Todd Boehly’s spending spree after taking on Chelsea was as spectacular because it was wild. Graham Potter needed to take care of a dressing room bursting on the seams with gamers of various means and worth.
Chelsea have spent large earlier than and reaped the rewards. The Roman Abramovich period made the Blues serial champions and laid the groundwork for his successor to come back in and check out the identical method.
They haven’t achieved the identical outcomes but. The 2024-25 season has thus far exceeded the expectations of the broader soccer public however it’s a extra conservative method to the switch market that’s allowed Enzo Maresca to guide his workforce in a comparatively regular method since taking on as supervisor in the summertime of 2024.
Who’s Chelsea’s costliest ever signing?
Enzo Fernandez is Chelsea’s file signing (Picture credit score: Robin Jones/Getty Photos)
Chelsea file signing is Enzo Fernandez , who joined from Benfica in 2023 as a World Cup winner with Argentina. He was rated extraordinarily extremely and have become the fifth costliest participant in soccer historical past – and the most costly performed of the 2020s – when the Blues forked out £106.8m for his signature.
Fernandez performed his means again into the beginning eleven and captained the Blues to a few consecutive wins after questions over his future in November . He scored in back-to-back video games in opposition to Leicester Metropolis and Aston Villa to strengthen Maresca’s determination to deliver him again into the facet.
Who held the Chelsea switch file earlier than Enzo Fernandez?
Romelu Lukaku’s second transfer to Chelsea was for a membership file charge (Picture credit score: Getty) (Picture credit score: Getty Photos)
Fernandez is only one of three Chelsea signings within the ten costliest transfers of all time. Moises Caicedo joined after him for a cool £100m and the earlier file holder was Romelu Lukaku , whose £97.5m took him again to Chelsea from Inter Milan and 2021.
Lukaku took over from Kepa Arrizabalaga . Kepa joined from Athletic Bilbao in 2018 for £71.6m, which made him the world’s costliest goalkeeper mere weeks after Liverpool signed Alisson. He’s at the moment on mortgage at Bournemouth.
Chelsea signed Alvaro Morata from Actual Madrid for a then-record charge of £58m. After a mortgage and eventual transfer to Atletico Madrid and a subsequent mortgage to Juventus, Morata signed for AC Milan in the summertime of 2024.
Although he’s by no means been the membership file signing for both Chelsea or Arsenal, Kai Havertz’s transfer to Chelsea from Bayer Leverkusen in 2020 places him fifth on Chelsea’s costliest signings record. Havertz is the most costly German participant of all-time , nevertheless. He’s additionally their second-highest worth sale – his transfer throughout London to Arsenal for £65m makes him the third costliest signing within the Gunners’ historical past.
The opposite signings in Chelsea’s prime ten record have been a blended bag when it comes to their affect at Stamford Bridge.
Wesley Fofana joined from Leicester Metropolis in 2022 for £70m (sixth on the record) and Mykhailo Mudryk’s change from Shakhtar Donetsk value Chelsea £62m (seventh) in 2023. 23-year-old Mudryk has struggled to justify the charge beneath successive Blues managers however has time on his facet. The place he spends that point is one other query.
Christian Pulisic has a share of joint eighth positioned with Morata. The USA worldwide signed from Borussia Dortmund for £58m. Jorginho’s £57m transfer from Napoli makes him Chelsea’s tenth costliest signing of all time.
Chelsea’s ten costliest signings of all time
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Participant
Charge
12 months
Signed from
Enzo Fernandez
£106.8m
2023
Benfica
Moises Caicedo
£100m
2023
Brighton
Romelu Lukaku
£97.5m
2021
Inter Milan
Kepa Arrizabalaga
£71.6m
2018
Athletic Bilbao
Kai Havertz
£71m
2020
Bayer Leverkusen
Wesley Fofana
£70m
2022
Leicester Metropolis
Mykhailo Mudryk
£62m
2023
Shakhtar Donetsk
Alvaro Morata
£58m
2017
Actual Madrid
Christian Pulisic
£58m
2019
Borussia Dortmund
Jorginho
£57m
2018
Napoli
