Chelsea's issues from poor recruitment have not just damaged them on the football pitch, with over £250 million worth of talent scoring just 43 goals combined since 2019.
This has created not only a world where Chelsea's biggest assets, prize wise, then become hard to offload when things go wrong, but they have also historically moved to the club on the highest wages.
Examples of this are plentiful. Timo Werner is currently paid the third most at the club despite scoring just six goals last season, Christian Pulisic earns more than double that of Reece James, and Kepa Arrizabalaga is on three times that of the right-back as well.
