Why £200,000 a week Chelsea star’s return to former club is a non-starter despite new rumour | OneFootball

We’re hearing a flurry of rumours about many players at Chelsea potentially leaving this January, including some which have really come from nowhere.

But one person who has been on sale since the summer but still is picking up little to no interest is Ben Chilwell. The left back has played 45 minutes all season, and at 28 years old is watching his career vanish before his eyes.

Enzo Maresca has this week praised his professionalism, but there surely is only so much humiliation Chilwell can take.

Today we finally see a move suggested by CaughtOffside, but it’s not a very convincing one. They say that Leicester would like to sign their former player back. But firstly Chilwell’s huge wages (reported at £200,000 a week) would make that impossible, and secondly there are big question marks about whether the defender wants to throw himself into a nightmare relegation battle. The Foxes have lost 5 of their last 6 games in all competitions.

Leicester return a non-starter for unpopular former player

An unhappy Ben Chilwell captains Chelsea in the FA Cup.

The other problem with that move is that Leicester fans don’t like Chilwell, and we’ve seen him jeered and booed by their fans when we face them.

We never quite understood why – they got huge money for him when he moved to Chelsea, but football fans are funny like that, and it’s often hard to understand the whims of other fanbases, just as it’s hard for them to understand ours.

What we can say is that Leicester is a very long shot, for all those reasons above. So where is realistic for Chilwell? With just two weeks left of the transfer window, nothing is really bubbling up, and we fear his major wages may mean he’s condemned to another 6 months on the bench unless he’s willing to take a pay cut.