Victor Moses after his medical at West Ham
Mail Online – When Nathaniel Chalobah signed a season-long loan deal with Serie A club Napoli in the closing hours of the transfer deadline Chelsea’s tally of players on their books but strewn across Europe reached an incredible 33.
That’s three full starting elevens that are surplus to Jose Mourinho’s requirements propping up clubs from as far west as northeastern Turkey, east to the Portuguese coast and north to Edinburgh after the arrival of 19-year-old Scottish forward Islam Feruz at Hibernian.
There are 10 Chelsea players plying their trade within Britain, four in Belgium (including three at Sint-Truidense V.V) and five in Italy, the same amount as at Dutch club Vitesse alone.
Among a total of seven moves in the last 48 hours of the window, Michael Hector and Lucas Piazon joined former Blues player and coach Steve Clarke at Reading, Jeremie Boga went to Ligue 1’s Rennes and Victor Moses joined Alex Song and Nikica Jelavic among West Ham’s big-name additions.
They add to big names such as Juan Cuadrado at Juventus and Mo Salah at Roma to rising stars including Patrick Bamford at Crystal Palace who have been shipped across the continent to have a chance at getting game time.
Chelsea Loan MapPhoto: Mail Online
Some of the players even die-hard Chelsea fans would not recognise if they passed them on the street – Ulises Davila, anyone? Although that wouldn’t happen unless you were crossing the road in Setubal, Portugal, anyway.
Here is the full list of Chelsea’s players who will spend this next non-loan period away from Stamford Bridge.
Juan Cuadrado (winger) – Juventus, Italy
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