{"id":12749,"date":"2026-05-27T07:21:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T07:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=12749"},"modified":"2026-05-27T07:21:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T07:21:14","slug":"chelsea-set-to-try-and-sell-two-players-after-less-than-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=12749","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea set to try and sell two players after less than a year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Chelsea are going to sell a slew of first team players this summer, including potentially some who only arrived at the club a year ago.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><em>If you enjoy Chelsea News coverage and want to see more of it, add us as a preferred source on Google to make us a favourite and see more of our content.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Chelsea websites across the land are starting their annual \u201ckeep, sell, loan\u201d looks at the Blues\u2019 squad, and as ever it\u2019s interesting to see where they land on a bunch of Blues. Bobby Vincent\u2019s effort for Football.London sees a vicious cull of Xabi Alonso\u2019s squad.<\/p>\n<h2>Chelsea set to try and sell two players after less than a year<\/h2>\n<p>In terms of sales, he decides that Liam Delap, Alejandro Garnacho, Wesley Fofana, Malo Gusto, Filip Jorgensen, Marc Cucurella, Tosin Adarabioyo, Romeo Lavia, Benoit Badiashile, Marc Guiu and Axel Disasi should be sold by Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s some list. Perhaps most interesting are the first two, as they only arrived last summer. Could we really see the Blues cut their losses on almost \u00a370m worth of transfers from less than 12 months ago? We\u2019re sure they would love to, but it\u2019s hard to see who pays us what we paid for them given they each had a shocking year. 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