From taxi to "four-layer bus", what is Chelsea doing?

In the past two seasons, Chelsea's transfer work has involved nearly 100 players, becoming the team with the largest changes in the Premier League lineup.

53 buses, 32-person transactions

2024 summer window, Chelsea built a "four-layer bus" with as many as 53 people. Later, after the efforts of the uniform team, the number of people in the lineup was controlled to 29 people. After the 2025 summer window was closed, Chelsea's first-team lineup was once again controlled to 29. Before that, the signing group led by Lawrence Stewart and Paul Winstanley introduced 9 players and sold 23 players. While achieving lineup upgrades, it also made a profit of 4 million euros.

If the personnel changes in the "Satellite Team" Strasbourg (more than 30 people), Chelsea has achieved personnel changes of more than 100 people in the past two summer windows, which shows the connections of the "Co-directors".

From "taxi" to satellite team, Chelsea leads the trend of the times

Compared with the taxi strategy of the Abu era, Chelsea has now adopted a more advanced satellite team model, and Andre Santos is a typical example of returning after successfully leveling up. At the beginning, Abramovich was worried about the team's future when he left Chelsea. Now it seems that this popular boss can be relieved that the Blues have led the trend of the times in terms of operations.