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Five players Chelsea must sell in January

By Ryan Willox

LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 15: Antonio Conte, Manager of Chelsea gives his team instructions during the Premier League match between Chelsea and Leicester City at Stamford Bridge on October 15, 2016 in London, England. (Photo by Shaun Botterill/Getty Images)
LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 15: Antonio Conte, Manager of Chelsea gives his team instructions during the Premier League match between Chelsea and Leicester City at Stamford Bridge on October 15, 2016 in London, England. (Photo by Shaun Botterill/Getty Images) /
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LONDON, ENGLAND – MARCH 19 : Loic Remy of Chelsea during the Barclays Premier League match between Chelsea and West Ham United at Stamford Bridge on March 19, 2016 in London, England. (Photo by Catherine Ivill – AMA/Getty Images)
LONDON, ENGLAND – MARCH 19 : Loic Remy of Chelsea during the Barclays Premier League match between Chelsea and West Ham United at Stamford Bridge on March 19, 2016 in London, England. (Photo by Catherine Ivill – AMA/Getty Images) /

2. Loic Remy

The signing of Loic Remy had the feeling of a smaller scale echo of Chelsea’s capture of Fernando Torres.

They bought him because they could, and they thought he would make an immediate impact.

Remy arrived in England courtesy of a contentious transfer from Marseille to Queen’s Park Rangers with Newcastle United believing they had submitted a successful bid in the January 2013 transfer window.

Bizarrely QPR then loaned Remy to the Magpies at the start of the next season before Chelsea snapped him up before deadline day in 2014.

To the layman, it seemed a peculiar signing.

Maybe the intention was to have him compete with Diego Costa for the starting striker slot? Maybe the thought was he would learn from the returning Didier Drogba and develop into a similar player?

Whatever the reason for Mourinho  acquiring a third striker in the same mould that off-season, Remy’s transfer didn’t pan out.

Currently injured in a loan spell at Crystal Palace, Remy is another of those players, like Christian Atsu, the Blues seemingly don’t know what to do with.

Palace have an option to buy, but Chelsea would surely prefer to unload the player in January if there was any possibility of that happening.

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