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The problem is finding buyers to pay the price they'll require before 30th of July.Tbh I think they’ll do it. Or they sell Colwill and Gallagher and then they pretty much there no?
The problem is finding buyers to pay the price they'll require before 30th of July.Tbh I think they’ll do it. Or they sell Colwill and Gallagher and then they pretty much there no?
Now google how much United paid for Pogba or Chelsea for Lukaku (last time). You think they will sell Palmer for 40m , we spent more on Brennan Johnson. Liverpool spent that on Benteke 10 years ago. Liverpool will absoulutely need a player like Palmer.
Chelsea would need a lot more money to offload now if Arsenal and Utd didn't majorly help them out. Around 200m in 2 weeks?
Thing is their squad has huge holes already and the wages are too high. Selling all their HG won't help them one bit in the medium to long term. I think they gambled everything on making CL and they are well well short. Silva is 40 ffs.
Point is, they only have a two week window to do it in and a limited number of clubs to do it with, as other clubs will want to delay purchases until after the 30th for the new FFP term.
An unspoken PL amnesty of buying from them would be a thing of beauty.
Players Chelsea could sell, and see a decent profit:
Kepa
Broja
Gallagher
Maatsen
Hall
Colwill
James
A few others could bring in less relief - but Chelsea might also just have a strategy of damage limitation - i.e. get the penalty down to a manageable point deduction and just move on.
I also would expect them to get creative in these deals - allowing clubs to backload the cost well into the future - paying a small fee up front, and most in 4-5 years. From an accounting perspective, the entire sale would count now, but clubs won't have to put up the cash until later.
That could be.Thing is their squad has huge holes already and the wages are too high. Selling all their HG won't help them one bit in the medium to long term. I think they gambled everything on making CL and they are well well short. Silva is 40 ffs.
They don't have to wait until the end of the season to try and offload players though. They could agree a deal now that would go through when the window reopens.
They don't have to wait until the end of the season to try and offload players though. They could agree a deal now that would go through when the window reopens.
Didn't Kepa cost them like £80m a few years ago?Players Chelsea could sell, and see a decent profit:
Kepa
Broja
Gallagher
Maatsen
Hall
Colwill
James
A few others could bring in less relief - but Chelsea might also just have a strategy of damage limitation - i.e. get the penalty down to a manageable point deduction and just move on.
I also would expect them to get creative in these deals - allowing clubs to backload the cost well into the future - paying a small fee up front, and most in 4-5 years. From an accounting perspective, the entire sale would count now, but clubs won't have to put up the cash until later.
I realise that, but why would clubs agree to a price now?
No chance of that happening.To get the player they want to buy. If the price is right why would they delay it and risk the player going elsewhere? They might save a few million, but they might miss out on the player entirely. If we were offered Gallagher for a reasonable fee now we'd probably get the deal done.
That could be.
I could see them (Boehly) taking a longer-term approach - admit defeat in the short-term, take their lumps in penalties, and be prepared to come back in 2-3 years. Thats kinda f what I was thinking when I said they might just aim to get the loss down to a manageable amount rather than eliminate completely.
30th June no?The problem is finding buyers to pay the price they'll require before 30th of July.
Yes - but that would buy them some time to sell a player of two.next season won’t they have the same problem and the season after ?
That's exactly the point that Swiss Ramble made in his analysis of their finances. Their manipulation of their player amortisation means that CFC have effectively signed post-dated cheques to the value of $1.9 billion, in the expectation that Champions League qualification will boost their revenues sufficiently to cover this outlay.I have a suspicion a certain amount of amnesty was promised in terms of past crimes but the actual 'hand-binding' that is going to get them in trouble is on the new guys with their 12 players on 8 year contracts, etc.
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.Re Boehly and his baseball antics, didn't he go over wage thresholds there too, but just paid fines with a shrug of his shoulders, all this says to me is that's what he thought he could do here.
His fee will be amortised by now (maybe a small amount owed still) so they could get a profit still. But he only has a year left and he's not very good so won't male them muchDidn't Kepa cost them like £80m a few years ago?
Kepa is an interesting case.Didn't Kepa cost them like £80m a few years ago?a
To get the player they want to buy. If the price is right why would they delay it and risk the player going elsewhere? They might save a few million, but they might miss out on the player entirely. If we were offered Gallagher for a reasonable fee now we'd probably get the deal done.
I'm sure you've said it repeatedly in this thread:The problem is finding buyers to pay the price they'll require before 30th of July.