"Nobody ever won anything by selling players."
If those are true words then Chelsea should be worried. Their summer window has been very much a case of exits first, departures second and sales third. When a squad is 32 players high without considering the sea of loan talent coming back, it's a fair strategy.
There is reason behind their mass exodus that is more than just building finances to go again. On June 30 the club have a deadline for accounting and need to do as much balancing of the books as possible. After spending more than £600 million ($767m) in less than 12 months just to finish 12th and miss out on the additional finances of the Champions League, serious surgery was needed.
