Chelsea 2025-26 - Worldwide losingest team of the 2025-26 season

This is the current squad (copied from Transfermarkt).

Robert Sanchez
Djordje Petrovic (going to Bournemouth, £25 mil)
Filip Jørgensen
Mike Penders
Gabriel Slonina

Levi Colwill
Trevoh Chalobah
Wesley Fofana
Renato Veiga
Axel Disasi
Benoît Badiashile
Tosin
Mamadou Sarr
Aaron Anselmino
Marc Cucurella
Ben Chilwell
Malo Gusto
Reece James
Alfie Gilchrist
Josh Acheampong

Moisés Caicedo
Romeo Lavia
Dário Essugo
Lesley Ugochukwu
Enzo Fernández
Andrey Santos
Kiernan Dewsbury Hall
Carney Chukwuemeka
Mathis Amougou (going to Strasbourg, about £10 mil)
Cole Palmer
Christopher Nkunku
Kendry Paez
Estevao
Jamie Gittens
Tyrique George
Mykhaylo Mudryk
Pedro Neto
Noni Madueke (going to Arsenal, £52 mil)
Raheem Sterling
João Felix

Nicholas Jackson
Joao Pedro
Liam Delap
Armando Broja
Marc Guiu
Datro Fofana

Fair to say we'll sell/loan a fair few of these. Be interesting to see where they go.

We also sold a young defender Bashir Humphries to Burnely for about £10 mil. So if the Petrovic and Noni deals go through we've brought in about £70 so far.

Rumours of Conor Gallagher and Marc Guehi moving this window, we've got chunky sell-on %s coming in for those two if they move.

Felix and Sterling will be the tough ones to shift without taking a huge hit financially.
 
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duffer said:
Fair to say we'll sell/loan a fair few of these. Be interesting to see where they go.

We also sold a young defender Bashir Humphries to Burnely for about £10 mil. So if the Petrovic and Noni deals go through we've brought in about £70 so far.

Rumours of Conor Gallagher and Marc Guehi moving this window, we've got chunky sell-on %s coming in for those two if they move.

Felix and Sterling will be the tough ones to shift without taking a huge hit financially.
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Going to do a duffer and point out that it's a bit more than £70 so far
 
If you had told me two years ago, that my son‘s favorite player would be Cucurella I definitely would’ve thought you were crazy. I have been at times almost overly positive about the new ownership, but I’m really enjoying this and I can see a big plan coming together.
 
Bluelion7 said:
If you had told me two years ago, that my son‘s favorite player would be Cucurella I definitely would’ve thought you were crazy. I have been at times almost overly positive about the new ownership, but I’m really enjoying this and I can see a big plan coming together.
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Cucurella is already one of my all time favourite players for Chelsea because I love being proved wrong. He joins John Obi Mikel in that club.
 
Since clearlake consortium took over with last two petrovic and madueke sales chelsea sold £650mn worth of players and spent 1.5 bn worth in players.

More sales yet to come. Understood why egbali and co preferred maresca over tuchel and pochettino.

Maresca clearly worked under the frame created by technical directors. Appeared to look scatter gun approach but built a very good core of players and potential to challenge for title in next two seasons.
 
duffer said:
This is the current squad (copied from Transfermarkt).

Robert Sanchez
Djordje Petrovic (going to Bournemouth, £25 mil)
Filip Jørgensen
Mike Penders
Gabriel Slonina

Levi Colwill
Trevoh Chalobah
Wesley Fofana
Renato Veiga
Axel Disasi
Benoît Badiashile
Tosin
Mamadou Sarr
Aaron Anselmino
Marc Cucurella
Ben Chilwell
Malo Gusto
Reece James
Alfie Gilchrist
Josh Acheampong

Moisés Caicedo
Romeo Lavia
Dário Essugo
Lesley Ugochukwu
Enzo Fernández
Andrey Santos
Kiernan Dewsbury Hall
Carney Chukwuemeka
Mathis Amougou (going to Strasbourg, about £10 mil)
Cole Palmer
Christopher Nkunku
Kendry Paez
Estevao
Jamie Gittens
Tyrique George
Mykhaylo Mudryk
Pedro Neto
Noni Madueke (going to Arsenal, £52 mil)
Raheem Sterling
João Felix

Nicholas Jackson
Joao Pedro
Liam Delap
Armando Broja
Marc Guiu
Datro Fofana

Fair to say we'll sell/loan a fair few of these. Be interesting to see where they go.

We also sold a young defender Bashir Humphries to Burnely for about £10 mil. So if the Petrovic and Noni deals go through we've brought in about £70 so far.

Rumours of Conor Gallagher and Marc Guehi moving this window, we've got chunky sell-on %s coming in for those two if they move.

Felix and Sterling will be the tough ones to shift without taking a huge hit financially.
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Seems a little light. Need some rotation options.
 
Even with 400+ players on their books playing in this stupid shit till mid-July should definitely effect Chelsea negatively. They are likely to struggle during the early part of the season. I wonder if £85m earned through the CWC is eventually going to be worth it.
 
Insanity said:
Even with 400+ players on their books playing in this stupid shit till mid-July should definitely effect Chelsea negatively. They are likely to struggle during the early part of the season. I wonder if £85m earned through the CWC is eventually going to be worth it.
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We upgraded the squad in three areas strikers, am/wingers and midfield. We will be okay in my opinion for getting into top 4 next season. Three weeks mandatory rest likely for players and two friendlies. We may start slowly in league campaign but will catch up.
 
Wouldn't rule Chelsea out of a title race, nobody was that great last year, it's there if they go for it properly.
 
Not impossible but we're still more of a cup team and rely a lot on Palmer to make the difference, frequently. We were 2nd in December last season then fell away.

If Palmer stays fit and plays at level from yesterday most of the season.
 
Mb194dc said:
Not impossible but we're still more of a cup team and rely a lot on Palmer to make the difference, frequently. We were 2nd in December last season then fell away.

If Palmer stays fit and plays at level from yesterday most of the season.
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Sadly, you lot are my pick for the league this year.
 
Chelsea almost always in the title race before season KO
 
One of the dodgiest clubs around, but they've got a good team. Doubt they'll finish above Liverpool or arsenal in the league though
 
They could make a run at the league but a lot would have to break right.

Teams at the top have been around 90 points and goal difference of +50-60 in recent years. Chelsea got 69 points and GD of +21 last year while keeping their most important players very healthy and not really needing to play them much in any competition other than the league. Now they’ll be in CL so the strain on Palmer, Caicedo, Enzo etc will be substantially higher.

They’ll need to make a very significant leap forward to be in the title chase. But it could happen.
 
I think their defence is very strong. When they are on it they don't concede much. I watched them in a few games last year and they are a really physical defensive side with Caecido at the front of their defence.

Still think Liverpool and City are atleast stronger than them and probably Arsenal too.
 
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Powderfinger said:
They could make a run at the league but a lot would have to break right.

Teams at the top have been around 90 points and goal difference of +50-60 in recent years. Chelsea got 69 points and GD of +21 last year while keeping their most important players very healthy and not really needing to play them much in any competition other than the league. Now they’ll be in CL so the strain on Palmer, Caicedo, Enzo etc will be substantially higher.

They’ll need to make a very significant leap forward to be in the title chase. But it could happen.
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We also had Nico Jackson as our only striker who went ice cold for half a season. Palmer’s output dropped off a cliff second half as well. I think with the upgrades up top, with Palmer hopefully putting that bad patch behind him, and with Estevão coming in we should be MUCH better in attack.

If we don’t add anything else to the team in the transfer window from here then I’d agree that winning the league is a step beyond us. We’d still be 1-2 pieces away. But if we go out and sign a couple more players in key areas I think we’re in with a shout. Our squad would absolutely be right on par with the other 3 contenders.
 
duffer said:
Not in the prem.

Chelsea had a gold badge for a season after we won the world cup in 2021. Man City had it when they won. This isn't new.
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This is your second world cup!!!! I wonder if United has ever won one.
 
P-Ro said:
Cucurella is already one of my all time favourite players for Chelsea because I love being proved wrong. He joins John Obi Mikel in that club.
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I’m not proud of it but I was glad when he got his hair pulled in the final. He’s one of those players you hate in the opposition but wouldn’t mind in your own team doing it to someone else. Terrier.
 
They're not world champions

They won a pre season friendly tournament
 
Really impressed yesterday

I really liked their attitude. It was a proper football lesson to PSG.

Definitely a Premier League title contender this season.

That said, PSG weren’t themselves in the first half, especially coming off the win against Real Madrid. So it didn’t feel like the real PSG.
 
AdamColeBebe said:
They're not world champions

They won a pre season friendly tournament
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I take it you didn't watch any of it then? The clubs and the players certainly didn't see it as a friendly tournament, as seen by the strongest of lineup selections game after game and the level of effort and emotion shown by everyone taking part.

Is it the most prestigious competition in the world? Of course it's not, and even jokingly claiming so would be silly. Personally I'd rate it somewhere around the UEFA Europa League level of competition, as in way below UCL and any top domestic leagues around but higher than any domestic cup competitions and definitely above the UEFA Conference League. For South American clubs it probably ranks just under the Copa Libertadores but above anything else in importance.

Being held in the USA probably hurt the CWC concept quite a bit. Most locals don't care much for 'soccer' and certainly not enough for any neutrals to skip work to go watch 3 pm kick-offs in the middle of the week. That's where FIFA fecked up the most. If they'd had the tournament in Europe or South America then at least they'd have had an easier time filling the stadiums.
 
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I take it you didn't watch any of it then? The clubs and the players certainly didn't see it as a friendly tournament, as seen by the strongest of lineup selections game after game and the level of effort and emotion shown by everyone taking part.

Is it the most prestigious competition in the world? Of course it's not, and even jokingly claiming so would be silly. Personally I'd rate it somewhere around the UEFA Europa League level of competition, as in way below UCL and any top domestic leagues around but higher than any domestic cup competitions and definitely above the UEFA Conference League. For South American clubs it probably ranks just under the Copa Libertadores but above anything else in importance.

Being held in the USA probably hurt the CWC concept quite a bit. Most locals don't care much for 'soccer' and certainly not enough for any neutrals to skip work to go watch 3 pm kick-offs in the middle of the week. That's where FIFA fecked up the most. If they'd had the tournament in Europe or South America then at least they'd have had an easier time filling the stadiums.
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It isn't mate, come on
 
Rnd898 said:
I take it you didn't watch any of it then? The clubs and the players certainly didn't see it as a friendly tournament, as seen by the strongest of lineup selections game after game and the level of effort and emotion shown by everyone taking part.

Is it the most prestigious competition in the world? Of course it's not, and even jokingly claiming so would be silly. Personally I'd rate it somewhere around the UEFA Europa League level of competition, as in way below UCL and any top domestic leagues around but higher than any domestic cup competitions and definitely above the UEFA Conference League. For South American clubs it probably ranks just under the Copa Libertadores but above anything else in importance.

Being held in the USA probably hurt the CWC concept quite a bit. Most locals don't care much for 'soccer' and certainly not enough for any neutrals to skip work to go watch 3 pm kick-offs in the middle of the week. That's where FIFA fecked up the most. If they'd had the tournament in Europe or South America then at least they'd have had an easier time filling the stadiums.
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In what world would you run into PSG in the finals of a Europa league competition? I agree with everything else you said but that is as good as it gets in terms of standards in club football, maybe not as good because some of the best domestic European clubs of this season weren't there but a lot of the elites were.
 
All (but one) shook hands with Trump and celebrated with him. Bunch of MAGA twats.
 
2 BN people world wide viewed the tournament infantino said before the final. If that's true then tournament is a grand success.
 
Individual fans can get jealous and slag.off anything non Eurocentric all they want, but the leagues and the teams involved all signed contracts, and the champions who qualified for this mighty showdown with the highest prize money in history(? I think it was) Were obligated to field their best teams and acknowledge this was for the World Title.

That’s why PSG players were so upset yesterday. They finally win a CL, and in the same year they get slapped down in a battle of other CL winners. They can’t say they didn’t care, they made their online checkbox of teams they had overpowered and had a checkbox waiting for us. They told us “it’s coming!”

And we replied “isn’t Reece James healthy right now?”

Glorious day. We may pay for it in fatigue, but that was fantastic.
 
Rajiztar said:
2 BN people world wide viewed the tournament infantino said before the final. If that's true then tournament is a grand success.
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Lets be honest, Infantino is not remotely credible on this topic.
 
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