Axel Disasi has not reported to Chelsea for pre-season training, and the club want him moved on. The asking price is reported at £25m, with talkSPORT putting it at around £25million and Standard Sport saying Chelsea would prefer a permanent sale. Crystal Palace, AS Roma and AC Milan are all in the mix, while Disasi wants a Premier League move or a switch overseas rather than the Championship.

Chelsea's position on Disasi

The timeline has been moving in one direction for a while. Disasi has not made a first-team appearance for Chelsea since a 14-minute cameo against Wolves in January 2025, and he is not in Xabi Alonso's plans for the coming campaign. That makes this a straightforward squad-cleanout issue for Chelsea, even if the deal structure is still up in the air.

He made 61 appearances for Chelsea after joining from Monaco in 2023. He also spent the second half of the 2024/25 season on loan at West Ham, where El Hadji Malick Diouf said: "It was crazy he stayed for such a long time and he didn't play, but when he came here, he showed that he's a machine!" Diouf added: "He's a good defender and I think he helped us a lot."

Palace, Roma and Milan are still circling

Crystal Palace are in active negotiations with Chelsea as they line up a replacement for Maxence Lacroix, who Palace believe has three years left on his contract. That keeps Palace as the most concrete Premier League option in the market, but they are not alone. Roma and Milan are watching too, and the split between a permanent sale and another loan remains unresolved.

Disasi's West Ham spell produced seven Premier League appearances, enough to keep him in the shop window without changing Chelsea's stance. West Ham's recent league form around that loan spell was mixed, with two wins in their last five Premier League matches. The important point now is simple enough: Chelsea want a sale, Disasi wants the right move, and Palace remain the club pushing hardest on the English side of the market.

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