Navigating Financial Fair Play: Chelsea’s Transfer Dilemma

Pressure for financial fair play

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On the way from a regular Champions League participant to midfield in the Premier League, the new owners of Chelsea FC around club boss Todd Boehly have spent around 1.08 billion euros on new players since 2022. That could lead to problems with the league’s profitability and sustainability rules this summer. According to the “Times“The Blues therefore want to part ways with homegrown players Reece James and Conor Gallagher in June.

Premier League clubs are allowed to make a maximum loss of 105 million pounds (around 120 million euros) within three years or 35 million pounds (around 40 million euros) per season. This sum includes all areas of a club, which also includes transfer expenses. Everton FC and Nottingham Forest recently experienced what happens if this is violated in the form of point deductions.

Important for the balance sheet: Difference between transfer expenses and income

Transfer expenses are assessed in the balance sheet pro rata for the duration of the new signing’s contract. As of today, the 116 million euros that Chelsea paid for Moisés Caicedo in 2023 will be written off until 2031. So every year an eighth of the transfer fee goes into the balance sheet for the respective season. For transfer income, the entire transfer fee is claimed at once.

Sales of home-grown plants are best for the balance sheet because no transfer fee has been paid for them in advance and they therefore have a book value of zero. According to the Times, the Blues hope to achieve around 117 million euros with the transfers of captain James and Gallagher. If the duo finds new clubs by June 30th, 100 percent of these can be offset in the balance sheet for the 2023/24 season.

15 times over 30 million: Most expensive Chelsea transfers since summer 2022

Bad Taste | 2022/23 from Olympique Lyon

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Transfer fee: €30 million
Gallery status: After the 2024 winter transfer window

Now Madueke | 2022/23 from PSV Eindhoven

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Transfer fee: €35 million

Nicolas Jackson | 2023/24 von Villarreal

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Transfer fee: €37 million

Kalidou Koulibaly Free Mp3 Download 2022/23 from Napoli

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Transfer fee: €38 million

Benoît Badiashile | 2022/23 from Monaco

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Transfer fee: €38 million

Axel Disasi | 2023/24 from AS Monaco

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Transfer fee: €45 million

Cole Palmer | 2023/24 von Manchester City

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Transfer fee: €47 million

Raheem Sterling | 2022/23 von Man City

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Transfer fee: €56.2 million

Christopher Nkunku | 2023/24 from RB Leipzig

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Transfer fee: €60 million

Romeo Lavia | 2023/24 from Southampton

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Transfer fee: €62.1 million

Marc Cucurella | 2022/23 from Brighton

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Transfer fee: €65.3 million

Mykhaylo Mudryk | 2022/23 by Shakhtar Donetsk

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Transfer fee: €70 million

Wesley Fofana | 2022/23 of Leicester City

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Transfer fee: €80.4 million

Moisés Caicedo | 2023/24 at Brighton & Hove Albion

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Transfer fee: 116 million + €17 million in bonuses

Enzo Fernández | 2022/23 by Benfica Lissabon

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Transfer fee: €121 million

Havertz, Kovacic & Co.: Chelsea gave up players as early as June 2023

The deadline of June 30th is likely to be particularly important in order to avoid punishment for violations of Financial Fair Play by the league. How to do this is already known at Stamford Bridge from 2023, when, among others, the departures of Mateo Kovacic (Man City), Kalidou Koulibaly (Al-Hilal), Edouard Mendy (Al-Ahli) and Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Milan) took place in June. This also applies to the biggest sale of last summer in the person of Kai Havertz, whose €75 million move to Arsenal was finalized on June 28th.

The fact that transfers are even possible on the island in June is because the transfer window in England has opened early in recent years. As a result, Chelsea would again have time to generate income before the start of the European summer transfer period on July 1st – for accounting reasons, probably at the expense of two of their three most valuable homegrown players. James, who has been part of the squad since 2019 and is therefore the longest-serving player, is under contract until 2028, while Gallagher’s working paper ends in 2025.

With Caicedo & Nkunku: Biggest losers of the Premier League update

28 Gabriel Martinelli | FC Arsenal | -5 Mio. €

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New market value: €80 million
Status: After the update on March 14, 2024

27 If Gvardiol | Man City | -5 Mio. €

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New market value: €75 million

26 Christopher Nkunku | Chelsea | -5 Million. €

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New market value: €70 million

25 Jack Grealish | Man City | -5 Mio. €

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New market value: €65 million

23 Cristian Romero | Tottenham | -5 Mio. €

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New market value: €60 million

23 Evan Ferguson | Brighton | -5 Mio. €

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New market value: €60 million

21 Moussa Diaby | Aston Villa | -5 Mio. €

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New market value: €55 million

21 João Palhinha | Fulham | -5 Mio.€

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New market value: €55 million

19 Matheus Nunes | Man City | -5 Mio.€

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New market value: €50 million

19 Levi Colwill | Chelsea | -5 million €

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New market value: €50 million

17 Kaoru Mitoma | Brighton | -5 Mio. €

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New market value: €45 million

17 Lisandro Martínez | Man United | -5 Mio. €

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New market value: €45 million

16 Mason Mount | Man United | -5 Mio. €

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New market value: €40 million

15 Mykhaylo Mudryk | Chelsea | -5 Mio. €

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New market value: €35 million

14 Eddie Nketiah | FC Arsenal | -5 Mio. €

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New market value: €30 million

13 Robert Sánchez | Chelsea | -5 Mio. €

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New market value: €25 million

11 Nicolò Zaniolo | Aston Villa | -5 million €

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New market value: €20 million

11 Thomas Partey | FC Arsenal | -5 Mio. €

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New market value: €20 million

10 Trevoh Chalobah | Chelsea | -5 Mio. €

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New market value: €13 million

9 Anthony Martial | Man United | -5 Mio. €

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New market value: €10 million

8 Sofyan Amrabat | Man United | -6 Mio. €

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New market value: €22 million

7 Antony | Man United | -7 Mio. €

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New market value: €28 million

6 Matthew Kovacic | Manchester City | -8 Million. €

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New market value: €30 million

5 Pierre-Emile Højbjerg | Tottenham | -8 million €

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New market value: €20 million

4 Moses Caicedo | Chelsea | -10 Million. €

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New market value: €80 million

3 Marcus Rashford | Man United | -10 Mio. €

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New market value: €60 million

2 Romeo Lavia | Chelsea | -10 million €

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New market value: €40 million

1 Miguel Almirón | Newcastle | -10 Mio. €

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New market value: €20 million

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