Chelsea could save £700,000-a-week by selling six 'flops'

Chelsea always seem to have about ten million players at once, don’t they?

Whether it’s the legacy of botched transfer windows or the logjam created by their infamous loan system, you always get the feeling that it’s absolute carnage at Cobham when every pre-season rolls around.

Every man and their dog returning from loan and what feels like 100 vastly talented youngsters knocking on the door of the first-team must mean that Thomas Tuchel has the mother of all selection headaches.

And that often means that the two-time Champions League winners have more work to do than your average club when it comes to synchronising their squad ahead of each new season.

Yes, you can keep brushing certain organisational problems under the carpet by sending squad players out on loan in an endless cycle, but sometimes the best course of action is to simply part ways.

And as the Blues march into their second full campaign with Tuchel in the dugout, there’s good reason to think that they could really benefit from clearing out some of the deadwood at Stamford Bridge.

Besides, when Chelsea‘s first-team squad for their recent pre-season tour was revealed, there were more than a few names who cropped up and provoked the response: ‘wait, are they still at the club?’

So much so, in fact, that The Sun have been able to identify six ‘flops’ that would save Chelsea a staggering £700,000-a-week in wages if they decided to call time on their spell in west London this summer.

Throw in the fact that the sextet of Blues outsiders played just 90 games combined last season and it’s not presumptuous to suggest that a divorce between club and player might be the best course of action for both parties.

So, as Chelsea look to splash the cash on further major