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Chelsea are in the phase of the transfer window where they are focusing at least as much on outgoing as they are on incoming players, though the Blues remain linked to a few high-profile targets like Napoli star striker Victor Osimhen. Meanwhile, Chelsea have already sent one star striker to Napoli in Romelu Lukaku, who will be moving to Serie A permanently again for a fee exceeding 30 million euros. While Chelsea could also send young attacking midfielder Carney Chukwuemeka to the 2022/23 Serie A champions, their more pressing concern is finding a landing spot for another striker with no future at the club, in addition to Lukaku. That player would be Armando Broja, who has already been on two unsuccessful loan spells within the Premier League to Southampton and Fulham. The loan t...

Addressing the topic of a player's value is extremely difficult in world football, especially when comparing across positions and even ascribing value to a player specific to the team they play for. One way to define "value" is an equivalence to importance. That is to say, a player is valuable because he is important to his team, and the "Most Valuable Player", which is the phrasing Serie A uses for its annual award in a hearken to American sports, is therefore the player who helped his team the most. But in this article ,I'd like to discuss value in a less nebulous but equally challenging realm, which is a player's financial value on the transfer market in a perfect vacuum in which leverage, contract, and overall situation are taken out. Let's take a look at the most valuable pla...

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