Not sure about that - Chelsea's sell on clause (if they have one) could carry on to give them a percentage of our sell on. There was quite a discussion about how far sell on clauses go on for on here a few weeks ago, and I'm pretty sure the conclusion was that it all boils down to what conditions were put in the contract.Transfermarkt believe that we paid about £7m for him. Say Chelsea have a 30% sell-on, that is normally on the profit. So about £1.5m to Chelsea from the £5m profit.
But what if we, in order for Napoli to get him so cheap, had a 50% sell-on clause with this deal?
So hypothetically, if Napoli sold him to Milan for £40m in 2027, we could get another £14m from the profits and limit the amount Chelsea get from the sale this summer. Total profit on WBG would be £17.5m which would be pretty good for a player rejected by our new manager.
It’s a gamble for sure, you’d just need a Chairman who is good at that sort of thing to pull it off.
Effectively, we’d be getting rid of Chelsea’s opportunity to make money on is sale and replacing with ours in the future. Bad news for Chelsea.