Episode 99 - Rebuilding Chelsea: Buying 2 World Class players + Who must be sold?

On this episode, Ted and Patrick take on the tough job of rebuilding Chelsea. Where do they even start, how do they handle all their assets, and what positions should they spend their money on? The guys analyze the squad and highlight players that would be smart signings this summer. Enjoy! Kim's 1st Rebuilding Chelsea article: thetransferflow.com/p/the-chelsea-rebuild-part-1-9fbb Subscribe to our FREE newsletter: https://www.thetransferflow.com/subscribe Join Variance Betting: https://www.thetransferflow.com/upgrade Follow us on our Socials: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe1WTKOt7byrELQcGRSzu1Q X: https://x.com/TheTransferFlow Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thetransferflow.bsky.social Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetransferflow/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@transferflowpodcast Timestamps: 00:00 - Intro 00:45 - Kim’s incredible fact 01:41 - A large group of 70th percentile players 02:25 - Making the Champions League + PSR nonsense 03:50 - Squad size and selling players 04:42 - Chelsea need to sell 10/15 players this summer 05:28 - Overspending on average players 07:00 - Large change in play style + xG chart 08:06 - Able to pick the right striker/LW 08:52 - What about the guys you can’t move? 10:17 - Unknowns surrounding club leadership + world financial state 11:15 - Utilizing Strasbourg 11:53 - What should their philosophy be? 12:13 - Finding a better striker than Delap? 12:41 - Giving young players a chance? 12:59 - Nicholas Jackson as your #1 striker? 13:47 - Delap was a smart move? 14:42 - Buying 2 world-class players - Starting with LW 15:19 - Mike Maignan as their GK + Rodrygo? 16:10 - Xavi Simmons to help Cole Palmer? 17:32 - Allows Enzo to not play as an attacking mid 18:24 - A 2-deep squad is necessary 18:43 - Jamie Gittens and buying unfinished players 20:33 - Liverpool set the LW market 21:28 - Quenda and Tyrique George 21:54 - Strasbourg and Gettier cases 23:06 - Too many players + Overpaying for them 23:50 - Why Rodrygo over other names? 25:27 - With their assets can they make an 80-100m move? 26:42 - Kim’s recap and players who can be sold + the Fofana’s 27:20 - Armando Broja’s poor form 28:34 - Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall and Omari Kellyman 29:01 - Carney Chukwuemeka and Lesley Ugochukwu 30:08 - What position for the 2nd World Class player? (GK or CB?) 30:47 - How Robert Sanchez was limiting Chelsea 31:36 - Who should they target? And for how much? 32:44 - James Trafford as an option? 33:45 - City have committed to their rebuild, Chelsea must do the same 34:18 - Do they need another CB? 35:40 - Marc Guehi as an option? 36:20 - Keeping Chalaba? Buying Antonio Silva or Alexsandro Ribeiro? 37:57 - 3 things Chelsea need to do 39:20 - Chelsea have been a bit smarter this summer? But so have other teams 40:22 - Man Down and Variance betting updates 41:00 - Club World Cup modelling and Neel Shelat 42:08 - B-roll - No context icing 44:17 - C-Roll - Muppets are perverts? 46:10 - Patrick Intro Fail + Ted’s song