Wash The Warehouse, Chelsea Ready To Send Romelu Lukaku Et Al To Saudi Arabia

Striker Romelu Lukaku will be released by Chelsea k Saudi Arabia. (X/@OfficialASRoma)

JAKARTA - Chelsea are planning to wash the warehouse by releasing a number of players. They will be offered to Saudi Arabian clubs, including Romelu striker Lukaku, who is currently on loan by AS Roma.

The club leader who is also one of the owners, Todd Boehly, secretly flew to Saudi Arabia. Not to watch football matches in the Pro Arab League or monitor players, Boehly actually made a business trip. He met with the Director of Football for the Pro League, Michael Emanalo, to discuss the transfer of Chelsea players. Emanalo himself served as Technical Director of the West London club.

Yes, Boehly hopes to sell some players. The reason is, the Blues already have a fat squad with a relatively high salary.

In fact, Chelsea has announced a pre-tax loss of 90 million or approximately 1.7 trillion rupiah. That figure is estimated to increase to 100 million by the end of June 2024.

This makes the club have to let go of a number of players in order to continue to comply with financial rules, especially Profitability and Sustainability Rules.

This makes Boehly feel the need to fly to Saudi Arabia in order to sell the players. Moreover, previously, Chelsea managed to release stars such as NGolo Kante, goalkeeper Edouard Mendy and Kalidou Koulibably who had already played in Saudi Arabia.

According to the plan, Chelsea will release Lukaku and Kepa goalkeeper Arrizabalaga. Both are on the top list of players to be sold.

Lukaku actually wants to be permanent for Roma. However, there is no certainty from this Italian Serie A club to permanently recruit Lukaku.

Chelsea still has Lukaku's contract for the next two years. While the salary reaches 325 thousand every week.

Lukaku has a release clause of 37 million. Roma hopes Chelsea will lower the price of Lukaku so they can buy it. But that big number doesn't mean much to Saudi Arabia's Pro League clubs.

Meanwhile, Real Madrid is still borrowing Kepa. However, Madrid will most likely not make this former Spanish national team goalkeeper permanent.

With a contract that is still 12 months away, Chelsea hopes to sell it. Moreover, Chelsea already has two quite tough goalkeepers, Djardje Petrovic and Robert Sanchez.

Furthermore, Chelsea is ready to send Conor Gallagher, Armando Broja and Trevoh Chalobah to Saudi Arabia.

Gallagher is a young star whose contract will expire next year. However, the club has not renewed its contract, which signals that the 23-year-old player will be sold.

Broja has lost his place in the front sector of Chelsea. In the aftermath, he was loaned to a neighboring club next door, Fulham.

Meanwhile, Chalobah has only played five times because he has been injured. He needs more playing opportunities so that Chelsea will be released.

There are still more players who are ready to be sold by Chelsea. Defender Marc Cucurella has found it difficult to enter the first team so he is ready to pack up leaving Stamford Bridge.

It's just that not all players will be accepted by the Saudi Arabian club. However, Lukaku may be the target because he has already received an offer to play in the Pro League.