner any sort of payment from a permanent transfer this summer other than the loan fee paid by Inter Milan for Romelu Lukaku.
This could soon prove to be a problem if it isn't big enough of one already. With several players on wage packets that aren't correlative to their production on the pitch compared to others on smaller payrolls, Chelsea could ignite a wider problem.
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