Usually when a player is deemed surplus to requirements by a manager, he is allowed to leave for a more humble sum than might have been imagined. Think Eric Cantona’s £1.5million fee to Manchester United after falling out with Howard Wilkinson at Leeds, the £10m price Sunderland paid Manchester City for misfit Adam Johnson, or the cost to Liverpool of £12m for Chelsea’s Daniel Sturridge, who is now worth at least twice as much. Record buy: Romelu Lukaku completed his £28m move to Everton from Chelsea But Jose Mourinho bucks that trend. The Chelsea boss is somehow able to extract huge sums for players he does not even want. Since he returned to Stamford Bridge, five players he thought unworthy of keeping have been offloaded for quite remarkable figures totalling £141m.
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David Luiz moved to PSG for £50m while Juan Mata joined Manchester United for £37m in January
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Demba Ba and Romelu Lukaku also left Stamford Bridge this summer
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Kevin De Bruyne left to join Wolfsburg for £18m after making just two league starts for Chelsea
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Mourinho has managed to gather £141million from five unwanted players
Time to go: De Bruyne and Mata both left @placeholder during January last season