Chelsea January signings 2023

Chelsea have a registration problem after a January transfer window spending spree; UEFA rules state only three new players can be registered for the ...

AG14: It has to be Mudryk as he's a great, skilful player which is what Chelsea need. Felix, in my opinion wasn't a needed option anyway with the players we have that fit that profile. And then Badiashile, what a signing, so he should get the third spot Mudryk has to be in the squad for £88m. Would Chelsea want to go into the Champions League without him in their squad?" "Enzo Fernandez has got to be in the squad for £105m. Enzo has just arrived so they may want him to spend some time adapting to their play style (whatever that may be) first. Enzo will be included as you don't spend that money on a player and not include them The 21-year-old has started two Premier League games so far and Chelsea have kept clean sheets in both of them. With Kalidou Koulibaly, Wesley Fofana, Thiago Silva, Trevoh Chalobah, Marc Cucurella and Cesar Azpilicueta all able to play in a back three, Badiashile is looking at a lot of centre-back rivals. In a brief debut cameo against Liverpool, Mudryk showed that he belongs at the highest level of football. The Premier League's registration deadline is also on Thursday.

By all accounts Arsenal was very much in the running to sign Ukrainian superstar Mykhailo Mudryk during the January transfer window.

The Premier League is successful because it’s got things right.” The January transfer window is often viewed as the worst time to buy players, given clubs don’t want to lose valuable assets and arguably hold the upper hand in negotiations. T”his is something where it has been an evolutionary process of trying to figure out who are those best players.” In his first full transfer window last summer as the club’s interim sporting director, Boehly and Chelsea spent a reported $302.08 million on new signings, according to Transfermarkt. The deal for Fernández brings the club’s recent transfer outlay to over $600 million. Fernandez also signed on an eight-and-a-half year contract at Stamford Bridge, according to the BBC. As the current Premier League leader, the 22-year-old forward had the potential to be a pivotal addition in the title race. And that means at times, not all the pieces are fit together,” said Dormer. [reiterated its calls](https://www.fairgameuk.org/press-releases/transfer-window) for a transfer levy to put in place for Premier League clubs, saying it could raise almost $200 million which “could help provide a vital life line to clubs below the top flight that continue to struggle with the fall out of the pandemic and the day-to-day challenges of the cost-of-living crisis.” Since arriving at Chelsea, it’s estimated that Boehly has spent close to $750 million on transfers. “So finding another club who’s willing to take the player off of Chelsea’s hands and pay them a level of remuneration to which the player is happy is going to be quite challenging.” “Along with our commitment to developing the youth squad and acquiring the best talent, our plan of action is to invest in the Club for the long-term and build on Chelsea’s remarkable history of success.”

Chelsea have until 11pm to name their updated UEFA Champions League squad list following an eventful January transfer window under Graham Potter and Todd ...

At his peak, Kante was one of the world's best in his role. With the addition of Fernandez, a midfield sport is likely to be filled. Again, it may not be wholly accurate to describe the two as distinctively similar. [Potter](https://www.football.london/all-about/graham-potter) will hope the likes of Fernandez, alongside fellow additions such as [Mykhailo Mudryk](https://www.football.london/chelsea-fc/transfer-news/breaking-chelsea-transfer-mykhaylo-mudryk-25980280), can inspire a much-improved second half of the season. [current UEFA rules on squad registration state](https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/news/024e-0e9960c4c766-21ef2df7ed44-1000--can-january-signings-play-in-the-champions-league-europa-lea/): "As of the knockout round play-offs, a club may register a maximum of three new eligible players for the remaining matches in the current competition. With opportunities destined to be even more limited for the Moroccan after the signings of Mudryk and Noni Madueke, could wantaway But having made just two appearances this season, could there be logic in such a move? Raheem is less, hopefully, less than that," Potter said in January, seemingly ruling him out of fixtures against his former club. Pulisic, too, has struggled to nail down a consistent starting spot throughout his time at Stamford Bridge. The removal of If all had gone to plan, Hakim Ziyech would no longer be a Chelsea player. Effectively, Chelsea can only add three new signings to their Champions League squad.

Is Chelsea Setting the Market, or Breaking It? The Premier League club's American owners have splashed roughly $750 million on new players since last year.

The deal had been in the works for a week or so. In the rest of Europe, the fear is a little more material. In interviews with a dozen executives at teams both in the Premier League and across Europe, all of whom spoke with The New York Times anonymously because they did not wish to be seen commenting on another team’s business strategy, few could immediately discern the logic of Chelsea’s approach. Among Chelsea’s peers and rivals, the reaction to the club’s spending spree on players has been one of puzzlement. The issue was raised at a meeting of UEFA’s executive board last month, and several teams have since contacted Andrea Traverso, the organization’s head of licensing, to ask European soccer’s governing body what action it plans to take to close the loophole. Though clubs pay the vast majority of a transfer fee upfront — or in a handful of installments over a couple of years — the price of the acquisition is often spread over the duration of the player’s contract, a process known as amortization. In several of its most expensive deals, Chelsea has sought to use that accounting to its advantage. Their preferred mechanism, it seems, has been to defer the official cost of the deals. Arsenal had been discussing the terms of a deal with Shakhtar for some time, and Mudryk had even seemed to welcome his imminent transfer on Instagram. Chelsea’s offer, Palkin said, had been more “concrete” than Arsenal’s: It had offered to pay the nine-figure fee for Mudryk over two years instead of the four Arsenal had proposed. That took Chelsea’s outlay in January alone to more than $370 million, the kind of spending that is criticized when done by oligarchs and nation states. Amrabat would, in the end, be a rare miss in what has been an eye-watering, gasp-inducing month of spending from Eghbali, Boehly and Chelsea.

Chelsea transfer news has been in overdrive for many months and the big spending will continue as Todd Boehly and Co. overhaul the club.

(AE) (NM) [Daily Mirror](https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/chelsea-target-bayern-munich-defender-27405525). (JPW) [The Telegraph](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2022/06/25/thomas-tuchel-makes-contact-raheem-sterling-ahead-chelsea-bid/?utm_content=football&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1656151013) states that Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel has reached out directly to Raheem Sterling to discuss a possible move to Stamford Bridge this summer. [The Athletic](https://theathletic.com/news/cristiano-ronaldo-chelsea/2stnytD5AHQv/) claims that Chelsea chairman Todd Boehly has been in talks with Jorge Mendes about a potential deal for Cristiano Ronaldo. Would take their spending over £200m and could be more beyond that (FDJ, Casadei, Auba targeted). [Man United](https://soccer.nbcsports.com/2022/06/08/manchester-united-transfer-news-live-latest-reports-rumors-updates/) It is reported (below) that Chelsea will pay the Norwegian side $12.7 million for Fofana. [Man City](https://soccer.nbcsports.com/2022/06/07/manchester-city-transfer-news-live-latest-reports-rumors-updates/) [Liverpool](https://soccer.nbcsports.com/2022/06/08/liverpool-transfer-news-live-latest-reports-rumors-updates/) [Tottenham](https://soccer.nbcsports.com/2022/06/02/tottenham-transfer-news-live-latest-reports-rumors-updates/)