Chelsea prepared to sell five senior players to fund Lukaku bid

Chelsea are prepared to sell as many as five senior players this summer.

The Blues will attempt to sell Tammy Abraham plus four other stars to help find a transfer move for Romelu Lukaku, says the Sunday World.

Abramovich is ‘eager’ to lure Lukaku back to west London from Inter Milan as he is one of his ‘favourite strikers’.

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And they are allegedly ready to raise the funds to do that by offloading a number of big names.

Today’s report states the sales of Kepa Arrizabalaga, Callum Hudson-Odoi, Ross Barkley, Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Abraham will ‘likely to raise a healthy sum that will all be ploughed back into Tuchel’s transfer kitty’ this summer.

Kepa was dropped earlier this year and the club would seem happy to recoup as much money back as possible on the Spaniard.

Loftus-Cheek has spent the past season on-loan at Fulham while Barkley was with Aston Villa on a similar deal.