CHELSEA SPENT £713M ON 72 PLAYERS UNDER ABRAMOVICH: LIST & YEAR's
Chelsea's 72 buys under Abramovich costing a cool
£713m.
2003-04
... Glen Johnson (Age at start of season: 18, Club signed
from: West Ham, Fee: £6.3m)
Alexei Smertin (28, Bordeaux £3.5m)
Geremi (24, Real Madrid £7m)
Juan Sebastian Veron (28, Man Utd £15m) Damien Duff (24, Blackburn £17m)
Wayne Bridge (22, Southampton £7m)
Adrian Mutu (24, Parma £15.8m)
Joe Cole (21, West Ham £6.6m)
Hernan Crespo (28, Inter Milan £16.8m)
Claude Makelele (30, Real Madrid £16m)Neil Sullivan (33, Tottenham, free)
Marco Ambrosio (30, Chievo, free)
Jurgen Macho (25, Sunderland free)
Scott Parker (22, Charlton £10m) 04-05
Mateja Kezman (25, PSV Eindhoven £5.5m)
Alex (22, Santos £5.7m) Tiago (23, Benfica £10m)
Petr Cech (22, Rennes £9m)
Arjen Robben (20, PSV Eindhoven £12m)
Paulo Ferreira (25, Porto, £13.2m) Didier Drogba (26, Marseille £24m)
Ricardo Carvalho (26, Porto, £19.8m)
Jiri Jarosik (26, CSKA Moscow £3m) 05-06
Asier del Horno (24, Athletico Bilbao £8m)
Shaun Wright-Phillips (23, Manchester City £24m)
Lassana Diarra (20, Le Havre £2m)
Michael Essien (22, Lyon £24.4m)
Maniche (27, Dinamo Moscow, loan) 06-07 Hilario (30, Nacional, free)
Ballack (29, Bayern Munich, free)
Kalou (20, Feyenoord £3m)
Shevchenko (29, AC Milan £30m)
John Mikel Obi (19, FK Lyn £16m)
Khalid Boulahrouz (23, Hamburg £9m)Ashley Cole (25, Arsenal £5m + William Gallas)
07-08
Sidwell (24, Reading, free)
Tal Ben Haim (25, Bolton, free)
Pizarro (28, Bayern Munich, free)
Malouda (27, Lyon £13.5m)
Juliano Belletti (31, Barcelona £3.7m)Anelka (28, Bolton £15m)
Ivanovic (23, Lokomotiv Moscow £9m)
Franco di Santo (18, Audax Italiano £2m)08-09
Deco (30, Barcelona £8m)
Bosingwa (25, Porto £16.2m)
Mineiro (32, free)
Ricardo Quaresma (24, Inter Milan, loan)
09-10
Zhirkov (25, CSKA Moscow £18m)
Turnbull (24, Middlesbrough, free)
Sturridge (19, Man City £3m)
Nemanja Matic (20, MFK Kosice £1.5m)
10-11
Benayoun (30, Liverpool £5.5m)
Ramires (23, Benfica £17m)
David Luiz (23, Benfica £21.3m)
Torres (26, Liverpool £50m) 11-12
Courtois (19, Genk £7.9m)
Romeu (19, Barcelona £4.4m)
Lukaku (18, Anderlecht £18m)
Mata (23, Valencia £23m)
Meireles (28, Liverpool £12m) Cahill (25, Bolton £7m)
Piazon (17, Sao Paulo £5m)
Kevin de Bruyne (20, Genk £6.7m)
12-13
Marin (23, Werder Bremen £7m)
Eden Hazard (21, Lille £32m)
Thorgan Hazard (19, Lens £800k)
Oscar (20, Internacional £25m)
Azpilicueta (22, Marseilles £7m) Moses (21, Wigan £9m)
Wallace (18, Fluminense £5m)
Ba (27, Newcastle £7m)
2013-14
Andre Schurrle (22, Bayer Leverkusen £18m)
