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True. Personnel wise we won’t need too much in the summer, we just need to be smart and not blow huge money on super risky signings like fucking Gittens. Like United, we should actually consider targeting some of the best players within the PL who don’t play for the top teams like they did with Mbuemo and Cunha. Players who wouldn’t care about UCL football and would jump at the shlt to step up to a huge club.

"Club sources ensure me that their model is to buy potential and grow experience" Which is so flawed! We dont need potential we need experienced players

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'Chelsea have already breached UEFA's financial rules and must sell players' Report from finance expert Adam Williams - Also response from Chelsea club sources in this 👀 https://siphillipstalkschelsea.substack.com/p/Chelsea-have-already-breached-uefas As I always say, this side of the game is absolutely not my remit. I try not to speak too much on football finances. Mostly because I know little about it and I’m not great with numbers. But also, this whole side of football just infuriates me and takes the magic away from the game. Football is a game, not politics. But these days, there is far too much politics, and far too much money, in our beautiful game. So anyway, I’ll report something from an ‘expert’ today instead. Said expert claims Chelsea have already breached UEFA’s financial rules, even if they have passed another round of Profit and Sustainability Rules. Chelsea have successfully navigated the Premier League’s financial hurdle with the help of doing things such as selling the Women's football team and selling hotels etc, finding various loopholes. But apparently those little tricks are not allowed on UEFA's side of things. Speaking exclusively to The Chelsea Chronicle, finance expert Adam Williams has given an insight into Chelsea’s standings with UEFA, despite positive PSR news. “The real problem is UEFA’s rules, which don’t recognise the artificial profit from the women’s team sale. Chelsea have already breached those rules and are under the terms of settlement, which, broadly speaking, means they have to break even financially over the next three years. “Given that they have posted annual operating losses – that’s the loss before profit on player sales – of £200m since the takeover, that’s going to require a major recalibration to their strategy. “If they breach the terms of that settlement, they can get hit with a further cash fine and be kicked out of the Champions League. “The solution is players’ sales – we’re going to see a lot more sales. And I’d predict that it’s not just going to be peripheral squad players; there will be some superstars leaving too.“ Williams continued, sharing how Chelsea successfully navigated the Profit and Sustainability Rules for the 2024-25 Premier League season. “PSR works in a rolling three-year cycle, over which you’re allowed to lose up to £105m, with allowances for spending on the academy, community, infrastructure and so on. “Chelsea sold their women’s team to themselves in 2023-24, so it was slap bang in the middle of the PSR assessment window that the Premier League has now confirmed that they have complied with. They generated an artificial profit of £198m, leading to an overall profit for the business of £138m, so we always knew that there was zero chance of them failing here. Effectively, they broke PSR with that deal. “Without that accounting trick, they’d have posted a loss of £60m in 2023-24, added on to their £79m loss in 2022-23. They’d have been at negative £139m for the three-year period going into 2024-25. “We don’t have the figures for 2024-25 yet, but they’ll have made a loss there too. So the women’s team sale has saved them from not one but two PSR breaches. In my view, that’s against the spirit of the rules, but you can’t blame Chelsea for taking advantage of the Premier League’s naivety when they were writing them.“ Just to add to this by the way, with something I’ve been told by the club this week, as Williams mentions Chelsea selling their top players. Club sources ensure me that their model is to buy potential and grow experience. They therefore sell only those players who eventually don’t turn out to be top top players. Through iterations of this they aim to end with a top top team. They claim that they don’t sell just to extract value.

The problem didn’t start this summer. It started in the very first season when they went out and signed a bunch of players and kept choosing “potential” over proven quality. Instead of bringing in established, ready-made players, they kept betting on young prospects who might be good one day. That’s how you end up finishing 6th, then 12th — and let’s be honest, that season was total chaos — and now we’re probably going to miss the top 5 again. If that happens, it means missing the Champions League three times in four years. There are no miracles in football. You can’t keep gambling on development projects and expect elite-level consistency. Squad building at this level requires balance — experience, leadership, players who already know how to win — not just resale value potential. And the spending hasn’t been small either. Garnacho and Gittens alone were around 100 million combined, and right now neither looks like a player you can build around. When you pay that kind of money, you need immediate impact, not long-term hope. Pedro has worked out, fine. But one hit doesn’t fix a flawed strategy. A lot of people warned about this approach from the start. No one wanted to hear it. Now the consequences are pretty clear.

Yup I guess a whole sale is coming this summer. Now we see why they did not want to buy a defender. But the problem is that they sold this summer and the buys where not good. Well except for Pedro. But the rest, garnacho, hato, gittens have been an expensive waste.

Nah bruv just been listening to Genesis. "Throwing it all away"

Looks like this figure is worsened because UEFA doesn't recognize the owners sale of the club hotel and women's team to themselves. They tried to use a loophole only for it to come and bite them in the back.

They need to make a banner of this and parade it around the grounds. Arrogant human being.

We might still have to sell players to break even as per the UEFA stipulations. If the club doesn't make CL positions, the Palmer sale goes from being a probability to a necessity.

Those deals will be investigated, similar to Savinho to City & also some of the other Chelsea-Strasbourg deals that have been done. So it will not be a shortcut to getting players on the cheap….

Considering how cooked the UEFA books look might be worth looking at Barco, Moreira and Godo and get business done on the cheap.

If Estavao and Cucu are back, in with a shout Can see cards a plenty. We need four more to be top of PL with Yellows and reds. As our song goes ''we've won it all...'' btw new song being sung 'Red is the colour' ⚽

they are destroying the club

What he means was they sniffed a profit on the back of previous success...

Beghdad Eghbali in 2021: “We thought Chelsea [was] frankly an asset, a business that was not terribly well managed on the football side, sporting side or promotional side”

“I’m struggling to believe what I’m told” – Matt Law makes concerning Chelsea statement https://Chelsea.news/2026/02/im-struggling-to-believe-what-im-told-matt-law-makes-concerning-Chelsea-statement/ The Telegraph journalist Matt Law has this week made a concerning statement on Chelsea’s front of shirt sponsorship issues. Last week, we finally saw Chelsea play a game with a sponsors on the front of their shirt. But IFS.ai will not be the permanent front of shirt sponsor for The Blues going forward and it looks like they are only here to see them through until the end of the season, even if the partnership will continue beyond that. So Chelsea will once again be in the same situation that they have been in for the last few seasons – on the hunt for yet another front of shirt sponsors. It’s all rather embarrassing for the club, who have continued to play without a sponsor. Obviously in terms of looks on the shirt, it’s great. But in terms of revenue and reputation, it really isn’t a good look at all. Law is not impressed Chelsea announce IFS as their front of shirt sponsor. Law, who speaks and reports on Chelsea a lot, was speaking on the issue earlier this week. “I’ve got very, very cynical (about) all this now,” Law told the London is Blue podcast when speaking about Chelsea’s front-of-shirt sponsorship situation. “I was told at the start of the season that they would be signing a long-term sponsor. “Well, that’s not been the case. “Now, I’m struggling to believe what I’m told on the sponsorship issue, if I’m honest. “It feels like they’re in a sort of revolving cycle of not getting a sponsor, holding out for too much money, and then getting a sticking plaster for the end of the season or offering a little incentive to a company to just pay a bit more for a ‘normal’ sponsorship and put the name on the shirt.” More competition incoming Law also highlighted how Chelsea will now have even more competition for front-of-shirt sponsorship for the upcoming season. “It’s going to get ever harder now,” he explained. “It’s going to become more crowded because I think I’m right that this is the last year of betting sponsors. “So you have an influx of clubs, including (Aston) Villa, Newcastle (United), Everton, who’ve all got betting sponsors, and now they come into the market to find non-betting sponsors for the front of shirts. “And the market shrinks because there are only so many non-betting companies that can afford to or are interested.” Law was referring to the agreement between Premier League clubs to end all front-of-shirt sponsorship from gambling companies from the end of this season. In other news… It’s vital for Chelsea that Moises Caicedo stays under control in the games in the next few weeks, for a very good reason connected to what you see above. A year ago today there was major trouble brewing at Stamford Bridge as fans rejected Enzo Maresca’s playing out from the back philosophy.

Yes, it seems clubs are run as pure businesses, with the actual football a side dish just for us fans to lap up. Figures released today showed the PL received almost the same cash 1.3 bn TV revenue, than all the other leagues combined 1.4bn. So we can see why billionaires 'invest' in it. Myself and mates dont watch with the same enthusiasm now though. A lot of black humour returning, same as when we were shit 😁 On the positive, we can thank the fact we lived through Chelseas greatest ever era, unlikely ever to be repeated.

I hope we at least have a go this time. We need to win as many games as we can.

Senesi is an incredibly underwhelming best option. And not even the best option on that list. If the rumours are true both Romero & van der Ven will be leaving Spurs this summer. We should be all over the pair of them. Ok Romero has a bit of a discipline streak in him (fit right in here then)- although I think a lot of it is frustration - but he is quality. There is no argument about that. And in a position where it’s difficult to find quality. The club will never do it though. And for it to work if they did, they would likely need a good manager who can get through to him or even the likes of a JT on the coaching staff. But he will go somewhere and be a top top signing if he leaves - wait and see. Plus he’d probably call out the idiots running the show, so another strike against him in Clownlake’s eyes probably 😂

Hmm we will see. We did already try to get rid of him though in the summer as part of the Garnacho deal. Would say that if he does break down again before the end of the season, then he really has to be on the list for being sold, regardless of how talented he is. This is season 3 for him & he has played a total of maybe 30-35 games for the club if hes lucky. We have probably played about 130-140 competitive matches in that time. This constant excitement around his inevitable 2/3 week return before he ends up getting injured again is a constant theme.

As soon as they sacked Tuchel & appointed Potter I knew we were finished at the top from a sporting and competitive aspect. Even more so, how they just discarded someone who handled himself incredibly well during the whole sanctions clusterfuck before the sale. I fully agree, the way they’ve disregarded the senior concessions, travel concessions, some of the young & disabled fans - these are things that you do not fuck with. At any level. Typical cuntish moves carried out by Boehly, Eghbali and their cronies. Would you expect any less from 2 American multi billionaires with no knowledge of football? A strong leader/leadership group from the previous regime would maybe go we wouldn’t advise you do this, this is wrong. But they effectively purged that as well. Cech & Marina left. Tuchel sacked. Countless long serving players shuffled out. Good academy players punted purely for profit to be replaced with shite. Worst of it was, Clearlake were fresh in the door, arrogantly giving it the club was poorly run commercially, throwing the previous regime under the bus and whatever else. But in true American fashion, take something great, make a lot of noise about how you’re going to do X Y or Z to improve it then ruin it because you haven’t got a fucking clue. Taken them 3 years to get a front of shirt sponsor. On manager number whatever now & will no doubt change again in 12-18 months. Recorded a record tax loss today too. Why they go to games is beyond me, as you’ve said, they are incredibly well disliked and they must know that. I’ve not been to a game in a long time and have no intention on whilst those shower of cunts are there. Thats the only way they are going to realise they have to go.

both Mbeumo and Cunha are 26 years old both too old for our sick board

Like United showed last summer, it is possible to have a smart window even without European football