No More Abramovich Cash

[Fulham Broadway 16,977]

It has now been revealed that Chelsea intend to be self-funding on an annual basis from next July and no longer reliant on interest-free loans from their billionaire owner.

The Russian oligarch has ploughed almost £600 million into the club since June 2003, but despite the bleak global economic environment, chief executive Peter Kenyon believes they can cut costs and raise revenues enough so that there is no new funding requirement from Abramovich after the current financial year.

Chelsea would then hope to break even in terms of their operating figure by 2010-11.

Telegraph.

Other media sources cite there is no cash available for January -but how reliable remains to be seen....

[Badboy 1,526]

I dont blame the guy i think we need a new stadium though.

[alexandre 0]

No cash no problem . Just use our academy talent

[Aesthetic Relic 301]

No cash no problem . Just use our academy talent

Easier said than done.

Any Club needs a bit of a cash boost to freshen up the squad every year. If we resort to selling our assets to buy other players we wont be challenging for top honours on a yearly basis imo. I think we're quite a few years off from being fully self sufficient.

I for one wouldnt mind taking a step backwards to involve more of the youth players if it meant in the long term we'd be better off for it.

[Kez 2,727]

I still think we need a couple of attacking options, but we can still challenge without spending big.

& we wont hear all that you bought the title shit

[oxfordblues 299]

& i bet were not the only club to cut back.also this will drive down the over inflated price asked for players

[Laylabelle 9,408]

Bringing in Youth defo good thing rather then waste their time.

And yeh no big money signings meh,they dont always turn out amazing

[warnie_666 1,081]

I dont blame the guy i think we need a new stadium though.

Anything else?

We have no cash to buy players and people want a new stadium...

[Badboy 1,526]

Anything else?

We have no cash to buy players and people want a new stadium...

Were did i say i want a new stadium, i thought i said i think we need a new stadium.

[warnie_666 1,081]

Were did i say i want a new stadium, i thought i said i think we need a new stadium.

Where did I say YOU need a new stadium, I thought I said PEOPLE need a new stadium

[Badboy 1,526]

Where did I say YOU need a new stadium, I thought I said PEOPLE need a new stadium

What did ''anything else'' mean then ?

[Cameron 30]

Living on cloud nine...

[Kez 2,727]

Fight fight fight

[Elliott 7]

Its the semantic fight to the death! Will it really be the end? Or is there another realm? Find out never!

[EskWeston 696]

One problem we have is that we have a squad with a lot of players who are getting on a bit age wise. Carvalho, Lampard, Ballack, Deco, Drogba all will need replacing in a couple of years. If we were going to use our youngsters to replace them then they should be in the first team squad now! So we are going to have to dig deep for some big players sooner rather than later.

Who knows what our spending policy in going to be in the fututre? January - wil there be any decent players available anyway? I think there will be a lot of activity in the summer though.