CHELSEA fans were chanting absent hero Conor Gallagher’s name during the Blues’ clash with Manchester City today.
Disgruntled fans are upset with the way the academy product-turned-England midfielder has been treated over the summer.
The chants took place within earshot of Todd Boehly, who is in attendance for the season opener.
Gallagher’s move looked to Atletico Madrid looked to be imminent but he has now been left in limbo.
Chelsea initially believed his £34million move to Atletico was independent of moves for Samu Omorodion and Joao Felix.
But Atletico threatened to pull the move for Gallagher, 24, if his deal was not counted as part of a swap transfer.
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Gallagher was in Madrid for a number of days and met directors of the club as well as manager Diego Simeone, who personally assured him that the move would go through.
But as of now, the transfer has not happened, and Gallagher has returned to training with his boyhood club.
He had previously been banned from using the club’s first-team facilities as Chelsea looked to force him into a move.
He is the latest victim of the club’s policy to sell academy graduates.
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That’s because the players can be listed as pure profit under Chelsea’s profit and sustainability rulings.
Trevoh Chalobah is in the same position, having been left out of the club’s pre-season squad and told to find a new club.
Gallagher, Romelu Lukaku and Armando Broja were all left out of the club’s squad list on the back of Chelsea’s matchday programme today.
Chalobah was included in the squad, however.
Every Chelsea signing under Todd Boehly
Here is a list of all Chelsea’s signings under Todd Boehly…
- Raheem Sterling – £50m
- Kalidou Koulibaly £33m
- Gabriel Slonina – £8m
- Carney Chukweumeka – £20m
- Marc Cucurella – £57.5m
- Cesare Casadei – £13.3m
- Wesley Fofana – £70m
- Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang – £10.3m
- Denis Zakaria – £2.7m (Loan fee)
- David Datro Fofana – £10.6m
- Benoit Badiashile – £33.7m
- Andrey Santos – £11.1m
- Joao Felix – £9.7m (Loan fee)
- Mykhailo Mudryk – £62m
- Noni Madueke – £30m
- Malo Gusto – £26.75m
- Enzo Fernandez – £107.8m
- Christopher Nkunku – £52m
- Diego Moreira – FREE
- Nicolas Jackson – £31.5m
- Angelo Gabriel – £13m
- Lesley Ugochukwu – £23.3m
- Axel Disasi – £38.9m
- Robert Sanchez – £20m
- Moises Caicedo – £100m
- Romeo Lavia – £53.2m
- Deivid Washington – £13.7m
- Cole Palmer – £40.1m
- Djordje Petrovic – £13.6m
- Tosin Adarabioyo – FREE
- Marc Guiu – £5.1m
- Caleb Wiley – £8.63m
- Renato Veiga – £12m
- Aarón Anselmino – £14m
- Omari Kellyman – £19.2m
- Filip Jorgensen – £21m
- Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall – £30.2m
- Pedro Neto – £54m
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
