Why Chelsea refuse to sell their 5th choice defender after club decision | OneFootball

Chelsea’s ruthless transfer strategy has gone to another gear this summer, with the Blues now past the stage of selling off the players from the previous regime and into the stage of selling players bought within the last two years if the chance for profit is there.

Noni Madueke and Djordje Petrovic are gone, Renato Veiga and Joao Felix are likely to be next as the summer of sales rolls on.

High player turnover every summer the new reality for Chelsea

Tosin and Cole Palmer celebrate Club World Cup win. (Photo by David Ramos/Getty Images)

It’s an upsetting of the usual order of things in football – you wouldn’t have seen a first team regular like Madueke sold to a league rival in the days of Jose Mourinho. But that’s how it is now.

Anyone is for sale at the right price. But that doesn’t mean there won’t be decisions taken for the sake of the group as a whole.

Chelsea consider defender “untouchable” for off the field reasons

Curiously, given we’re happy to sell first choice players, there’s a fifth choice player who is apparently considered “untouchable.” An exclusive from the Sun over the weekend claimed that Tosin Adarabioyo was not for sale, despite interest from Crystal Palace and West Ham.

Wesley Fofana and Levi Colwill form Enzo Maresca’s favoured partnership and Trevoh Chalobah seems to be established as third choice now.  With the impending arrival of Jorrel Hato, Tosin could soon find himself 5th choice centre-back – but he won’t be going anywhere.

That’s because of his dressing room benefits – as one of the senior player who is seen to knit things together behind the scenes despite the endless personnel turnover, plus his close relationship with the team’s star player Cole Palmer.

That’s the best kind of job security of all.