Chelsea now ready to sell £90,000-a-week Chelsea star for just £17m
According to reports, Chelsea is reportedly ready to sell Ben Chilwell and another defender in 2025 as Enzo Maresca tries to reduce his team in an effort to win the Premier League.
Italy requesting a defender from Chelsea
Benoit Badiashile, a French defender who hasn’t played a minute of Premier League football this season, is the embodiment of it. The Frenchman, who left Monaco with high reviews, was signed to cover and compete for academy graduate Levi Colwill.
“Badiashile is excellent. He is very strong in the air and in the duels. He can read the game because he is intelligent. He is a very good defender on the floor and in the air. I do not have any doubts that he will succeed in the Premier League,” former Monaco coach Nelson Caldaira told Sky Sports. “He is the complete defender.”
However, having failed to break into the first team, and with Chelsea seemingly in the market for another left-sided defender, the French international is now surplus to requirements.
Still just 23-years-old, Badiashile still has a mammoth six years to run on his £90,000 a week deal in west London, but reports in Italy suggest Chelsea are ready to let him leave in the coming year.
They suggest that he has caught the eye of reigning champions Inter Milan, and that he could be available for just €20m (£16.7m) next summer, which would be just half of what Chelsea shelled out to bring him to London 18 months ago.
With game time limited at Stamford Bridge, a departure may well be what the Frenchman needs to re-ignite his stalling career.