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Just when you thought Chelsea were done, they come from nowhere and continue to push for yet more players. Even with the expected arrival of Cole Palmer coming in late into the summer, there is room for Todd Boehly and Co to make another power-play.
The Blues are finishing big just like they started it and haven't been caught napping at the wheel at all. Having spent most of the first half of the window selling first team stars to rivals, they are now filling the squad to the brim with talented youngsters aimed at complimenting the Cobham kids coming through.
Even on deadline day, it seems like the work is set to continue for the future with Fabrizio Romano reporting that another South American talent is on the way.
He writes: “Chelsea have presented formal bid to Corinthians for 2005 born top talent Gabriel Moscardo. Bid already discussed between clubs. Told Corinthians now want €25m to sell Moscardo and make it club record sale. It’d be a signing for the future.”
The deal would come it at £21million ($27m) for that price. The 17-year-old midfielder has just ten senior appearances to his name but has now well and truly broken into the first team. It appears that he could be set to join fellow Brazilian talent Andrey Santos in the Chelsea talent factory.
Romano later added: "17 yo midfielder would stay on loan at Corinthians until June. Corinthians currently asking for higher fee to make it happen."
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football.london says: Another youngster, another day, what is the long-term thinking here? Even for BlueCo and the multi-club model it is hard to see the sustainability of farming up everyone for such prices. At £20million ($27m) there is some risk that he simply doesn't progress the way the club want him to and never truly brings in the fees desired.
It's a risk to keep doing these sorts of trades with only one source of controlled development centre out of Chelsea's first team as well. Academy performances appear to mean less and less in terms of ones progression into the senior side - just ask Cesare Casadei and Lewis Hall - while the RC Strasbourg experiment is still in its early days.
Moscardo is certainly a talented player and highly thought of within the club, their identification of these players is unquestioned, but the issues arise when it comes to actually pushing them into the squad. These problems will begin to show themselves more and more in the coming years and Moscardo is currently at the end of an already long list of names looking to do the same.
Another case of player trading to boost revenue has also emerged at the same time. One talented teenager on the way in and a former player destined to be a club great on the way out. Fulham are still exploring a deal to bring in Callum Hudson-Odoi.
The 22-year-old somehow hasn't managed to find a new club despite the £8million ($10m) asking price being tiny for a player of his undoubted quality. With the Blues keen to offload him at this stage of his career rather than continue a development process that stalled long ago, the sizeable sell-on clause they are after makes perfect sense given the player Hudson-Odoi still hopes to be.
football.london says: For all the missed opportunties to create genuinely world-class players, Hudson-Odoi is one of the biggest regrets Chelsea can have. He was one of the best talents in the academy during a period of incredible success for the side. He lead the way in a group including Reece James, Mason Mount, Levi Colwill and Conor Gallagher.
If Chelsea had found a way to help Hudson-Odoi reach his peak then the need to sign such vast swathes of attacking players that feature on the right would be largely diminished. As it stands, nobody is quite sure what he is or just how good he can still be amid regret over a partnership between him and James that could have been perfect.
It's a massive shame and partially comes down to multiple failures from the previous regime not so much, for once, the current group. If he hadn't been injured towards the end of the 2018/19 season then who knows how things could have moved forward. As it stands Chelsea are getting a miniscule fee for a player that could go on to be worth in well in advance of £55million ($69m) in the modern market before you know it.
The time for regretting this has already past but it'll be hard to watch Hudson-Odoi grow away from SW6 for sure.