Chelsea FC: Why Andriy Shevchenko Must Go...And Soon!

Above is a something that most Chelsea fans would love to see. The back of Andriy Shevchenko. And that is something he needs to do, not just for himself, but for Chelsea and his reputation.

But will he want to leave? He is getting paid an awful lot of money for just sitting on a bench for 90 minutes a week. The question, then, for Shevchenko to answer is: What do you prefer, the football or the money?

I fear he prefers the money.

He is now 31, so he doesn't have too long left in his career, but what happened to him? One day he was one of the most feared strikers in Europe, and an AC Milan legend. Now he's a laughingstock, a player who has lost all of his greatest attributes.

His reputation may have been damaged beyond repair. Certainly, nobody will be fighting to buy him for a huge sum like they were two or three years ago.

It's hard to believe when you look at him play now that he cost £30 million. He has to go down as one of the biggest wastes of money of all time. Especially when you consider that he's on £121,000 a week!

He joined on May 28, 2006, so i'll say he's been there for 104 weeks. This means that Chelsea have spent £12,584,000 on him, just in wages!

Add the £30 million for the transfer and he has cost them over £42 million in two years. He has only played 49 league games for them, so has cost them a staggering £869,061 every time he has played in the league.

Even worse, he has only scored nine league goals, costing them £4,731,555 per goal! And what have Chelsea won while he has been there? The FA Cup and League Cup. Hardly worth £42 million.

Shevchenko was on the course to become a proper legend of the game before his move to England. And no one could've foreseen the calamity his time here has been. In fact, especially after he scored on his debut against Liverpool in the Community Shield Final, I thought he would be superb.

But something just seems to have happened to him. He's lost what pace he had, seems to have lost the clinical finishing which made him so deadly, and has lost his reputation as a great.

The best transfer Chelsea could make this summer, in terms of value for money at least, would be to ship Sheva out. It'd be for the good of the player, the team and the EPL.