Chelsea have had another busy summer in the transfer window, with new winger Estevao catching the eye in the win at West Ham alongside Joao Pedro and Liam Delap.
Enzo Maresca has added nine new faces to his team – and wants more – but the club have recouped a reported figure in the region of £250m so far on shipping players out.
So who has made way?
Four keepers out the door
Kepa Arrizabalaga was excellent on loan at Bournemouth last season but has surprisingly decided to make a permanent move across London to Arsenal this summer.
For those wondering how Chelsea have managed to spend so much money on players, take a look at the exit door over the last decade. Nobody does it better when it comes to player sale profits. The whole point about player trading is that trading involves buying and selling. Throw… pic.twitter.com/RiCUOAUXHz
— Kieran Maguire (@KieranMaguire) June 29, 2025
The Cherries replaced him, naturally enough, with another Chelsea man in Dorde Petrovic for a fee of £25m. Marcus Bettinelli has also moved on, to Manchester City, while Lucas Bergstrom has gone to Mallorca. Mike Penders – a new signing – is on loan at sister club Strasbourg.
£40m of reserve left-backs
Marc Cucurella has made the left-back spot his own at Chelsea while Ben Chilwell remains at the club for now. Chelsea have sold Bashir Humphreys to Burnley and Renato Veiga to Villarreal for big money this summer.
The big-money movers
Noni Madueke was perhaps the most surprising departure of the summer, also joining Arsenal for a reported £48.5m, while Joao Felix’s nomadic career took him to Saudi Arabia for £26m.
The Blues pocketed another £25m for Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, who moved from the bench to join Everton, while Armando Broja and Lesley Ugochukwu joined Burnley for a combined £49m.
Midfielder Carney Chukwuemeka has turned his loan at Dortmund permanent.
Carney Chukwuemeka has completed a permanent move to Borussia Dortmund.
We want to thank Carney for his efforts and wish him well for the future.
— Chelsea FC (@ChelseaFC) August 26, 2025
With Marc Guiu going on loan to Sunderland, and Kendry Paez and Mamadou Sarr also pitching up at Strasbourg on a temporary basis, it’s been a whirlwind few weeks.
And there could be more movement yet, as striker Nicolas Jackson looks likely to depart after being rapidly usurped by Pedro and Delap and the likes of Raheem Sterling and Christopher Nkunku still at the club.