If and when Potter gets them playing well (or perhaps more likely if he’s sacked and they get an elite manager in), they are going to be one hell of a team.
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If and when Potter gets them playing well (or perhaps more likely if he’s sacked and they get an elite manager in), they are going to be one hell of a team.
Probably, I am still not used to new Twitter where you can just buy the blue checkmark.
meh. Still an insanely bloated and imbalanced squad with no CL money next season, but with an absolute madman at the helm. They might have signed talented players, but what they are doing isn't sustainable.
Would be hilarious if he and Mudryk dont go along well and they cant leave each other for 12 years.
I honestly expected players like Enzo and Nkunku to at least wait till the summer where they could possibly have better options.
Honestly I spelled it out that way because it's legit batshit to think about yet here we are
What a time
And as we’ve seen before buying a player off the back of a good showing at a major tournament often doesn’t come off.
Pure, unadulterated madness.
Most probably a joke.
I tell you what I'm backing Chelsea to win the Conference League next season with the amount of money they have spent this season.
90M for Pogba
80M for Maguire
86M for Antony
Benfica got one over Chelsea with the fee, but it’s not that much more. If we had the money and ten Hag wanted him, we would have paid a similar amount.
Enzo Fernández's contract with Chelsea will run until June 2031. Confirmed.
I only want to experience a transfer drama like this once in my lifetime…. Umkay Todd?
Out of interest, what’s imbalanced about them? I’ll give you bloated certainly, I can see a lot of exits this summer. But I don’t see what the lack of balance is all about.
Yeah, @duffer was spot on, it is 8.5 years contract, still a fecking massive one.
Is this really true, though? Decent team - sure. Scarily good - nowhere near for me.
We have about 4 players for every position. Perfectly balanced.
2031.. 
Yeah likely another manager
2031..
I'll be approaching my mid 50s when his contract is up. Kinnel.
Transfers work like this:I read it is 12 year contract, what the feck!
When you sell a player, the price stated in the sale can go straight on the books. So we sell a player: £100m, we're £100m up on this years books despite receiving that money over say, 5 years.
When we buy a player, we amortise the purchase, meaning if a player cost us £100m we spread that cost out over the length of his contract, even if we pay everything today. So a 12 year contract would mean it's actually a cost of £8.4m a year on the books.
The end of year dealings would look like this:
Revenue: £100m
Out-goings: £8.4m
Balance: £91.6m
Chelsea are flying dangerously close to the sun here in order to beat FFP, but this in essence my friends is why everyone at Juventus is being banned.
River Plate are about to receive €28m due to their sell-on clause.
Would allow them to break their own transfer record 4 times over.
Would allow them to break their own transfer record 4 times over.
Yeah it’s crazy to already think of Potter as a walking P45, but I honestly don’t think he’ll be there by September.
Shame he's not on the market but always felt they would go back and get it done in the end. Will have to stick our deadline day deal on him when they come to Old Trafford
Clubs can spend over 600M pounds over 6 fecking months now...bloody hell football is heading to some seriously uncharted place.
Gonna become a sport of the have and have nots to the extreme more than ever moving forward.
Gonna become a sport of the have and have nots to the extreme more than ever moving forward.
Kepa
Thiago Silva
Koulibaly
Kovacic
Mount
Sterling
Nkunku
Mudryk
I mean I'm not impressed tbh, still need a new keeper, they need to keep permacrocks James and Chilwell fit, still relying on Thiago Silva, all 3 midfielders are workhorses with no specialists and attack lacks clinical goal scorers
There's still lots of money that needs and probably will be spent
Because of the length of the contracts.
maybe it just feels imbalanced because they sign so many players for certain positions, but I guess if you overload every single position it becomes balanced again
Chelsea were the only club in for him and still had their pants pulled down.
EIGHT AND A HALF YEARS…
Really disappointing he's given himself to Chelsea - he has everything for a central midfielder.
8.5 year contract - I hope for his sake he's at least got that inflation linked somehow!!
8.5 year contract - I hope for his sake he's at least got that inflation linked somehow!!
Hope it falls through.
Yes but Chelsea are in the red, before wages.... for like £140-150m for at least the next 3 years.... before a boatload drop off, and £80m for 7/8. Before all the new signings in those times. I've already said it else, but the levers are coming here, at least they won't have a pandemic to bring it faster and more dramatic than it should have happened like Barca.
This works if they sign no one for years after this, which is unlikely. Teams are going to know they'll need to sell to balance books, so their bargaining chip isn't as good as they think it is when it comes to saying "but he has 6 years left aha!". Players worse than Jorginho have gone for more with only 6 months left for instance.
I don't get why all these players are rushing to sign for Chelsea, they might not even be in the CL next season, and we're already halfway through the season, why not just wait til the summer and assess their offers?
I mean, I do get it, bird in the hand and all - but still, you'd think some would wait til the summer, especially with so many clubs lurking/interested
Boehly offering air fryers on the side or something?
I mean, I do get it, bird in the hand and all - but still, you'd think some would wait til the summer, especially with so many clubs lurking/interested
Boehly offering air fryers on the side or something?
Ah well clearly lack patience don't they
Big, fat long contracts. No other club is dishing out eight year plus deals on massive money. That security is enough to tempt most.
People think that this amortisation thing is new or what ? It’s always been there but in the end the money has to come from somewhere. The actual reality is that as long as you have an owner ready to spend money there will always be ways to circumvent FFP. Billionaires haven’t become billionaires by doing everything legally.
Bloody hell…. Chelsea just stop now .
Transfers in FM don't look so unrealistic now...
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