Breakin News: Chelsea have made £100million in the last three years from selling players who have made 10 or fewer league appearances for them… Nathan Ake was the latest out of the talent factory

Chelsea have made £100million in the last three years from selling players who have made 10 or fewer league appearances for them… Nathan Ake was the latest out of the talent factory:

Chelsea have in some cases quadrupled their investment on fringe players

Club are clever in how they go about their business through use of loan system

Patrick Bamford did not appear in Premier League for Blues before being sold

Chelsea are in line to spend £125m on a hat-trick of transfers as part of outlay

Chelsea know how to manage the market.

From Mohamed Salah's £39million transfer to Liverpool, for example, they are expected to receive £2.7m because of a clause that allows them 10 per cent of Roma's profit.

Salah did, at least, appear 13 times in the Premier League for Chelsea before being sold to Roma for £12m in 2016. The same cannot be said for several others.

Chelsea received £2.7million from Mohamed Salah's £39m transfer to Liverpool last month

Patrick Bamford was allowed to leave for Middlesbrough in another £6million deal

Since 2014-15, Chelsea have sold £97.4m worth of talent with 10 or fewer league appearances.

With certain add-ons, such as the £4m that can be added to Patrick Bamford's £6m move to Middlesbrough, that can rise to well over £100m.

Bamford did not appear once in the Premier League for the Blues before being sold. He was not the only one.

Seven players sold in the last three seasons by Chelsea left with zero league appearances to their name for the champions. That includes Christian Atsu (sold to Newcastle United for £6.2m), Papy Djilobodji (Sunderland, £8m) and Thorgan Hazard (Borussia Monchengladbach, £6m).

Chelsea failed to secure Dominic Solanke to a new deal but received a compensation fee

Chelsea's technical director Michael Emenalo has been astute with the use of the loan system

CHELSEA'S SALES SINCE 2015 (£335.25M) 

2017-18

NATHAN AKE – £20m (7 league appearances)

JUAN CUADRADO – £17.3m (13)

ASMIR BEGOVIC – £10m (19)

BERTRAND TRAORE – £8.8m (10)

DOMINIC SOLANKE – £3m TBC (0)

CHRISTIAN ATSU – £6.2m (0)

Total: £65.3million

2016-17

STIPE PERICA – £3.4m (0)

MOHAMED SALAH – £12m (13)

PAPY DJILOBODJI – £8m (0)

MARKO MARIN – £3m (6)

OSCAR – £60m (131)

PATRICK BAMFORD – £6m (0)

Total: £92.4million 

2015-16

GAEL KAKUTA – £2.5m (6)

PETR CECH – £10m (333)

JOSH McEACHRAN – £750,000 (11)

FILIPE LUIS – £11.1m (15)

ORIOL ROMEU – £5m (22)

RAMIRES – £25m (160)

Total: £54.35million

2014-15

DAVID LUIZ – £50m (81 in first spell)

DEMBA BA – £4.7m (33)

PATRICK VAN AANHOLT – £1.5m (2)

ROMELU LUKAKU – £28m (10)

GEORGE SAVILLE – £1m (0)

RYAN BERTRAND – £10m (28)

ANDRE SCHURRLE – £22m (44)

THORGAN HAZARD – £6m (0)

Total: £123.2million