Chelsea: New owners facing instant £100m transfer bill to replace Antonio Rudiger and Andreas Christensen

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Chelsea’s new owners will have to pay in the region of £3billion to get the keys to Stamford Bridge. And no sooner than they walk through the door, they will have to get the wallet out again.

That is just to get Thomas Tuchel’s squad back to where it is right now, let alone the money required to turn them into serious challengers to Manchester City and Liverpool.

By conservative estimates, the departures of Antonio Rudiger and Andreas Christensen robs Tuchel of around £100million-worth of talent.

It strips away two thirds of the defence that won them the Champions League last season and breaks up what has undoubtedly been the heart of Tuchel’s success.

In the case of Rudiger, Chelsea will lose one of the three best defenders in the Premier League over the past two years, alongside Virgil van Dijk and Ruben Dias.

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