Sell Nicolas Jackson and Joao Felix but keep goalkeeper Robert Sanchez?! Fans vote on future of Chelsea squad in our 'keep or sell future'

Chelsea do more transfer business than pretty much any club in world football, but what do the fans think? We asked which players in the current senior men's squad supporters would want to keep or sell. We ran the poll for a whole week in the wake of the club's FIFA Club World Cup victory and we are now publishing the results. Read to see who fans want to sell and who they want to keep.

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Chelsea fans are sitting pretty moments after an excellent couple of months for the club, as the rebuild enters the next phase.

The men's team are coming off winning the FIFA Club World Cup to go with the UEFA Conference League and top-four place secured, whilst the women's team completed an unbeaten domestic treble in Sonia Bompastor's first season in charge.

Things have been busy when it comes to transfers, with Jamie Gittens, Liam Delap and Joao Pedro signed, plus the arrivals of Dario Essugo and Andrey Santos.

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But there are still plenty of decisions to be made about the men's team in terms of who will stay and go. We at TNT Sports posed the simple ‘keep or sell’ question to fans for each member of the squad and, perhaps predictably, the likes of Cole Palmer, Moises Caicedo and Enzo Fernandez were heavily backed to stay.

Palmer topped the voting to keep with a whopping 93% of the votes. Level with him at 93% was winger Pedro Neto, who has only gotten better as the season went on.

Midfield tandem Fernandez (89%) and Caicedo (88%) were just behind them, with captain Reece James at 85%.

Of Chelsea's massive squad, 12 players received more than 50% of the votes to sell as opposed to keep.

Two of them, Noni Madueke (60% sell) and Djorde Petrovic (64% sell) have already moved on, to Arsenal and Bournemouth respectively.

The others to receive more sell votes were Filip Jorgensen, Ben Chilwell, Renato Veiga, Benoit Badiashile, Axel Disasi, Lesley Ugochukwu, Carney Chukwuemeka, Christopher Nkunku, Joao Felix and Nicolas Jackson.

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Chilwell and Jackson both ended with the second-highest percentage to sell, with 71% of the votes, but the highest was young French midfielder Ugochukwu, who ended up with 75%.

What is particularly interesting is to see players like goalkeeper Robert Sanchez (60%) and midfielder Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall (55%) end up in the keep section despite speculation about their future.

Young stars Josh Acheampong and Marc Guiu ended up at 51% and 50% keep respectively, perhaps signifying some fans feel they need to go out on loan.

Chelsea Keep or Sell Fan Vote Results

Player	% Vote to Keep
Cole Palmer	93%
Pedro Neto	93%
Enzo Fernandez	89%
Moises Caicedo	88%
Reece James	85%
Marc Cucurella	83%
Levi Colwill	83%
Malo Gusto	78%
Trevoh Chalobah	77%
Tosin Adarabioyo	68%
Romeo Lavia	66%
Robert Sanchez	60%
Tyrique George	60%
Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall	55%
Wesley Fofana	53%
Josh Acheampong	51%
Marc Guiu	50%
Filip Jorgensen	48%
Renato Veiga	45%
Noni Madueke*	40%
Benoit Badiashile	36%
Djorde Petrovic*	36%
Christopher Nkunku	35%
Carney Chukwuemeka	34%
Joao Felix	33%
Axel Disasi	33%
Ben Chilwell	29%
Nicolas Jackson	29%
Lesley Ugochukwu	25%

*Player has left Chelsea permanently since poll was started

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