Chelsea agree £22m permanent sale of home-grown winger

According to the The Athletic, Fulham will pay £22 million ($30m) for George, as well as Chelsea negotiating a sell-on clause into the deal that will allow them to potetially profit more from the 19-year-old in the future. The contract for George himself is thought to be a five-year deal until 2030.

George made 26 appearances across all competitions for Chelsea last season, although half of those came in the UEFA Conference League when Enzo Maresca regularly rotated his team. The youngster had to wait until the third game of the season for his first minutes of 2025-26, replacing injured striker Liam Delap early on but was later substituted himself. With the new arrivals of Alejandro Garnacho and Facundo Buonanotte, as well as Marc Guiu recalled from loan, George was facing a stiff battle for playing time.

With George on the move, Chelsea's summer income from transfers is set to rise to as much as £334m ($452.5m) if all add-ons are triggered. The Blues are also set to send Nicolas Jackson on loan to Bayern Munich for an initial £14.3m ($19.4m), followed by a guaranteed £56.2m ($76.2m) payment next summer thanks to an obligation to buy. It comes after the original move was cancelled and then resurrected.

Chelsea have spent heavily on 11 new players - only eight of which will actually play for the club this season due to several Strasbourg loans - to mark even more squad turnover. But the Blues can probably feel satisfied with the summer as a whole, giving Maresca more to work with and offloading players who served no use. Raheem Sterling is still on the books, but there will be opportunity to yet move him on, with transfer windows in Saudi Arabia and Turkey open well into September.