Is it not NINE goalies? They have sold Gallagher for big money, and he is pure profit in FFP terms. They are also forcing Chalobah out of the club (he is banned from the training ground, what a way to treat someone who has been with you since he was 6) cos they want the transfer fee. He, again, is pure profit.
It seems daft to force out your youth products to buy players who are the same age and little, if any, better. The logic seems to be to sell them on in years to come for higher fees. But then all have been signed for big money, on long contracts and how will they get enough game time for people to even know who they are when Chelsea have squad of FIFTY players. FIFTY!!!
Ignoring all that, why not just…..and this is a revolutionary idea I know…..play your youth products? They are free and will attract bids that are pure profit so they help even more. Play Chalobah for 3 more years and then sell him for 60m and bank ehhh 60m profit (ignoring wages). Does that not make more sense than forcing him out now for 20m, buying some random kid no one has heard of for 30m, giving him a 97yr contract and then hoping to sell said kid for a profit? Again, ignoring wages, you need to sell that kid for 70m to make the same profit you would by playing Chalobah.
I know, it's more complicated as clubs Amortisise the players value over the length of his contract, but the basic point holds.
The sooner Chelsea's model implodes and they get relegated and collapse the better for football. And they will not be missed. Horrible club. Horrible fans. Horrible owners (past and present). Horrible attitude to FFP and rules in general.
It seems daft to force out your youth products to buy players who are the same age and little, if any, better. The logic seems to be to sell them on in years to come for higher fees. But then all have been signed for big money, on long contracts and how will they get enough game time for people to even know who they are when Chelsea have squad of FIFTY players. FIFTY!!!
Ignoring all that, why not just…..and this is a revolutionary idea I know…..play your youth products? They are free and will attract bids that are pure profit so they help even more. Play Chalobah for 3 more years and then sell him for 60m and bank ehhh 60m profit (ignoring wages). Does that not make more sense than forcing him out now for 20m, buying some random kid no one has heard of for 30m, giving him a 97yr contract and then hoping to sell said kid for a profit? Again, ignoring wages, you need to sell that kid for 70m to make the same profit you would by playing Chalobah.
I know, it's more complicated as clubs Amortisise the players value over the length of his contract, but the basic point holds.
The sooner Chelsea's model implodes and they get relegated and collapse the better for football. And they will not be missed. Horrible club. Horrible fans. Horrible owners (past and present). Horrible attitude to FFP and rules in general.
