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·1 September 2025
BlueCo loan out player to make room for shock inter-ownership transfer deal today

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·1 September 2025
Chelsea’s owners BlueCo, have loaned out a player to make room for a shock inter-ownership transfer deal today as the hours tick by.
The transfer window ends tonight at 7pm so clubs are scrambling around for any last minute deals that they need to get done.
BlueCo are the owners of Chelsea and Strasbourg and have been rumoured to be wanting to add more clubs to their roster as well. But so far it’s just the two of them, and they have been doing plenty of deals between the two clubs so far and it’s not about to stop there.
Strasbourg recently signed Chelsea’s Ishe Samuels-Smith earlier this summer but it looks like his stay at the French club is going to be very short lived, at least for now anyway.
And that is because he’s about to be loaned out to Swansea City so BlueCo can transfer a Chelsea player across to Strasbourg.
Ben Chilwell applauds the fans. (Photo by Alex Pantling/Getty Images)
Forgotten Chelsea left back Ben Chilwell looks set to be heading to France to join Strasbourg, with Samuels-Smith departing to make room.
“Understand Chelsea’s plan is for Ben Chilwell to move to Strasbourg on permanent deal. Ishé Samuels-Smith heading to Swansea City on loan after moving to Strasbourg on permanent basis earlier this summer.”
You really have to feel for young Samuels-Smith in all of this. He got a permanent move to Strasbourg, probably excited to go and play in France and in Europe this season taking his first step into men’s football. To then be told that actually you’re going to Wales to join Swansea on loan because our owners want to send us one of their other players they are desperate to sell!