Chelsea bought a lot of players last season and with the way things have been going this summer, it seems they want a new era of young players and I can understand why they’re allowing their old players with 1-2 years contract to leave. They have a plan and they waiting for the outgoings before they can reinforce the team. For you it might not look like they’re serious but they have their targets, once they can finish with the players leaving, I think they’ll begin to buy their targets.
What's the point of spending a lot of money to end in the other half of the table?
They spent +€600m on new players last season and they ended up with huge deficit.
This season they got Nkunku from Leipzig for the moment while letting Havertz, Kovacic going to their main opponents and Koulibaly, Mendy and Kante to Saudi Arabia teams. There's others who are rumoured to leave the club in this transfer window. Replacing these players while keeping good substitutes in case of injuries or red cards will not be that easy at all..