Chelsea report loss of £49.4m for the financial year

[bushman 2,043]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/chelsea/10545301/Chelseas-50m-loss-signals-end-to-big-spending-as-club-looks-to-meet-Uefas-Financial-Fair-Play-guidelines.html

This is the end...

Jeremy is an idiot who has no clue about finances. Don´t forget, the loss was calculated to June of last year. Adidas just kicked in...nothing to worry about. Since it´s Chelsea these things are reported happily. Meanwhile, Bolton is 163.8m in the hole & hardly any headlines are made. This season, win PL, semifinals of CL, bingo plenty of money around.

[The only place to be 11,313]

There goes any fund for our new signing this Jan, don't think we will sign anyone now, maybe Guarin at a stress. And if we have a bad season or don't win the CL/BPL then in the summer too, no more expensive world class players of course we can sell Luiz and Mata, Kevin and a few other to balance the book.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/chelsea/10545301/Chelseas-50m-loss-signals-end-to-big-spending-as-club-looks-to-meet-Uefas-Financial-Fair-Play-guidelines.html

This is the end...

Think you're panicking unduly. The club is positioned quite nicely in real terms, and that Telegraph article is amazingly simplistic. Commercial revenues are up, tv money is about to increase dramatically and we have a lot of young assets who are growing in value.

[Thendo 1,088]

Would be interesting to see how much City's loss is at.

[bushman 2,043]

Would be interesting to see how much City's loss is at.

Some say, it´s impossible to describe, unprinted. The last time, I read around 80m. Not sure if true though.

[Ollie 4,400]

Who cares, we're loaded! I lost 30p yesterday.

[gary gordon 1,777]

Why is this getting so much attention from all the major sporting websites?? Real Madrid have around 1 billion dollars debt. Most top clubs in Europe aren't at equals. If Citeh weren't sponsored by there owners, they'd be fucked!! They have absolutely no fan base outside Greater Manchester.

[xPetrCechx 13,570]

Bigger Bridge.

[1chelsea 864]

They fear we are becoming too big for their liking but I see they have no choice

[The_Flash 1,144]

Well, here's to hoping we can get the stadium improvements we need. + I hope that the club factors in the introduction of safe-standing into its plans.

Safe standing, thats hardly a priority,would be way down on my list of what the club has to spend. I really don't want it myself.

[Mr_President 404]

Safe standing, thats hardly a priority,would be way down on my list of what the club has to spend. I really don't want it myself.

Never said it was a priority, but as a match-going fan I definitely think it will improve stadium atmosphere, allow higher capacity (assuming we can improve the transport facilities to cope) and maybe, just maybe, reduce ticket prices for the standing zones.

Why wouldn't you want it? Loads of people pretty much stand anyway and this would actually be safer and allow more people to get to games.

[The_Flash 1,144]

It would NOT be safer.

[Muzchap 8,966]

As usual a nice 'headline figure' that bears no correlation to 'facts'

We are within FFP tolerances and with the new kit deal, increased sponsorships and CL qualification we are looking good.

Add in the reduction of Lampard, Cole and Essiens salary - plus a bit of dead wood clear out and we are looking brilliant.

If we could ship out Torres and BA that would be even better

Plenty to be optimistic about - next year, if we sell some players - could even turn a profit

[Jype 6,398]

It would NOT be safer.

Remind me again how many standing-related incidents have there been in Germany, let's say for the past 20 years?

[Laylabelle 9,534]

Never said it was a priority, but as a match-going fan I definitely think it will improve stadium atmosphere, allow higher capacity (assuming we can improve the transport facilities to cope) and maybe, just maybe, reduce ticket prices for the standing zones.

Why wouldn't you want it? Loads of people pretty much stand anyway and this would actually be safer and allow more people to get to game

From what I remember hearing cant increase the Capacity to a large number due to only 2 main exits.Health and safety and guidelines etc

Not to bad considering everything that's happened lately..seems a case of making it sound more dramatic then it is

[Mr_President 404]

From what I remember hearing cant increase the Capacity to a large number due to only 2 main exits.Health and safety and guidelines etc

Not to bad considering everything that's happened lately..seems a case of making it sound more dramatic then it is

Yeah that's right.

My original post meant to convey my hope that if we were looking to do a major stadium redevelopment or moving completely (thereby eliminating the capacity issue in terms of exits) - I hope that we factor in a standing sections into the plans.