Chelsea’s squad has changed almost entirely in the last couple of years.
There was an original squad, now largely swept away. Then there was the spending of Clearlake window 1 under Todd Boehly as sporting director. Half of those players are gone too. Then there’s the four Laurence Stewart and Paul Winstanley windows.
Now they’ve passed and we have decent information on what the players in the squad are being paid, it’s interesting to consider weighting of the spend in the squad.
You can see the full list of wages in the graphic embedded here:
Chelsea’s wage spending taking shape after years of upheaval
Now one thing should be pointed out – you can never take these things too seriously. Nobody knows the real numbers and the totality of all the clauses and escalators in there, but the rough overall value is usually vaguely correct.
So on that basis, it’s always interesting to note some of the big differences. Renato Veiga is a second choice left back and a rotation option in midfield. His bargain £25,000 a week will surely get a boost considering it’s barely more than half Deivid Washington’s £40,000. He can’t even get on the bench for the second team.
Noni Madueke is a first choice right winger, on £50,000 a week. That’s half Carney Chukwuemeka or Marc Guiu.
It will be very interesting to see what happens with Jadon Sancho too. He’s on a reported £250,000 a week from Man Utd, but when signing for Chelsea would have to drop that massively. The £180,000 a week paid to Enzo Fernandez is surely a pretty hard cap.
If Sancho does well he increases his leverage – but probably also embeds himself deeper in the Chelsea setup and increases his willingness to take a wage cut and sign a permanent deal here.
It’s a fascinate puzzle to watch play out.
