Chelsea are now preparing to start life under Mauricio Pochettino without all four of their main midfielders from the 2022/23 season.
After Manchester United reached an agreement over a deal to sign Mount for up to £60million, it means he is set to follow N'Golo Kante and Mateo Kovacic in departing this window. Jorginho was sold to Arsenal for £11million in January and the core of the 2021 Champions League side is all but gone.
Edouard Mendy was announced as having left to move to Saudi Arabia; only hours later the player that scored the winning goal in Porto, Kai Havertz, had his own exit confirmed. The Blues are very much delivering on their promise to rebuild the squad that crashed to a 12th-place finish last season, but such vast levels of change is still unprecedented.
