Chelsea transfers: The 32 unwanted players Blues have sold since 2014 – for nearly £500m!

CHELSEA are notoriously canny in the transfer market, with the Blues making nearly £500million in profit over the past three-and-a-half years.

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Chelsea have made nearly £500m from selling players since 2014

Diego Costa is the latest star to wave goodbye to Stamford Bridge, with Chelsea agreeing to sell the Spanish striker to Atletico Madrid for £53m.

This is an astonishing figure considering the frontman is surplus to requirements in Antonio Conte’s squad, but the Blues have made a habit of getting paid over the odds for unwanted players.

Costa is by no means the only player who has been discarded by in recent seasons, with 31 others departing since January 2014 – with the majority earning the Blues a hefty chunk in transfer fees.

While Roman Abramovich may be kicking himself over the relatively cheap sales of Romelu Lukaku and Kevin De Bruyne, some of these figures are truly outrageous…

Scroll through the gallery above to see which players Chelsea have sold since January 2014, and for how much.

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