Hernan Crespo signed for Chelsea in 2003, in what was a controversial transfer at the time. The fee was questioned, and there was some anger around Inter Milan at how he’d been allowed to leave.
Doing reasonably well with the Blues, Crespo then found himself unwanted when Jose Mourinho arrived, and was sent back to Italy, with AC Milan taking him on loan.
The following season, Mourinho changed his mind, and Crespo was used as an additional option in the Chelsea attack. Another exit was just around the corner, and he returned to Inter Milan.
That move was initially a loan, with it being made permanent when the Argentine’s Blues contract ended. However, Crespo then found himself under Mourinho again as the manager moved to Inter, and his fortunes once again took a turn for the worse.
That’s what he’s explained in an interview with Sky Italia: “They sold me to Chelsea without my knowing. I had bought a house in Milan 10 days before, I had another four years of contract and I was doing very well. Champions League semi-finals and second place behind Juve in the league and they tell me: ‘We sold you to Chelsea’.”
Crespo later had spells with Genoa and Parma, but never managed to hit the heights of earlier in his career.
