talkSPORT reports that since taking control of Chelsea Football Club in 2022, BlueCo has invested relentlessly. Chelsea has spent nearly £2 billion in the transfer market since the takeover, and among the many players brought in there have been both successes and failures.
6. Jørgensen – £20.7 million
Jørgensen joined Chelsea from Villarreal in 2024, but the goalkeeper failed to seize the chance to establish himself as Chelsea's number one in competition with the sometimes erratic Robert Sánchez.
The Dane played in all but one of Chelsea's 2024/25 Europa Conference League matches, but he made only 11 Premier League appearances over two seasons.
Jørgensen made a serious error against PSG in the Champions League last season, passing the ball directly to Barcola, who chipped it over him to score.
This happened in the first leg of the Round of 16 with the score at 2-2. Chelsea lost that night 5-2 and went out 8-2 on aggregate, a result that summed up their poor season.
He made another big mistake against Aston Villa, letting a shot from Asensio slip through his hands in the 89th minute, which led to a 1-2 loss. Jørgensen kept only one clean sheet in his 11 Premier League appearances.
Including him on this list might seem harsh, but the 24-year-old has never proven to be a reliable goalkeeper and has never performed well enough to be part of the club's long-term plans.
Jørgensen is currently on loan at sister club Strasbourg and will return at the end of this season, when he will compete with the experienced Wisdom Amey and the rising star Mike Penders, both of whom are better options.
5. Felix – £42.6 million
Chelsea should have seen the warning signs when Felix was sent off just 58 minutes into his Premier League debut and scored only 4 goals in 20 appearances during his loan spell from Atletico Madrid in the 2022/23 season.
However, the West London club chose to sign him permanently in 2024, and the Portuguese forward disappointed once again.
Felix, once the fifth most expensive transfer in history at £113 million from Benfica to Atletico Madrid, started only 3 league games and was wasteful in front of goal.
Less than six months after rejoining Chelsea, he was loaned to Milan and then sold to Al Nassr FC at the end of the season.
The 2019 Golden Boy winner is a technically gifted player who was expected to become a global superstar, but he rarely showed his true ability in a Chelsea shirt.
Chelsea's decision to re-sign Felix was questionable, to say the least, and they must regret not foreseeing his inconsistent and disappointing second spell, which was avoidable.
4. Mudryk – £90 million
Arsenal seemed poised to sign Ukrainian winger Mudryk in the 2023 winter transfer window, but Chelsea ultimately struck a deal with Shakhtar Donetsk.
He joined midway through a season in which almost no Chelsea player performed well. He provided two assists but did not score.
Mudryk eventually scored his first goal that October, but the long goal drought that followed left Chelsea with no convincing justification for a transfer fee of around £90 million.
In December 2024, the 25-year-old was provisionally suspended after failing a drug test, and he will not return to action until his case is resolved in early 2026.
This means Mudryk will be unable to play professional football for about a year and a half, which cost him the chance to show improvement and justify Chelsea's massive investment.
Even so, given the money involved, his record of 10 goals and 11 assists in 73 appearances across all competitions before the suspension was far from enough for such an expensive attacking player.
3. Aubameyang – £12 million
Given Aubameyang's 68 Premier League goals in 128 appearances for Arsenal, signing him seemed relatively shrewd, as he added experience to a Chelsea side whose average age was falling.
The striker had also worked with then-Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel at Dortmund. He made his debut in Tuchel's last match in charge, a Champions League game in which Chelsea suffered a shock 0-1 defeat to Dinamo Zagreb.
Aubameyang then scored three goals in three consecutive games, but those were the only goals he scored for the club.
Graham Potter then gave him limited playing time and even left the Gabonese star out of the 25-man Champions League knockout stage squad.
Aubameyang scored only one Premier League goal for Chelsea, the worst league return of his career, having previously reached peaks of 19, 31, and 22 goals in France, Germany, and England, respectively.
If Tuchel had stayed at Chelsea, Aubameyang might have rediscovered the form he showed at Arsenal, but hindsight is always 20/20.
Ultimately, he joined a long list of strikers, including Morata, Falcao, and Higuaín, who arrived at Stamford Bridge with huge reputations but performed far below expectations.
2. Garnacho – £40 million
In June 2025, Garnacho angered Man United fans by posting a photo on social media of himself wearing an Aston Villa shirt with Rashford's name on the back.
He had previously fallen out of favor with Amorim and been told to find a new club, which turned out to be United's Premier League rival, Chelsea.
With only one goal in 24 league appearances, Garnacho was one of the most frustrating players to wear the royal blue shirt.
Days after a poor performance in a 0-1 loss to his former club in April, talkSPORT reported that Chelsea were willing to sell the winger.
Chelsea accepted that the signing had not worked out, but as with Felix, there were warning signs, given how his Man United career ended.
Garnacho had been criticized for his attitude, scored only six league goals in one season, and walked straight down the tunnel after being substituted when Patrick Dorgu was sent off.
He eventually got the move to Chelsea he wanted but was placed on the transfer list less than a year later and joined Villa on loan for the 2026/27 season.
The deal reportedly includes a conditional obligation for Villa to buy him, and the conditions are said to be easy to meet. Even so, he has yet to start a game and has played only 92 minutes in total.
As it stands, Garnacho will return to Chelsea next summer with his future at the club uncertain, and many fans may be happy to see him leave.
1. Wesley Fofana – £75 million
BlueCo's most expensive signing in Chelsea's first transfer window was Wesley Fofana, who arrived just over a year after Leicester City beat the Blues in the FA Cup final.
A knee injury disrupted his debut season, and in 2023/24 he missed every minute with an ACL injury, which takes a long time to recover from.
Yet in his 78 Chelsea appearances, it is difficult to point to a single performance that justified the club signing him as their most expensive defensive acquisition ever.
Wesley Fofana has been part of only 11 Premier League clean sheets in four seasons, the most recent being a 2-0 home win against Brentford in January.
He has not even come off the bench in his last three league games and has done little to convince Xabi Alonso that he deserves to start against Liverpool again soon.
Wesley Fofana clumsily gave away a penalty, which Gakpo converted, moments after Morgan Rogers had given Chelsea the lead.
Then, under the pressure of a penalty shootout, he blasted his penalty over the bar and into the jeering Liverpool fans, confirming his team's elimination.
This sums up his Chelsea career: a highly paid player on £220,000 a week who was given many opportunities but failed to seize them, although injuries have also plagued him.
Wesley Fofana's contract has less than three years remaining, and if the club were to sell him, they are unlikely to recoup anything close to the fee paid to Leicester City in 2022.
He has had little to celebrate off the field either, with several driving offenses, so he will have to do something special to turn his situation around at Chelsea.
dihabeouy
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useless player, I never liked his performance from day one
sibdkprt
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I rightly thought he is a really bad defender.