[Football] Chelsea - Spending well beyond FFP limits or astute purchases maxing out within FFP?

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Papa Lazarou

Living in a De Zerbi wonderland
Jul 7, 2003
19,358
Worthing
They'll be a fire sale at The Bridge in Jan and in the Summer, they're absolutely screwed. The players being sold will be those on the shorter contracts and in five years they'll have a squad of unenthusiastic players with two years to run on their contracts, sitting on the bench taking big salaries; they're doomed I tell thee!
Then and only then will the Premier League give them a nice hefty points deduction. The Coup De Grâce.
 




dazzer6666

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Mar 27, 2013
55,530
Burgess Hill
Chelsea aren't doing anything wrong.

The EPL is yet to sign up to the 5 year depreciation.
Chelsea aren't in any UEFA tournament so there rules don't take precedent.

In FFP terms Caicedo is costing Chelsea £14.5m a year.

Chelsea made £75m 'FFP profit' on Mount and other (name escapes me) double-barrelled surname fella alone.

Havertz was on the books as £20m and sold for £61m, so there's a further £40m 'FFP Profit' there.

You can do the same with all their signings.

It may well be a bit whiffy and when UEFA come into play they'll have to juggle a little, but that juggling will consist of 'sell academy and get a shirt sponsor'.
PL have voted to include the 5 year limit today - 15 in favour (including Chelsea), 2 against and 3 abstentions. Obviously won’t be backdated
 


Jeremiah

John 14 : 6
Mar 15, 2020
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Hove
Why are Newcastle showing as better than us despite our bar being bigger?
I asked exactly the same question on another thread when the graph was shown. The answer is that we have played more games than them in 2023 and therefore on average they have scored more goals per game than us.
 
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hans kraay fan club

The voice of reason.
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Mar 16, 2005
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Chandlers Ford
i don't know but it would be a massive chunk off the debt, in one go.
Which in turn will be added to the Havertz & Callum H-O cash.

If IF they do scrape through this time, but keep on the same trajectory, the problem will be Gallagher being pretty much their last profitable asset.

Then they will be in the shite, as there's no more cans to kick down the road.
Levi Colwill, Reece James, Armando Broja
 






Stat Brother

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Jul 11, 2003
73,888
West west west Sussex
Reece James’ hamstrings are a bit of an issue here. Out for another three months.
By which time Chelsea could have turned Colwill into the next Colin Hawkins.
 




Mancgull

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Nov 28, 2011
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Astley, Manchester
The problem Chelsea will have is a similar one to Man Utd. They won’t be able to offload their shite players on huge wages as no one will take them.
In fact their problem will be greater as they’ve given players 7 year contracts and they don’t have the revenue that Man United have.
Having a sustainable model will enable clubs like us to slowly catch up with the spend now, regret it later mob.
 








Springal

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Feb 12, 2005
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GOSBTS
is the suggestion not Chelsea’s wages are not that high - as it was the trade off for longer contracts ?
 




schmunk

Why oh why oh why?
Jan 19, 2018
10,347
Mid mid mid Sussex
is the suggestion not Chelsea’s wages are not that high - as it was the trade off for longer contracts ?
As a secondary source I'm not wildly confident in these figures, but as I'm not that much of a DULLARD I'm not going to trawl through Companies House records:

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If true, they're in #5 for wages/player


Squad# PlWeekly WagesAnnual WagesWeekly average
26£ 3,859,000 (€ 4,496,937, $4,842,723)3,859,000£ 200,668,000 (€ 233,840,710, $251,821,602)
£148,423.08​
32£ 3,976,846 (€ 4,634,264, $4,990,610)3,976,846£ 206,796,000 (€ 240,981,737, $259,511,733)
£124,276.44​
26£ 3,193,000 (€ 3,720,839, $4,006,949)3,193,000£ 166,036,000 (€ 193,483,643, $208,361,332)
£122,807.69​
23£ 2,620,000 (€ 3,053,116, $3,287,881)2,620,000£ 136,240,000 (€ 158,762,025, $170,969,837)
£113,913.04​
32£ 2,987,000 (€ 3,480,785, $3,748,436)2,987,000£ 155,324,000 (€ 181,000,831, $194,918,667)
£93,343.75​
27£ 2,250,000 (€ 2,621,951, $2,823,562)2,250,000£ 117,000,000 (€ 136,341,431, $146,825,240)
£83,333.33​
25£ 1,808,000 (€ 2,106,883, $2,268,889)1,808,000£ 94,016,000 (€ 109,557,918, $117,982,237)
£72,320.00​
31£ 2,170,000 (€ 2,528,726, $2,723,169)2,170,000£ 112,840,000 (€ 131,493,737, $141,604,788)
£70,000.00​
24£ 1,518,808 (€ 1,769,884, $1,905,977)1,518,808£ 78,978,000 (€ 92,033,962, $99,110,801)
£63,283.67​
30£ 1,625,000 (€ 1,893,631, $2,039,240)1,625,000£ 84,500,000 (€ 98,468,816, $106,040,455)
£54,166.67​
27£ 1,327,885 (€ 1,547,399, $1,666,384)1,327,885£ 69,050,000 (€ 80,464,754, $86,651,991)
£49,180.93​
26£ 1,242,500 (€ 1,447,899, $1,559,234)1,242,500£ 64,610,000 (€ 75,290,770, $81,080,162)
£47,788.46​
28£ 1,175,000 (€ 1,369,241, $1,474,527)1,175,000£ 61,100,000 (€ 71,200,530, $76,675,403)
£41,964.29​
36£ 1,365,577 (€ 1,591,322, $1,713,685)1,365,577£ 71,010,000 (€ 82,748,766, $89,111,631)
£37,932.69​
28£ 1,034,500 (€ 1,205,515, $1,298,211)1,034,500£ 53,794,000 (€ 62,686,768, $67,506,983)
£36,946.43​
27£ 995,000 (€ 1,159,485, $1,248,642)995,000£ 51,740,000 (€ 60,293,216, $64,929,386)
£36,851.85​
28£ 768,000 (€ 894,959, $963,776)768,000£ 39,936,000 (€ 46,537,882, $50,116,350)
£27,428.57​
33£ 740,500 (€ 862,913, $929,266)740,500£ 38,506,000 (€ 44,871,486, $48,321,824)
£22,439.39​
30£ 553,000 (€ 644,417, $693,969)553,000£ 28,756,000 (€ 33,509,697, $36,086,387)
£18,433.33​
26£ 472,500 (€ 550,610, $592,948)472,500£ 24,570,000 (€ 28,631,702, $30,833,303)
£18,173.08​
 




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