By the time Chelsea face Liverpool in August for the opening game of the 2023/24 season, seven of their starting XI that featured against Everton under Thomas Tuchel 12 months earlier will have left the club.
Of the 20-man squad, nine have already departed with another two expected to shortly. It wouldn't be out of realms of possibilities that the number rises to 12 having been sold or released.
It demonstrates perhaps more than anything else just how much change has already taken place this summer. The fact that both managers that day, Thomas Tuchel and Frank Lampard, would manage Chelsea in the same season but not be there to sit in the dugout against Jurgen Klopp in four weeks, is hardly believable.O
