After introducing Harto, Chelsea needed to lose weight on the team's lineup, and the club's official website removed the information of the 9 players but did not clarify their future.
This summer, Chelsea was very active in the transfer market. Harto is their latest player to be introduced, and he has also become the 39th player to the Blues in the past four years. Among the nine players removed were Sterling and Chilville, both of whom were loaned out. Forward Broya and midfielder Ugo Chuku, who are expected to transfer to Burnley, will no longer appear on Chelsea's official website this summer, and Gilchrist, trained by the Blues youth training camp, will also be removed.
In fact, except for Broya and Gilchrist trained by Chelsea's youth training camp, the other seven players removed from the official website spent a total of 200 million pounds. In addition to Sterling and Chilville, these players include Di Sasi, Chuk Umeka, Vega and David Fofana. Interestingly, despite facing a maximum 4-year ban on taking banned drugs, Ukrainian winger Muderick still appears on the Blues' official website.