Maybe i'm going slightly off topic here
And I haven't been following Chelsea as closely over the last few seasons as I did before (the whole lockdowns killed some of my interest) so take this with whatever grain (or kilogram) of salt........
but........to me the problem isn't so much getting rid of players like Werner and Ziyech but the fact we bought them in the first place.
Probably less so Werner than Ziyech as at least Werner had a high ceiling (potential) and was young. I don't mind taking an educated punt on young, high ceiling players and it not working. But running off to buy mid-twenties decent but not great players that will never be truely world class seems pointless and stupid to me. Why go out to buy a player from A**x that is only going to lose his place to Ruben Loftus Cheek and cost more (plus fill a non-homegrown slot) in the process?
It would be different if we were going to just accept we aren't a top budget team anymore, but it's clear from the recent spurge (and the one under Lampard during hoaxvid19) that we are absolutely one of the biggest spending clubs in the world (after Man City and PSG, ahead of even Liverpool). We should only be signing players who are either a) world class or b) potential to be world class. All this messing around with middling premier league quality decent/good players who aren't homegrown is dumb and pointless to my mind.
We have a world class academy that's produced the likes of Mount, James, Tomori, Abraham, RLC and even Ake in recent(ish) years. They should be the back ups to the world class signings, not the likes of Ziyech or Drinkwater.
Basically if they aren't coming in to be starters or high ceiling potential young players, I think the place is better off filled with a homegrown or academy player.
So many are excited about the heap of new signing coming into the club and to be honest, I just see alot of signings that may be on the scrap heap like Ziyech in 3 years and us going out to spend another fortune on another bunch of not world class players.
