Bluto Blutarsky
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Oh, please be true!!!
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They will have to sell lots of home grown players for very good money before they can buy anyone expensive.
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jurgen11
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Soccer Ball !! - i really hope so
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This presumes they intend to abide by the PSR rules. I’m not convinced they won’t just swallow the points deduction to allow the, to snap up the players they want. Short term pain for a longer term plan.
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This would be pretty funny but not even the fat Kevin Costner is that stupid.
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True, I've heard he's a bit of a tosser.
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True story, I went to school with a Wayne Kerr, he was a complete ****
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if they sell colwell, gallagher and 1 more they will probably get there....
Something fishy about their accounting, but yeah, only time will tell
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"Chelsea’s rivals believe the club need to raise at least £100 million by June 30 to avoid being in risk of a breach. Chelsea have refuted that figure."
I imagine they'll be watching the Forest case with interest. If Forest fail in their argument that selling Johnson later in the window should count, then Chelsea may well be faced with a choice between selling homegrown players before the 30th of June or getting a points deduction next season.
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Bluto Blutarsky
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The devil is in the details - and how much of the loss Chelsea can attribute to things outside the operating costs of the football team. I thought I read some financial accounting charges will have related back to the acquisition - and would not be applied against permissible losses for the FFP rules.
It's also entirely possible, Chelsea mitigate some losses, and accept a points penalty. I can see a scenario where they miss the target this summer, and then get hit with the charges next year (2025), and the drag the appeal process out to the 25/26 season. That gives them time to try and qualify for CL next year, and help raise more revenue for the next potential penalty.
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Surely they’re fucked from a PSR perspective.
They’re £210m in the hole for the last two years and that’s with them having CL.
22/23 they played CL, reported a £121m profit on player sales and still made a loss of £90m.
Will be interesting to see how long Clearlake continue to fund such losses. This isn’t a state sports washing their rep or a play thing for a Russian oligarch. They’re in it for money and right now they are losing £100m a year.
They’re £210m in the hole for the last two years and that’s with them having CL.
22/23 they played CL, reported a £121m profit on player sales and still made a loss of £90m.
Will be interesting to see how long Clearlake continue to fund such losses. This isn’t a state sports washing their rep or a play thing for a Russian oligarch. They’re in it for money and right now they are losing £100m a year.
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Sorry for replying to myself, but this news from Ornstein seems to make more sense.
I wonder if Chelsea were originally leaking their interest in all these expensive players themselves to try and save face for some reason? Maybe to make other prem clubs think they're not as desperate to sell their players as they are potentially
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People are failing to see the bigger picture. They've already committed around 75-100m of transfers through amortisation over the next 5 years.
They will have to continuously sell over a long period. If their academy dries up, then they are in huge trouble.
They will have to continuously sell over a long period. If their academy dries up, then they are in huge trouble.
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This is it, without a dodgy sponsorship deal I can't see it. Chelsea always bled money, they don't make massive amounts from the stadium, no Europe and wages and transfer fees stretched over many years.
Add a points deduction next season and champions league looking impossible for next season it's hard to see how they turn this around.
Even if they do sell the likes of Gallagher and Matsen and a few others it'll only be a short term fix as they are not removing the high earners or removing the problem of the transfer fees they've paid.
They are fucked for the summer and possibly for several summers after.
The only reprieve is if clubs start to successfully appeal these points deductions. Even then, it's hard to see them having a viable reason.
They might not be the only ones with problems, Newcastle could be screwed as well.
Strange how Chelsea have absolutely ravaged Brighton but operating like them might be the only way to save the club. Tighten the belts, sell the high earners etc. Doubt they will do that though.
