Here are two words that will send a shiver down the spine of every Chelsea fan: pure profit. In a world dominated by considerations around the Premier League’s financial regulations, they cannot help but fret about their homegrown talents being sold off to protect the bottom line.
Then again, needs must at Chelsea after a loss of £90.1m in the last financial year. Perhaps, even though it would be a dreadful idea, there is no option but to sell Conor Gallagher to the highest bidder this summer. If so, though, they would be doing their rivals a huge favour. After all, nobody could possibly have watched their deserved 2-0 win over Tottenham in a fevered, skittish London derby and concluded that the smartest thing a club striving for an identity can do next would be to reduce Gallagher to a faceless number in their next set of accounts.
