It depends how desperate they are to avoid the FFP penalty. If they were willing to sell Reece James to someone like PSG for a discounted but decent fee then all of a sudden they've only got to sell a couple more players to be ok.
If it was any other club I'd say they were screwed, but they seem to land on their feet every time. I wouldn't be surprised to see them go the Barca route of selling future TV rights either.
And also moneyball, which works in sports like baseball, "he always gets on base"!yeah its a soft cap, you breach it and you get fined/lose draft picks, thing is with baseball and their scouting they find gems in the later rounds and develop them into stars along with nabbing up a lot of foreign players at 16 from the DR and other countries.
This is beautiful.
True. But the issue is that the losses are on track to be way more than the £105m permitted maximum.When you have already invested billions, adding another £100m to protect the investment is a no-brainer...
This is beautiful.
I agree this can be done, but they’ll only have until the end of June to get both deals done and only clubs which themselves aren’t skirting the edges of FFP this season will be able to buy either of them. Those two players aren’t going to agree moves to any team and will both be looking for CL football IMO. That really only then means us, Liverpool or City as possible destinations. Clubs abroad are more skint and are not going to pay a HG premium.Tbh I think they’ll do it. Or they sell Colwill and Gallagher and then they pretty much there no?
Yeah and now Gallagher holds all the cards.It does feel like they’ve been pushing Connor Gallagher, and other candy players outdoor, by not offering contracts. Bizarre way to run a football club
I'm not sure if it's so much a reduction in market valuations as it is...this is just the market without Chelsea in it who are usually available to spend 40-100m on literally every player they sign, pumping the prices for everyone else. Or even without the PL clubs in it in general pumping the prices. We've only got to this mental situation where to buy top players costs 60m+ every time because of the shit they and their doped up mates have done, and it's crippled European football in trying to keep up. Hopefully this is all a reversion to the mean to some extent.If Beohly and Co had been patient and delayed spending their money, they’d now be I a position to absolutely clean up given how FFP restrictions have led to a general reduction in transfer market valuations.
Sweet isn’t it?
The ages of the players you mentioned are 32, 31 & 32.As much as I love the prospect of a Chelsea FFP-meltdown, I fear their Saudi sponsors will organise another bailout.
Last year they flogged several surplus players like Koulibali, Mendy and Kanté for vastly inflated transfer fees. What's to stop them selling 10 random substandard youth players at 10m apiece to the Saudi pro league?
The players have to want to go there. I could see Lukaku going for sure, but going home grown player, throwing their careers down the toilet? Nah.As much as I love the prospect of a Chelsea FFP-meltdown, I fear their Saudi sponsors will organise another bailout.
Last year they flogged several surplus players like Koulibali, Mendy and Kanté for vastly inflated transfer fees. What's to stop them selling 10 random substandard youth players at 10m apiece to the Saudi pro league?
As much as I love the prospect of a Chelsea FFP-meltdown, I fear their Saudi sponsors will organise another bailout.
Last year they flogged several surplus players like Koulibali, Mendy and Kanté for vastly inflated transfer fees. What's to stop them selling 10 random substandard youth players at 10m apiece to the Saudi pro league?
Yep. Mendy was the only one they would have made profit on and even he was sold for less than he was bought for. They sold koulibaly at a 15m loss after one seasonKante went on a free and the other two went for 40m euro combined.
I expect they’re all getting nervous they won’t make it.The Premier League teams are meeting to discuss changes to the profit and sustainability rules.
Have a horrible feeling they will make changes and it will save Chelsea from proper punishment.
Nunez was 75m Euros (65m pounds), which is quite a way short of 90m. Liverpool are also fine from a HG perspective, so don't need to overpay.They spent similar amount on Nunez. Palmer is HG and proven in the league. Someone will have to replace some of Salah's contributions when he leaves.