Ben Chilwell’s move to Strasbourg<\/a> on transfer deadline day was the sixth between the clubs over the summer.<\/p>\nYoung prospects Mike Penders and Kendry Paez joined Chelsea this summer and moved to the Ligue 1 club on loan. Mamadou Sarr joined Chelsea in a permanent \u00a311.8m transfer from Strasbourg, before returning to the French club on loan following the Club World Cup.<\/p>\n
In addition to the three loanees, Strasbourg signed Chelsea academy defender Ishe Samuels-Smith for \u00a36.5m and midfielder Mathis Amougou for about \u00a312m.<\/p>\n
However, it was announced on Tuesday that Samuels-Smith, 19, had rejoined Chelsea, a month after going to Strasbourg – but that he would immediately leave Stamford Bridge for a season-long loan at Championship side Swansea City.<\/p>\n
The reasons cited were a series of events impacting his development opportunities, including the addition of Chilwell and a contract renewal for defender Ismael Doukoure, who had previously been frozen out at Strasbourg.<\/p>\n
The \u00a36.5m was eventually refunded, with similarities in the case cited to when Tyler Dibling rejoined Southampton from Chelsea in 2022 because of “homesickness”.<\/p>\n
Fifa’s loan rules state a club cannot loan more than three players to the same club in a single season so only a permanent deal was possible for Chilwell. Chelsea used three of their six international loan spots with Strasbourg.<\/p>\n
However, there is no law to prevent Chelsea selling players to Strasbourg as long as the fee reflects fair market value.<\/p>\n
Last summer, Manchester City and Manchester United were allowed to take their places in European competitions despite multi-club ownership conflicts with Girona and Nice.<\/p>\n
That was after they agreed not to transfer players “permanently or on loan, either directly or indirectly from July 2024 to September 2025”.<\/p>\n
That arrangement has now ended following the closure of the window.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emegha is Strasbourg’s captain and leads them into their first European campaign since 2020 through the Conference League.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-137838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}