Mauricio Pochettino’s CHELSEA will go to the United States on Monday to inaugurate the new era.
But with only four days till the start of their summer tour, there is still no official plane passenger list due to Chelsea squad’s current state of upheaval.
The lineup for the first game against League Two Wrexham in North Carolina on Wednesday will be completely different from the one that closed a season at home against Newcastle only seven weeks prior.
The matchday lineup from the lackluster 1-1 draw on May 28 has lost eight members.
Cesar Azpilicueta, the team’s captain, Kai Havertz, who scored the winning goal in the Champions League, Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Edouard Mendy, Kalidou Koulibaly, Mateo Kovacic, Christian Pulisic, and Joao Felix are now only names in the past, along with Mason Mount, the team’s mascot.
Following Pulisic’s £20 million transfer to AC Milan, there were £210 million in sales, £91 million in pay savings, and some of football’s greatest stars gone.
Remember that N’Golo Kante also left, joining the Saudi rush once his contract expired. Others are waiting for new clubs at Stamford Bridge like uncomfortable teenagers hanging around by the radiators as they wait to be invited for a slow dance at a youth club party.
At Chelsea, there is no doubt that Romelu Lukaku, Hakim Ziyech, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Callum Hudson-Odoi, and Malang Sarr are excess players.
Conor Gallagher, a midfielder, has rejected a trade to Everton and is now desired by Tottenham. But if a deal isn’t reached for Moises Caicedo, he could decide to stay.
Chelsea’s squad appears light in central midfield, with Enzo Fernandez, Gallagher and rookie Carney Chukwuemeka — who has made just four Premier League starts — the only three options available to Poch.
