Chelsea could make unprecedented trouble transfer move which could disrupt their season | OneFootball

Today alone, we’ve had rumours which are really strongly connecting Chelsea players who signed in the summer with an exit this January.

According to Matt Law of the Telegraph, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall is available – and Chelsea would rather sell than loan him.

Meanwhile Ben Jacobs has confirmed that Renato Veiga has agreed personal terms with Borussia Dortmund and is just waiting for Chelsea to agree a transfer deal with the German side.

Now we don’t really rate either player, and we don’t have a problem with them leaving. But it’s very unusual to have a player leave after 6 months, let alone 2. It’s an odd way of running your team and setting up your squad.

The pair must have known they were only going to be backups to begin with – surely they don’t feel misled by how much they’ve been used.

From Chelsea’s perspective – was their scouting really so poor on these guys that they want rid of them after 6 months? Even if they’ve not lived up to the club’s expectations, wouldn’t it be better to maintain stability and keep them around until the summer when there will be a much better opportunity to reshuffle things?

Chelsea risk disruption with squad fiddling

The chaos of two years ago saw far too many players bought in January, creating a bloated squad

But it’s not just big squads that create issues – you don’t want to be constantly tinkering with your squad, you want them to create chemistry on and off the pitch. Change for change’s sake – which these sort of transfers feel like – can be more damaging than you might think at the very top level.

Chelsea waste tens of millions in every window – is selling someone like Veiga after 6 months really worth the disruption for a marginal profit? We’re just not sure it us.