... and they absolutely chewed him up and spat him out. Chelsea just keep buying random hordes of players, giving them decade long contracts on 250k a week - they're insane. He'd be insane to go there. At least Real Madrid pretend to be interested in the players they buy up, it's just the calibre of player they've got in this generation has led to personality clashes where they turn toxic after losing. Chelsea treat the game as if players are real estate, if they buy so-and-so at least he isn't tearing it up at any imaginable competitor. It's like the only thing they learned from De Bruyne & Salah development was, is that they didn't do it extreme enough.