Real Madrid have agreed to take Ghana midfielder Michael Essien on loan from Chelsea for the rest of the season,
The 29-year-old, who joined Chelsea from Olympique Lyon in 2005, links up again with former Stamford Bridge boss Jose Mourinho.
The combative midfielder has won two Premier League titles, four FA Cups and one Champions League at the London club.
Essien did not feature when Champions League winners Chelsea were thumped 4-1 by Atletico Madrid in the European Super Cup in Monaco on Friday.
Chelsea also sent out two fringe players on loan on deadline day, with Gael Kakuta and Nathaniel Chalobah joining Vitesse Arnhem and Watford respectively.
The 21-year-old Kakuta has been unable to establish himself at Stamford Bridge despite high expectations when he arrived as a teenager from Lens in 2007.
Kakuta, whose Chelsea deal runs until 2015, has subsequently been farmed out on loan to Fulham and Bolton before returning to France with Dijon during the latter part of last season.
Watford boss Gianfranco Zola has raided his former club to sign versatile youngster Chalobah on loan until January.
The defender-come-midfielder, 17, captained the Blues to FA Youth Cup success last term and has also skippered the Premier League club's reserve side on a regular basis.
Chalobah, an England Under-19 international, is yet to make a first-team appearance for Chelsea but has been an unused substitute.
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