Chelsea’s first-team recruitment has been a contentious subject ever since Todd Boehly took cost of the Stamford Bridge membership again in 2022.
The Blues have signed a mess of gamers, not all of whom have been roaring successes, while their spending has been known as into query by followers of rival golf equipment.
At youth stage, Chelsea have all the time been sensible recruiters, able to providing improved packages to kids all through academy soccer in the UK.
Chelsea land 19-goal England youth worldwide
That seems no totally different in 2025 as Enzo Maresca‘s facet have managed to land an England youth worldwide who arrives highly-rated, from a London rival.
Beforehand of Crystal Palace, 18-year-old ahead Jesse Derry has signed for Chelsea after the expiry of his deal at Selhurst Park.
Initially becoming a member of up with the Below-21 setup at Chelsea’s Cobham coaching base, Derry will proceed his improvement beneath the watchful eye of the Blues’ academy bosses earlier than probably graduating to the first-team setup.
A right-winger with 19 objectives in 23 appearances for Palace within the U18 Premier League South final season, Derry was known as as much as England’s Below-19 squad over the summer season.
The 18-year-old scored twice on the 2025 UEFA Below–19 European Championship. Derry’s first aim at this explicit youth worldwide age group got here in a 5-5 draw with Germany while on the event.
England didn’t make it out of the group stage, nonetheless, after dropping 4-2 to the Netherlands of their last group sport, a match Derry additionally discovered the web in having come off the bench.
{The teenager} additionally occurs to be son of former Crystal Palace, Portsmouth, Leeds United and Queens’ Park Rangers midfielder Shaun Derry.
Derry Jnr. has described the transfer on social media as, “a dream come true to affix the world champions”.
