Chelsea Transfers

[Pizy 18,360]

If Rabiot is their alternative to De Jong rather than someone they want in addition to De Jong then they’re even more incompetent than I thought they were. I simply can’t believe that’s the case. They surely want both.

[Special Juan 27,419]

Rabiot LOL, plus Arnautovic is laughable, no wonder their fans are going mental.

We must keep pushing on De Jong

[Mário César 972]

20M for werner?

so low...

[lucio 5,418]

5 minutes ago, Mário César said:

20M for werner?

so low...

Shit deal , maybe we should learn to actually use attackers properly before wasting more money 

[ZAPHOD2319 4,465]

Barca finding new and more interesting ways of shooting themselves financially long term.

 

[Mário César 972]

2 minutes ago, lucio said:

Shit deal , maybe we should learn to actually use attackers properly before wasting more money 

he had 3 years left of contract

a feed around 30M would be OK but not 20M....

very little money for him.

[Pizy 18,360]

I think the club were fine getting any decent fee for Werner. The only way we were ever going to get big money for him was if some other PL club came in for him which didn’t end up happening. 

We’re probably just happy to get his £290k per week or whatever it was off our books.

[ZAPHOD2319 4,465]

1 minute ago, Pizy said:

I think the club were fine getting any decent fee for Werner. The only way we were ever going to get big money for him was if some other PL club came in for him which didn’t end up happening. 

We’re probably just happy to get his £290k per week or whatever it was off our books.

The wages are a significant calculation in FFP. With the amount of spending the club is doing, it becomes a real factor. We will probably see more players selling under valued to clear the wage bill.  

[Superblue 6,370]

The problem with these deals is that so much gets leaked from multiple sources to try and make the buyer look like they're striking as good and cheap a deal as possible and the seller to look like they're getting a good transfer fee and selling as high as possible.

The base fee seems to be going up and down at will but I would assume that with the bonuses the total of the deal would be close to £25-30m.

[Superblue 6,370]

3 minutes ago, ZAPHOD2319 said:

The wages are a significant calculation in FFP. With the amount of spending the club is doing, it becomes a real factor. We will probably see more players selling under valued to clear the wage bill.  

Definitely shouldn't be underestimated how big it is to get two of the biggest earners off the wage bill this coming year when they've been two of the biggest under achievers last season.

The other high earner I believe in that top tier bracket is Kante and he could well be gone this time next year too.

[Jype 6,398]

7 minutes ago, Mário César said:

he had 3 years left of contract

a feed around 30M would be OK but not 20M....

very little money for him.

Three years left on a £270K/wk deal which is a lot higher than he deserves based on his performances over the last two years. Even the highest paid players at Leipzig are on half of that so even if Werner accepts a wage cut they'll probably still have to offer him a high signing fee to join them. They simply can't afford to pay a high transfer fee and pay Werner high wages as well.

The transfer fee is said to be 20M€ with bonuses taking it up to 30M€ so depending on how those bonuses are structured it might still be a decent enough total fee. These reports are from the German journalists who broke the news first, let's wait to see what the likes of Law and Ornstein say on the fee.

[ZAPHOD2319 4,465]

 

[Pizy 18,360]

My heart just skipped a beat when I saw Ornstein tweet “Chelsea have reached verbal agreement with….” 🤣

I thought it was going to be Fofana or De Jong but it’s just about Malang Sarr. Which tbf is almost as exciting!

[Jype 6,398]

8 minutes ago, ZAPHOD2319 said:

The wages are a significant calculation in FFP. With the amount of spending the club is doing, it becomes a real factor. We will probably see more players selling under valued to clear the wage bill.  

Yep. Looking at the list of released players and the players who are about to leave there will have been very sizeable cuts to the wage bill of last year.

Lukaku, Werner, Rüdiger, Christensen, Saul and Drinkwater all gone with the likes of Batshuayi, CHO, Ziyech, Barkley, Alonso, Emerson, Kenedy, Sarr, Kepa potentially still to go if the club can find takers for them. That's already £1.1M a week saved in confirmed departures (though Lukaku only on loan) and should all of the rest go as well it's another £900K a week removed.

Even if some of the deals involve some kind of salary compensation or some of the players end up staying the figures will still very likely add up to total savings of at least £75M a year in salaries alone, let alone the savings in removing future amortisation costs.

[Artandur 939]

15m euros for Sarr is decent, lets hope he plays enough for it to trigger

[Blues Forever 1,232]

 

[Strike 7,212]

Nice profit if it works out

Edited August 8, 2022 by Strike

[Pizy 18,360]

5 minutes ago, Artandur said:

15m euros for Sarr is decent, lets hope he plays enough for it to trigger

It’s more than decent, it’s exceptional. Signed on a free, was utterly atrocious as a footballer, could sell for €15m profit.

That deserves a round of applause.