Gilmour to Gallagher: Chelsea academy players sold in Boehly era for £208m | Chelsea

Billy Gilmour to Brighton, £9m, September 2022 Gilmour made his Chelsea debut under Frank Lampard in 2019, two years after joining the under-18s. The Scotland international made 58 appearances in his first two seasons at Brighton, including 22 for Chelsea. He tweeted upon leaving the club: “Once a blue, always a blue.”

Ruben Loftus-Cheek, £15m, Milan, June 2023 Loftus-Cheek enjoyed an impressive first season at Milan after leaving Chelsea, where he spent 19 years, including loans to Crystal Palace and Fulham. The midfielder made 155 appearances for the club, including eight Premier League seasons, and scored 13 goals. He scored 10 goals in 40 Milan appearances.

Mason Mount, £55m, Manchester United, July 2023 Mount began training at Chelsea at the age of six and made his first-team debut at 20. He left Stamford Bridge with 27 Premier League goals and a Champions League trophy. In an Instagram post, he said: “I wanted to tell you directly how grateful I am for all your support over the last 18 years.” The midfielder, now 25, will be looking to prove himself at Manchester United after a disappointing season in which he was injured for more than four months.

Callum Hudson-Odoi, £5m, Nottingham Forest, September 2023 Hudson-Odoi made his Chelsea debut in 2018 after joining the academy at the age of seven in 2007 and scored 16 goals in 126 games before making the “emotional” decision to leave in 2023. The forward scored eight goals in his first season at Forest, three of which came in their final three games of the season.

Omari Hutchinson, £22m, Ipswich, June 2024 Hutchinson left Chelsea’s academy at eight and played for Charlton and Arsenal before returning in 2022. He played regularly for Chelsea’s under-21s, but his only two first-team appearances came as a substitute against Manchester City in January 2023 – one in the league, one in the FA Cup – before joining Ipswich on loan at the start of the following season. After helping them win promotion, he signed a permanent deal.

Ian Maatsen, £37.5m, Aston Villa, June 2024 Maatsen joined PSV’s academy in 2018 and made his debut a year later, but three loans in League One and the Championship followed. Then, after 201 minutes of Premier League football with Chelsea, he was loaned to Borussia Dortmund last January, where he impressed as they reached the Champions League final.

Lewis Hall, £28m, Newcastle, July 2024 Hall joined as an under-eight and in January 2022 became the youngest player to start an FA Cup match for Chelsea. A gifted midfielder and left-back, the first of his nine league appearances for the club came at Newcastle the following campaign. He then went on loan to St James’ Park before making the move permanent this summer.

Michael Golding, £4m, Leicester, July 2024 Golding spent six years in Chelsea’s youth system and signed his first professional contract in July 2023. The teenage midfielder’s only game in charge came in the FA Cup against Preston last January and he joined Leicester saying he was looking forward to being coached by Steve Cooper because of his new manager’s “track record of working with young players”.

Conor Gallagher, £34m, Atlético Madrid, August 2024: After loans at Charlton, Swansea, West Brom and Crystal Palace, Gallagher earned the trust of Thomas Tuchel to make his Chelsea debut in August 2022; a year later he captained his boyhood club for the first time. The England international, who was honoured by fans with a tifo, has said he is “so grateful for the supporters” but with a year left on his contract and no agreement on an extension in sight, he has departed for La Liga.

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Trevoh Chalobah The defender followed in his brother Nathaniel’s footsteps to represent Chelsea, scoring on his Premier League debut against Crystal Palace in August 2021. He has started the last five games of Mauricio Pochettino’s reign – all victories – but was surprisingly left out of the pre-season tour and feels he has been forced out of the club.

Armando Broja The Albanian striker broke through after loans at Vitesse and Southampton, signing a second senior contract in September 2022. Chairman Todd Boehly described him at the time as “a big part of our plans for the future”. But an anterior cruciate ligament injury late that year hampered his development. He was loaned out to Fulham in February and is set to join Ipswich on a season-long deal.