Chelsea have never shied away from using foreign players, and it has been no different with their French cohort with the club having said ‘bonjour’ to a mammoth 18 French players at a senior level.
Some have lifted the Champions League, or should we say Coupe des Clubs Champions Europeens as it reads on the famous trophy, whilst wearing the famous blue shirt. Others… well let’s just say it wasn’t long until the club said ‘au revoir’.
And Wesley Fofana has become the latest Gallic player to arrive at Stamford Bridge, joining from Leicester for a fee believed to be around £69million.
But how do the rest of his compatriots stack up in a Chelsea shirt? We’ve ranked all 18 of them in order from worst to best. Bon Appetit.
18. Gael Kakuta
Kakuta can probably feel hard done by to be bottom of this list, but his transfer getting the club temporarily banned from the market is probably a reasonable enough issue to put him at the foot of the table.
Kakuta arrived from Lens as a youth player in 2007, but in 2009 he was banned for four months and the club fined for breaching his contract at Lens in order to move to Chelsea.
It provoked a long legal battle in the courts, with Chelsea eventually winning their appeal, but by that point the damage was done.
Lille-born Kakuta, who had looked a promising young player prior to the ban, never quite looked the same after his stint in the stands, and a series of loans followed before he left for free to Sevilla in 2015.
He’s a Democratic Republic of Congo senior international so arguably shouldn’t be on this list, but when he was at Chelsea he was registered as French and turned out regularly for their underage sides.
Remember Gaël Kakuta?
Well, he’s just produced this worldy! 🎯
Amiens lead PSG 3-1 at half-time! 😲 pic.twitter.com/hBw54qjYks
— Football on BT Sport (@btsportfootball) February 15, 2020
17. Tiemoue Bakayoko
Bakayoko arrived in much anticipation from Monaco, becoming Chelsea’s then-record transfer at £40million.
He was worth every penny… if you didn’t like Chelsea and wanted to see them waste money on a player who was perennially loaned out after one poor season.
He’s still on Chelsea’s books and on his second stint with AC Milan.
“I hope to stay here even after these two years on loan,” Bakayoko has said. “At this point in my career I need stability after all these loans, so I hope to stay at Milan for a long time. I will do everything possible to make that…
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