As always, the retained and released lists may be official (as of May 21 at least), but most contracts actually run through the end of June, so the players who are on the released list are still technically Chelsea players until June 30. Plus, any player released could always come back on a new contract, or, as in the case of Hilario two years ago, a new role.
It’s actually a very light released list from the club with the departures of loanees Pato and Falcao already handled separately. These lists concern themselves only with actual contracted players.
Released
Amelia, Marco
Musonda, Tika Kafusha
Wright, Kevin
Amelia had spoken of his desire to stay; I suspect if that were to happen, he’d stay in a coaching role in a transition similar to the one made by the aforementioned Hilario. Tika Musonda (older brother of Charly) and Kevin Wright were two of the more obscure prospects in the system. The former had already followed his brother down to Real Betis while the latter will look to catch in the lower divisions.Always a dependable and capable performer, there’ll be no shortage of interest in him. Had an impressive trial at Sheff Wed already
On the retained list, the good news are the contract offers to several players. We already knew about John Terry, but the club have finally moved to tender offers to Ola Aina and John Swift as well. Wingers Alex Kiwomya and Reece Mitchell have also received offers.
UPDATE: as pointed out in the comments, Mohamed Salah is only on the retained list. His situation remains … complicated … with Fiorentina appealing over his loan and Roma once claiming that they already signed him. Oh joy…
The full list of contracted players and scholars is as follows:
CONTRACT PLAYERS
Abraham, Tammy
Aina, Temitayo Olufisayo Olaoluwa (Offer)
Ake, Nathan Benjamin
Ali, Mukhtar Abdullahi
Angban, Bekanty Victorien
Azpilicueta Tanco, Cesar
Baba, Abdul Rahman
Baker, Lewis Renard
Bamford, Patrick James
Beeney, Mitchell Ryan
Begovic, Asmir
Blackman, Jamal Clint-Ross
Boga, Jeremie
Borges da Silva, Willian
Brown, Isiah Jay
Cahill, Gary James
Chalobah, Nathaniel Nyakie
Christensen, Andreas Bodtker
Christie-Davies, Isaac David
Clarke-Salter, Jake-Liam
Colkett, Charlie
Collins, Bradley Ray
Conroy, Dion John
Courtois, Thibaut
Cuadrado Bello, Juan Guillermo
Cuevas Jara, Cristian Alejandro
Da Silva Costa, Diego
Dabo, Sheik Mohamed Fankaty
Dasilva, Jay Rhys
Davey, Alex James
De Souza, Nathan Allan
Delac, Matej
Djilobodji, El Hadji Papy Mison
Dos Santos Emboaba, Oscar
Fabregas Soler, Francesc
Feruz, Islam
Grant, Joshua
Hazard, Eden
Hector, Michael Anthony James
Houghton, Jordan
Ivanovic, Branislav
Kalas, Tomas
Kane, Todd Arthur Lucien
Kiwomya, Andrew Alexander (Offer)
Loftus Cheek, Ruben
Maddox, Jacob
Marin, Marko
Matic, Nemanja
Miazga, Matthew
Mikel, John Obi
Mitchell, Reece Steven (Offer)
Moses, Victor
Mount, Mason
Muheim, Miro Max Maria
Musonda, Charles
Nunes Nascimento, Robert Kenedy
Oliveira Dos Santos, Wallace
Omeruo, Kenneth
Palmer, Kasey Remel
Pantic, Danilo
Pasalic, Mario
Perica, Stipe
Piazon, Lucas Domingues
Quintero Quintero, Josimar Aldair
Remy, Loic
Rodriguez Gonzalez, Jhoao Leandro
Rodriguez Ledesma, Pedro Eliezer
Salah, Mohamed
Sammut, Ruben
Scott, Kyle
Solanke-Mitchell, Dominic Ayodele
Suljic, Ali
Swift, John David (Offer)
Terry, John George (Offer)
Thompson, Jared
Tomori, Fikayo
Traore, Bertrand
Twasam, Christian Atsu
Ugbo, Ike
Van Ginkel, Wulfert Cornelius
Wakefield, Charlie Mark
Zouma, Kurt HappyScholars
Baxter, Nathan
Chalobah, Trevoh Tom
Colley, Joseph
Dasilva, Cole Perry
Hinckson-Mars, Malakai Daylan
McCormick, Luke
Nartey, Richard Nicos Tettey
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