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Chelsea squad transfer values before possible £197m sales
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Chelsea have certainly been busy in the first few weeks of the summer transfer window. As is now a staple, the Blues have been linked with plenty of ins and outs.

Five have completed transfers but three of those are teenagers, continuing a trend of last few years, and one of those won't arrive until 2025. The two coming with more of an established record (Tosin Adarabioyo and Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall) are both good value-for-money additions but possibly do not improve the standards dramatically.

It leaves Enzo Maresca will plenty still to do both for exits and arrivals at Stamford Bridge. As Chelsea look to raise funds and also improve their longer-term sustainability plans, football.london has taken a look at the value of the players already in the group.

Robert Sanchez Sanchez's stock has only really dropped since signing for PS25milion last summer on a long-term deal, and that's saying something. Maresca will be hoping to get more out of him than Mauricio Pochettino.

Value: PS20million

Djordje Petrovic If Sanchez's price dropped then Petrovic's definitely went up. There are questions over his ability on the ball still but he had a solid enough first year.

Value: PS20million

Marcus Bettinelli As far as third choice 'keepers go, Bettinelli is a good character in the squad. If he ever has to play the Chelsea will be ruing their luck, but he's a popular member at Cobham, it's hard to go too wrong.

Value: PS1million

Levi Colwill Chelsea's defensive jewel. The Blues turned down bids of PS30million last summer and despite missing a large part of 2024 and being asked to play at left-back, Colwill is still a gem and one of the most talented young centre-backs around.

Value: PS75million

Axel Disasi Disasi lived up to expectations having signed for PS45million. He is extremely durable and versatile when needed. The Frenchman provides plenty of intangible qualities as well as an aerial threat, is a funny personality to have, but does not raise the floor of the squad that much.

Value: PS30million

Benoit Badiashile If Disasi is the solid but unspectacular ex-Monaco defender then Badiashile is the high-ceiling but inconsistent alternative. In his first six months at the club he looked a really good get but last season was more of a struggle.

Value: PS35million

Wesley Fofana Fofana could be anything and everything for Chelsea if he stayed fit. The if is getting bigger and bigger as well. This feels like a decisive period coming up because he could and probably should be first choice on the right when up to match sharpness. Signed for PS70million, he is worth much less now but the potential is still sky high.

Value: PS50million

Chelsea may be keen to sell for just PS35million but that doesn't reflect his quality. Chalobah outperformed all of Chelsea's defenders last year, even though he missed over half of the campaign with injury.

Value: PS60million

Alfie Gilchrist There isn't loads of first-team evidence to go off with Gilchrist, who is likely to get a loan this summer. He is a well-regarded young man, though, and can play in multiple positions.

Value: PS5million

Ben Chilwell Signed for PS50million in 2021, Chelsea have got their money's worth out of Chilwell, but it is heavily backloaded. He has been unfit and lacking form and/or consistency for much of the last two years. Chelsea will reportedly consider offers for him despite a new contract recently.

Value: PS30million

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Marc Cucurella What a turnaround it has been for Cucurella in 2024. He looked likely to leave 12 months ago and is now standing out for Spain at the European Championship. He has a long way to go to repay the PS62million he cost, but there are promising signs.

Value: PS35million

Reece James Much like Chilwell, James has spent too much of the past few seasons on the sidelines to reflect the quality he actually has. Real Madrid and PS80million were banded about previously but now it's back to basics for James before showing what he can really do.

Value: PS50million

Malo Gusto One of the big winners of the Todd Boehly-Clearlake Capital ownership so far. At just PS20million Gusto has been a bargain and will not be considered sellable right now.

Value: PS50million

Moises Caicedo It's always tough to justify PS115million as a transfer price and Caicedo certainly hasn't done that yet. He had a much stronger year at Stamford Bridge than given credit for but realistically Chelsea paid massively over the odds to get him in the first place.

Value: PS60million

Romeo Lavia How to judge a teenager signed for PS58million who only played 30 minutes last season? Lavia has a unique skillset that makes him valuable and promising, but Chelsea went above and beyond market prices to get him last summer.

Value: PS45million

Lesley Ugochukwu The French midfielder played a bigger role last season than many expected but for PS22million the investment wasn't small. He showed flashes of being worth much more in the future but it's unlikely that he does that without a loan.

Value: PS15million

Enzo Fernandez It is a common theme in midfield for Chelsea to have splashed more on their players than they were really worth. Fernandez is no exception, but he does offer attributes that don't come with every midfielder, and Chelsea will be rewarded with a fine player and someone who offers them plenty in the years to come.

Value: PS70million

Conor Gallagher Copy and paste the Chalobah segment. Gallagher is one of the most important players for Chelsea but the public valuation has rarely reflected that. The club are now looking at closer to PS50million to sell him in the final 12 months of his contract which is more like it, but if Mount went for PS60million then Gallagher is equally as valuable given his form and place in the England squad.

Value: PS60million

Carney Chukwuemeka Possibly the attacking midfielder with the most potential in the Chelsea squad. There hasn't been much back from the PS20million spent on him so far, and reports suggest Chelsea have a PS40million release clause in his contract.

Value: PS40million

Value: PS95million

Christopher Nkunku Chelsea picked up Nkunku for what looked like a cheap fee of just PS52million. At that stage he was one of the most in-form attackers in Europe. He hasn't done much since to improve on that but it is mainly due to injury. The small glimpses of him in the side have reflected a player with lots to offer.

Value: PS60million

Raheem Sterling Chelsea's top earner and now oldest first-team player, Sterling has had a frustrating time of things at Stamford Bridge. His wages are an outlier in the squad and his performances don't back it up. Sterling is happy at Chelsea, football.london understands, but they might not be with him if results to improve.

Value: PS30million

Mykhailo Mudryk If the new Chelsea ownership could be summed up in one deal so far, it's this. PS62million possibly rising to PS80milion on a 22-year-old without a proven senior record of note in adult football. Money spent on promise and potential rather than immediate quality, Mudryk is valued closer to the PS30million Brentford were willing to pay in the summer of 2022 than the price Chelsea ended up stretching to.

Value: PS35million

Noni Madueke Almost half the price of Mudryk, Madueke has been just as hit-and-miss at stages. His form towards the end of last term offers promise but there is a way for the English winger to go before another club is offering more than Chelsea paid for him.

Value: PS25million

Nicolas Jackson If Gusto and Palmer are success stories for the Chelsea model then Jackson isn't far behind. As a relatively unknown PS30million signing he outperformed many of Chelsea's previous expensive forwards and still has plenty of room to develop.

Value: PS60million

Armando Broja For Jacskon's promise there is Broja's frustration. Chelsea rejected PS30million for the Albanian two summers ago but now he is a shadow of that player. A sale for anything vaguely substantial will be explored but the club will do well to get close to the PS35million value from January.

Value: PS20million

Notable others Here are some of the players in or returning to the Chelsea squad this summer who have either not played much football or are uncertain to be involved. Sarr and Fofana both look like candidates to depart.

Malang Sarr (PS2million), Cesare Casadei (PS10million), David Datro Fofana (PS15million), Andrey Santos (PS30million). Dewsbury-Hall, the newest signing, is probably worth more than PS30million but Chelsea only just signed him, and Adarabioyo despite coming in on a free is at least a PS30million man.

It is impossible to truly estimate how much Estevao Willian is worth, whilst Omari Kellyman is surely less than the PS19million paid for him. Other players, Deivid Washington, Angelo Gabriel, and Diego Moreira, simply haven't had the first-team exposure to evaluate just yet.

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