BBC · Mar 20, 2025
Why are Chelsea stockpiling so many young players?
Image caption, Geovany Quenda signed for Chelsea from Sporting this week for £42mTransfers in March?
Should we be surprised when Chelsea sign two young players for a combined £62m outside of the transfer window... or is this just the latest quirk of the club hierarchy's unquenching appetite for deals?
Sporting winger Geovany Quenda, 17, will join the Blues in 2026, while midfielder Dario Essugo, 20, will move this summer to deputise for Moises Caicedo.
A recent Uefa report declared Chelsea's 2024 squad was "comfortably the most expensive ever assembled", 24% higher than the previous record by Real Madrid in 2020.