Boehly must finally sell Chelsea flop who’s drained them of £114m

Chelsea could have loads of work to do within the upcoming summer season switch window to construct a squad that is able to compete for the most important trophies on provide.

The Blues solely have the Convention League left to play for within the present marketing campaign, after being knocked out of the League Cup and the EFL Cup, however they’re on target to seal a spot within the Champions League with a prime 4 or prime 5 end.

Enzo Maresca could look to streamline the squad and transfer on from a few of the gamers who both haven’t contributed sufficient on the pitch, or who’ve been out on mortgage and never carried out sufficient to earn a spot within the aspect for the 2025/26 marketing campaign.

Transferring a few of the highest earners and largest underperformers on from Stamford Bridge in the summertime might create house on the membership for brand spanking new signings to return in and enhance the Italian coach’s group.

Chelsea’s highest wage earners

The highest three earners within the squad, Reece James, Wesley Fofana, and Christopher Nkunku have solely began 30 of a potential 87 matches within the Premier League this season.

James is reportedly the very best earner on the membership on £250k-per-week, per Capology, adopted by Fofana on £215k-per-week, and Nkunku on £195k-per-week, and there could should be selections to be made on how a lot worth for cash the membership are getting out of them.

What you can’t see in that record of the highest ten earners on the membership, nevertheless, is that Chelsea are nonetheless reportedly paying £75k-per-week to Spanish goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga, who’s on mortgage at Bournemouth.

Why Chelsea should lastly promote Kepa Arrizabalaga

Maresca should, now, lastly money in on the Spain worldwide in the summertime switch window as a result of the membership have despatched tens of millions down the drain on the shot-stopper so far.

Chelsea reportedly smashed their club-record switch charge to make him the most costly goalkeeper in historical past with a £71m cope with Athletic Bilbao in the summertime of 2018, and he penned a contract value roughly £150k-per-week.

Kepa reportedly earned £39.1m in wages throughout his first 4 seasons at Cobham, conceding 175 objectives in 163 appearances for the membership in that point, which takes the whole spent on him to £110.1m previous to this season.

The Spaniard, whose wages had been lined by Actual Madrid on mortgage final time period, may have earned £3.9m in wages from the Blues – due to a 50% break up with Bournemouth – this season and that takes the general spend on him to £114m.

Kepa’s performances on the pitch for Chelsea when he was an everyday within the first group didn’t present good worth for that amount of cash.

Not solely was there that ridiculous incident the place he refused to be substituted however he conceded 8.9 extra objectives than the typical goalkeeper would have been anticipated to based mostly on the post-shot xG of the efforts towards him within the Premier League in 109 matches.

Gary Neville heaped criticism on the £71m goalkeeper again in 2020 over his fixed concession of long-range objectives – 19 on the time – as he described his shot-stopping performances as a “sorry story” for a participant of that worth.

This reveals that the 30-year-old flop, who didn’t win a Premier League title with the Blues, underperformed on the most important job a goalkeeper has – saving photographs.

Kepa’s contract at Stamford Bridges expires in the summertime of 2026 and Maresca should push the board to money in on him this yr, to keep away from dropping him for nothing and to, hopefully, recoup a small quantity of the £114m that has been wasted on the dud to this point.