Chelsea may need to do a lot of work in the transfer window for the upcoming summer to build a team ready to compete for the biggest trophies on offer.
The Blues only have a conference league left in their current campaign after being knocked out of the League Cup and EFL Cup, but they are on the course to seal the place with top four or top five finishes in the Champions League.
Enzo Maresca may be aiming to streamline his team and move on from some of the players who have either contributed enough to the pitch or are lending it out, and have not done enough to get a place on the side of the 2025/26 campaign.
Moving some of the highest earners and biggest underperformers from Stamford Bridge in the summer will allow new signatures to come at the club to create space for the Italian coaches to improve the team.
Chelsea’s highest wage hunter
The team’s top three players, Reese James, Wesley Fofana and Christopher Nukank, have only started 30 of their 87 Premier League matches this season.
James is reportedly the best winner in nkunku in a week, followed by Fofana at £250k per week, with Capology followed by £215,000 a week.
Chelsea’s highest earner (except loans) | |
|---|---|
player | Weekly wages |
Reese James | £250k |
Wesley Fofana | £215k |
Christopher Nunk | £195k |
Enzo Fernandez | £180k |
Mark Kukulera | £175k |
Pedro Net | £160,000 |
Moises Caiceco | £150k |
Call Palmer | £130k |
Toshin Adarabiyo | £100,000 |
Nicholas Jackson | £100,000 |
Wages by Capologies | |
But what’s not visible on the club’s top 10 earners is that Chelsea reportedly pays £75,000 a week to Spanish goalkeeper Kepa Alizabaraga, who is still on loan at Bournemouth.
Why does Chelsea have to sell Kepa Alizabaraga in the end?
Maresca will have to ultimately win cash to Spanish International in the summer transfer window as the club has sent millions of drains with shot stoppers so far.
Chelsea reportedly sacked the club record transfer fee and signed a £701 million contract with Athletic Bilbao in the summer of 2018, making him the most expensive goalkeeper in history, with him writing contracts worth around £150,000 a week.
Kepa reportedly earned £39.1 million in his first four seasons at Cobham, and at that point he has confirmed 175 goals in the club’s 163 appearances, bringing his total to £110.1 million spent on him earlier this season.
The Spaniard, whose wages were covered by Real Madrid last year, has earned a £3.9 million wage from the Blues this season thanks to a 50% split with Bournemouth, which will bring his overall spending to him to £114 million.
Kepa’s performance on the pitch for Chelsea did not provide good value for that amount when he was a regular on the first team.
Not only was there a ridiculous incident that he refused to replace, but he also acknowledged more goals of 8.9 than the average goalkeeper would be expected based on XG’s XG’s XG of his efforts against him in the Premier League in 109 games.
Postshot Expected Goals (PSXG) are metrics used to determine the likelihood that goalkeepers will save a shot.
Gary Neville explained his £71 million goalkeeper in 2020 as “sorry for the inconvenience” for players of that value, as he described his £71 million goalkeeper as “sorry” for players of that value, and his shot-stop performance was “sorry for the inconvenience.”
This shows that the 30-year-old flop, who didn’t win the Premier League title with the Blues, has slowed down his performance with the biggest job the goalkeeper has: saving shots.
Kepa’s contract at Stamford Bridges expired in the summer of 2026, and Maresca will have to push the board this year to acquire him.
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