Chelsea na neman yarjejeniyoyi don kawo Maxence Lacroix, Danny Welbeck, da Jordan Henderson — uku masu ƙwarewa waɗanda shekarunsu suka nuna canje-canje babba daga tsarin sayan ƴan wasa ƙanana da kulob din ya bi tun 2022.

Daga ƙwarewa zuwa ƙuruciya — sa'an nan koma baya?

Sa'ad da BlueCo consortium suka kammala siyan kulob din a 2022, manaja Thomas Tuchel ya yi sauri. Siyan sa na farko mafi muhimmanci shi ne Raheem Sterling — yana ɗan shekara 27 a lokacin — daga Manchester City da kuɗi har £50m tare da ƙarin abin da ya ƙaru. Ɗan wasan ƙafar ƙwallon Ingila ya zo da tarihi na gaskiya: kofuna huɗu na Premier League a City da kuma taimaka wa Ingila ta isa wasan kusa da na ƙarshe na Kofin Duniya 2018.

Siyar ba ta yi nasara ba. Sterling ya yi fama da neman ingancin wasa da lafiya a lokacin da Chelsea ya ƙare a matsayi na 12 a 2022-23, inda ake yi masa rahoton samun fiye da £300,000 a mako. A ƙarshe ya bar kyauta a Janairu 2026.

Kalidou Koulibaly ya zo daga Napoli da £33m, yana ɗaya daga cikin mafi kyawun ma'aikatan tsaro a Turai a lokacin. Dan wasan Senegal ɗan shekara 31 ya tafi bayan kakar wasa ɗaya kawai zuwa Al-Hilal. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, da aka sanya hannu daga Barcelona da £10.3m a ranar ƙarshe ta taga musanya ta bazara — yana ɗan shekara 33 — bai yi mafi kyau ba a ƙarƙashin Graham Potter da Frank Lampard, kuma shi ma ya bar kyauta.

Juyawa zuwa ƙuruciya

Bayan waɗannan sakamako na takaici, Chelsea ya sake fasalin hanyarsa ya fara nufin samun ƙananan 'yan wasa. Sakamakon sun bambanta, amma nasarorin sun kasance a bayyane.

A Janairu 2023, mako biyu kawai bayan ranar haihuwarsa ta 22, Enzo Fernandez ya iso daga Benfica da £107m — rikodin Biritaniya a wancan lokaci. A kakar wasa 2024-25 da 2025-26, mai tsakiya na Argentina ya rika bayar da taimako 24 a duk gasar — ciki har da Club World Cup — yana bayan Bruno Fernandes da Mohamed Salah kawai a tsakanin 'yan wasan Premier League a wannan nau'in.

Watanni bakwai bayan haka, Moises Caicedo ya bi daga Brighton da £100m, tare da damar kaiwa £115m. Ɗan tsakiya na Ecuador ya yi farawa a hankali amma daga baya ya zama ɗaya daga cikin mafi tasirin 'yan tsakiya na tsaro a Premier League, yana kammala kakar wasa ta ƙarshe tare da rikodin interceptions a ligan, 59 — daidai da James Garner na Everton.

Cole Palmer ya zo daga Manchester City da farko £40m a Satumba 2023, shi ma yana ɗan shekara 21. Ya zama mafi yawan zura kwallo na Chelsea a kakarsa ta farko kuma tun daga lokacin ya zura kwallaye 47 a Premier League — sai Erling Haaland (76), Mohamed Salah (54), da Ollie Watkins (51) kawai suka fi shi a wannan lokaci ɗaya.

Amma ga kowane nasara akwai gazawa mai tsada. Mykhailo Mudryk ya kai har £89m daga Shakhtar Donetsk yana ɗan shekara 22 kuma ya kasance a wajen filin wasa na sama da watanni 18 bayan sakamakon da ya saba a gwajin yau da kullum na doping a Disamba 2024. Football Association ta ba shi hukunci na shekaru huɗu; ɗan wasan Ukraine ya shigar da kara zuwa Court of Arbitration for Sport. Joao Felix, wanda aka sanya hannu na dindindin da kimanin £45m, ya zura ƙwallo ɗaya a wasanni 12 na Premier League kafin a sayar da shi Al-Nassr. Wesley Fofana, wanda aka saya daga Leicester da kusan £70m yana ɗan shekara 21, ya yi yawancin lokacinsa a yammacin London a rumfar marasa lafiya.

Tsari na rashin ɗorewa

A cikin kakar wasa huɗu tun siyarwar, matsayin Chelsea a Premier League sun karanta haka: 12, sannan 6, sannan 4, sannan 10. Kulob ɗin ya ci kofuna biyu — Conference League da Club World Cup — amma masu kulob da manyan manufofi za su ji an ci amana a ra'ayinsu.

Haɗin matasa da ƙwarewa na Alonso

Sabon manaja Xabi Alonso yana da tarihi na haɗa ƙungiyoyin shekaru daban-daban. A Bayer Leverkusen, ya sanya hannu kan 'yan wasa huɗu da suka wuce shekara 27 a kakar 2023-24 kaɗai — ciki har da Granit Xhaka da Alejandro Grimaldo, waɗanda suka taka muhimmiyar rawa a cin gasar Bundesliga.

Mai kulob Behdad Eghbali ya bayyana a fili cewa Chelsea za ta ƙara ƙwarewa ga abin da ya kira ƙarfin matasan 'yan wasa — ciki har da Cole Palmer, Moises Caicedo, da Levi Colwill. Matakan neman Welbeck, ɗan shekara 35, da Henderson, ɗan shekara 36, suna nuna wannan manufar kai tsaye. Chelsea sun kuma yi ƙoƙarin kawo Xhaka, ɗan shekara 33, daga Sunderland, amma Black Cats sun ƙi sayar da kyaftin ɗin Switzerland.

Siyan Lacroix, ɗan shekara 26, daga Crystal Palace da £52m zai kasance mafi girman zuba hannun jari na kulob ɗin a ɗan wasa na wannan shekaru tsawon shekaru biyu aƙalla. Ɗan tsaro na Faransa yana kawo shirye-shiren Premier League nan take — ingancin da Alonso ya bayyana yana ɗauka a matsayin fifiko.

Shigowa Welbeck mai yiyuwa zai ba Chelsea yalwar zaɓuɓɓuka na kai hari a kakar da ba ta da wasannin Turai. Duk da haka, zai zama labari mara daɗi ga Liam Delap — wanda ake ɗauka ɗaya daga cikin mafi ban sha'awa ƙananan masu zura kwallo a Premier League sa'ad da ya shiga daga Ipswich Town bara — da kuma Emmanuel Emegha. Nicolas Jackson, a gefe guda, yana buɗe don tafiya. Alonso yana gina tawagar bisa sharuɗɗansa: ƙwarewa, ƙarfin hali, da tushe na ingantawa a kan sanya kasa mai takaici na 10 a kakar da ta gabata.