Chelsea Transfers

[OneMoSalah 8,889]

10 hours ago, Bluepower777 said:

Werent the fines mainly due to the previous administration or are they both to blame.

The agent charges from FA are under Roman.

We were fined by UEFA under BlueCo for some things, hotel sale and then something to do with squad ratio cannot remember the exact details. And if we don’t follow the guidelines over the next 4 years, it could go from £30m to £90m if I remember rightly.

Aston Villa were also fined around the same time.

Edited 7 hours ago by OneMoSalah

[OhForAGreavsie 6,094]

On 17/09/2025 at 05:36, Bluepower777 said:

Would they have ever found out considering it was done a while back under the previous owners and previous administration.?

This is an important consideration. Not only was it possible to hide these payments from authorities at the time, they were not even discovered when the club came under heightened scrutiny because Russian owned assets were sanctioned. It's clear therefore that such payments can be hidden relatively easily.

This means there is no way to be sure that other clubs have not engaged in the same activity. Indeed, given the competitive nature of the football industry and the insatiable greed of agents, I'm guessing that many, many, clubs are guilty too. If authorities can't find these payments, but are determined to stop them, it would be counterproductive to impose heavy sporting penalties. Doing that would only make clubs all the more determined to keep their mouths shut about their own regulatory breaches.

There must be penalties but I'm guessing that these are much more likely to be financial than they are to be sporting.