5 reasons why Chelsea were wrong to allow Batshuayi to move on loan

#4 His goal ratio at Chelsea was good anyway

Batshuayi's goal record at Chelsea was actually impressive

Look at his statistics on the surface of things and you could easily jump to the conclusion that Batshuayi was consistently misfiring during his time at Stamford Bridge – his goal record in 2016/17 was 9 goals in 28 games across all competitions, and this season it didn’t really improve – 10 goals in 25 games. But that’s only half the story.

That’s because Batshuayi was always an extremely rare starter at Chelsea – in fact, 19 of his 20 Premier League appearances in 2016/17 came from the substitutes’ bench. 2017/18, prior to his move to Dortmund, was no better – 3 starts in 12 appearances for the Belgian. Suddenly, that goal record doesn’t look all that bad.

It looks even better when you consider his goals-per-minute ratio. In 2016/17 he featured for a total of 239 minutes in the Premier League and scored 5 goals – a ratio of a goal every 47.5 minutes. This season he scored 2 goals in 353 minutes; a ratio of a goal every 176.5 minutes, but throw in his lone assist and it means the Belgian was involved in a goal every 117 minutes – just over a goal per game. That suddenly looks pretty good, and throws into question why he was never given a fair chance.