Chelsea have arranged three future transfers worth £56.9m for three teenagers because they really cannot help themselves at this stage.
The 2025 summer transfer window is fun and all, but teams are using the opportunity to pre-arrange transfers years in advance now to steal a march on their rivals.
Chelsea are chief among them but plenty of other sides are indulging in the practice. These are the upcoming transfers sorted for future windows involving Premier League clubs.
**Vakhtang Salia (Dinamo Tbilisi to Newcastle, undisclosed, August 2025)**“We’re delighted to get ahead of a number of other top clubs to sign Vakhtang,” said Newcastle sporting director Paul Mitchell. “Scouting and recruiting emerging talent is an essential part of building a sustainable future, particularly within the current PSR framework, so the market is fiercely competitive.”
Salia will join upon his 18th birthday in August, before which the Magpies will be thoroughly exploring possible loan avenues for a player who has scored seven goals in 39 first-team games.
They will otherwise try and fail to sign a load of expensive Premier League players.
**Mason Melia (St Patrick’s Athletic to Tottenham, £1.6m rising to £3.2m, January 2026)**Tottenham really are going to have some team a few managers from now. Archie Gray and Lucas Bergvall are basically grey-haired, grizzled veterans at this stage after pulling through an injury crisis for Ange Postecoglou, and they will soon be showing the likes of Vuskovic and Melia the ropes.
They will have to wait slightly longer in the case of Melia, whose move as the League of Ireland’s record sale cannot be officially ratified until he turns 18 because Brexit.
The forward had a trial with Manchester City and counted Arsenal among his numerous suitors, having made his debut – and scored – at just 15. Frankfurt actually tried to bring him in as Omar Marmoush’s replacement in January.
Geovany Quenda (Sporting to Chelsea, £42.1m, June 2026)
Manchester United were not thrilled to see an obvious target move elsewhere, Ruben Amorim and one of his roaming Sporting wing-backs having been linked for months with a reunion at Old Trafford.
But Chelsea stole in to sort a deal out to bestow upon whoever they appoint as manager in summer 2026 a shiny new signing.
Their willingness to let Quenda stay in Portugal for another season helped Chelsea beat a number of clubs and also negotiate a lower fee, which will still make him a mightily expensive teenager by the time he eventually joins. But not the most expensive in Premier League or even Chelsea history.
**Denner Evangelista (Corinthians to Chelsea, £11.5m, June 2026)**The cousin of Arsenal centre-half Gabriel, attacking left-back Denner will join him in London some time after his 18th birthday next February.
Chelsea swooped in despite the Brazil youth international star having not yet made his senior debut for Corinthians.
Of course there is a seven-year contract, add-ons and a sell-on clause.
**Dastan Satpaev (Kairat Almaty to Chelsea, £3.3m, August 2026)**It is a record sale for the Kazakh Premier League and a relatively modest five-year deal with a 12-month option at the end. But such is the nature of the transfer, that will actually take Satpaev to summer 2032 if he sees it out alongside an increasingly disgruntled Cole Palmer.
Fabrizio Romano says Chelsea believe Satpaev to have “special skills” but it is weird that their solution to not having a consistently reliable elite centre-forward in 2025 is to keep signing ones who might be ready in 2030 if everything goes perfectly.
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