Once the jewel of the club’s academy, the winger’s career at Stamford Bridge has come to a sad end
It’s almost unimaginable now that a club of Bayern Munich’s stature would be interested in forgotten Chelsea man Callum Hudson-Odoi, but that was the reality in 2019. A two-year pursuit would culminate in a rejected loan offer that included a whopping £70 million ($90m) obligation to buy, with the Blues steadfast in their resolve to hold on to one of the jewels of their academy.
Two-and-a-half years on, and that resolve has disintegrated – to the extent that Chelsea have negotiated the 22-year-old’s exit for less than £10m. Their west London neighbours Fulham lodged a £4m ($5.1m) bid some weeks ago, and now the Blues have accepted an offer from Nottingham Forest that will see the England international leave for an initial £3m ($3.8,m), with another £2m ($2.5m) available in add-ons.
But was has provoked such a sharp decline in Hudson-Odoi’s value to his boyhood club? GOAL examines the reasons behind the winger’s sad fall from grace…
