Is it just me or does it feel like the media is making a mountain out of a mole hill when it comes to us and FFP ? The 600 million spend that keeps getting banded around, although I think that's actually too high. The fact we've got them on 6/7/8 year deals mean that these sums get split across that time period. Even if you call it 100 mil a season, without taking into account revenue, new sponsorship deals etc well probably get that from a couple of transfers ? With players like mount/havertz being banded round for 70/80 million and then the likes of kova, RLC, pulisic in the 20-40 bracket we really don't need to do much to satisfy the FFP rulings. Were also shifting a hell of alot of wages with the players that leave. On average our new players are getting 75k, ugarte for example is signing a 60k a week deal, I can see havertz, kova, pulisic or RLC being on at least double that. I genuinely think when we shift the dead weight this summer in terms of wages and transfer fees we will be well ahead of other teams with our spending power.
posted on 4/6/23
Not much of this article is true unfortunately.
posted on 4/6/23
Thing is that other clubs know that things are tight with Chelsea when it comes to FFP, so the figures they're expecting for the likes of mount probably won't be what they'll get. Clubs will wait until they blink and lower their asking prices
posted on 4/6/23
I have no idea what the figures look like, but if you’re correct about this season and you’ve added a ballpark £100m per season spend over the next six seasons, it’s important to remember that for any given season, that £100m figure is added to amortisation that a) you’ve already racked up for that season, and b) you’re yet to add as you make further signings down the line.
So spend for next season, for example, won’t just show the £100m (or whatever) you’ve racked up this year, it’ll also show existing contributions from transfer fees paid for Lukaku, Havertz, Chilwell, Ziyech, Kovacic, Kepa, Pulisic, etc. plus contributions from any signings you make this summer.
My guess is that you’re going to have to do a lot of selling, and the selling you do do is going to have to benefit the books in a far better way than the likes of the departures of Werner, Jorginho and Morata.
posted on 4/6/23
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I have no idea what the figures look like, but if you’re correct about this season and you’ve added a ballpark £100m per season spend over the next six seasons, it’s important to remember that for any given season, that £100m figure is added to amortisation that a) you’ve already racked up for that season, and b) you’re yet to add as you make further signings down the line.
So spend for next season, for example, won’t just show the £100m (or whatever) you’ve racked up this year, it’ll also show existing contributions from transfer fees paid for Lukaku, Havertz, Chilwell, Ziyech, Kovacic, Kepa, Pulisic, etc. plus contributions from any signings you make this summer.
My guess is that you’re going to have to do a lot of selling, and the selling you do do is going to have to benefit the books in a far better way than the likes of the departures of Werner, Jorginho and Morata.
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But we did well in terms of transfer fees for those players you mentioned, plus massive gains on the likes of hazard, etc. I understand what your saying about other transfers but luckily for us we've invested for the future by making a large number of young talented signings all at once so I actually think our spend over the next few years won't be anything too dramatic , just adding the odd one or two like all sides do
posted on 4/6/23
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comment by rosso says the time has come to unlock the unlimited Pote-ntial of the Fernançalvemiro triumvirate (U17054)
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I have no idea what the figures look like, but if you’re correct about this season and you’ve added a ballpark £100m per season spend over the next six seasons, it’s important to remember that for any given season, that £100m figure is added to amortisation that a) you’ve already racked up for that season, and b) you’re yet to add as you make further signings down the line.
So spend for next season, for example, won’t just show the £100m (or whatever) you’ve racked up this year, it’ll also show existing contributions from transfer fees paid for Lukaku, Havertz, Chilwell, Ziyech, Kovacic, Kepa, Pulisic, etc. plus contributions from any signings you make this summer.
My guess is that you’re going to have to do a lot of selling, and the selling you do do is going to have to benefit the books in a far better way than the likes of the departures of Werner, Jorginho and Morata.
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But we did well in terms of transfer fees for those players you mentioned, plus massive gains on the likes of hazard, etc. I understand what your saying about other transfers but luckily for us we've invested for the future by making a large number of young talented signings all at once so I actually think our spend over the next few years won't be anything too dramatic , just adding the odd one or two like all sides do
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According to TransferMarkt you made a combined loss of EUR110m on the three players I mentioned.
I don't expect that you'll be making anything other than big losses on Lukaku, Sterling, Cucurella, Koulibaly, Havertz< Kepa, Pulisic and Ziyech, should any of them leave this summer.
The key I think is going to have to be trying to milk as much money as possible from homegrown players (a chunk of CHO, Mount, Gallagher, James, Hall, Chalobah, Broja) to try to net off some of those losses.
posted on 5/6/23
jp, exactly where are you pulling these new wage structure figures from ?
posted on 5/6/23
and if it is only 100m per season, with out C/L football that is a significant additional burden on the club.
This short , will effect our progression, stadium plans ect.ect.
Oh yeeah lets not forget Stamford only holds 42.000.