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Well done Chelsea! 18:11 - Feb 26 with 1868 viewsbosh67

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/fo

Have managed to lose as much as the national debt of Cuba, or something! Excellent effort.

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Well done Chelsea! on 19:08 - Feb 26 with 1699 viewsBluce_Ree

C*nts.

Stefan Moore, Stefan Moore running down the wing. Stefan Moore, Stefan Moore running down the wing. He runs like a cheetah, his crosses couldn't be sweeter. Stefan Moore. Stefan Moore. Stefan Moore.

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Well done Chelsea! on 19:40 - Feb 26 with 1622 viewsnix

Oh dear. Never mind.
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Well done Chelsea! on 19:45 - Feb 26 with 1595 viewsNorthernr

I mean, why do we bother?
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Well done Chelsea! on 20:08 - Feb 26 with 1510 viewscolinallcars

Well done Chelsea! on 19:45 - Feb 26 by Northernr

I mean, why do we bother?


As the old cockney song goes “ it's the rich wot gets the pleasure an' the poor wot gets the blame”
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Well done Chelsea! on 20:37 - Feb 26 with 1448 viewsDWQPR

So they lose £355million in 24/25 so how do they remain compliant with the PL’s P&S rules which allows a loss of £105million on a rolling three year period? And is it about time the PL sorted out the punishment for the illegal payments made by them when owned by the Russian war criminal?

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Well done Chelsea! on 20:56 - Feb 26 with 1397 viewsNorrisGreen

Ordinary folks, PAYE grunts, hand back nearly half of everything they earn to HM Gov via taxes. Income is taxed and taxed heavily. This is clearly appalling, who would do that!? But, rich folks avoid generating income to avoid paying tax. They spend money on assets and borrow money against those assets. Loans do not attract income tax. So work all year, earn £100k and hand over virtually half to the taxman OR borrow £100k and keep it all to yourself except interest of say 8%.

Obviously this is hugely simplified but you get the gist.. I suspect Chelsea are playing a blinder. Their goal is to acquire good players, win trophies and not fall foul of EUFA financial rules. I would say they are achieving that quite nicely.

There is literally no need for them to "make money" or "turn a profit" as long as they can borrow money and service the debt. I'm not an accountant but I guess that the total value of their assets and what their owners can legitimately underwrite well exceeds their debts so they are basically financially sound and can carry on splurging.

Our finances might look piddly next to theirs but I wouldn't be surprised if their asset to loan/debt gearing is healthier than ours. Same models, just scaled differently.
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Well done Chelsea! on 21:09 - Feb 26 with 1318 viewshertshoops

Scary monopoly type figures - but who cares as its scum

Forgive my ignorance, but is amortisation not the route we've begun heading down recently ?
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Well done Chelsea! on 21:28 - Feb 26 with 1247 viewsFredManRave

Chelsea’s five-year spend on new players was £1.94billion, adding up to them once again having the most expensively-assembled squad in world history, with the players who ended 2025 under now-sacked Enzo Maresca having cost £1.52bn in total, up a further £90m from 12 months earlier.

Chelsea were fined £80m by Uefa in the summer and agreed to a four-year “settlement agreement” after their squad costs reached nearly 90 per cent of revenue, well above the 70 per cent limit for clubs in European competition.

Unlike the Premier League, Uefa did not allow Chelsea to include the in-house sales of the hotel at Stamford Bridge and the club’s women’s team in their accounts.

You couldn't make it up.

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Well done Chelsea! on 21:45 - Feb 26 with 1190 viewsPaddyhoops

Do they care any more? How long has this Man City case being going on for?
Feels like years . They forked out millions on a couple of new recruits in the last window.
So they’re not bothered .
Footballs bent from top to bottom anyway .
David Dein the ex Arsenal chairman defending the utterly contemptuous World Cup ticket pricing saying it’s market forces. I mean really .
C****!
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Well done Chelsea! on 23:06 - Feb 26 with 1029 viewsBoston

Well done Chelsea! on 20:56 - Feb 26 by NorrisGreen

Ordinary folks, PAYE grunts, hand back nearly half of everything they earn to HM Gov via taxes. Income is taxed and taxed heavily. This is clearly appalling, who would do that!? But, rich folks avoid generating income to avoid paying tax. They spend money on assets and borrow money against those assets. Loans do not attract income tax. So work all year, earn £100k and hand over virtually half to the taxman OR borrow £100k and keep it all to yourself except interest of say 8%.

Obviously this is hugely simplified but you get the gist.. I suspect Chelsea are playing a blinder. Their goal is to acquire good players, win trophies and not fall foul of EUFA financial rules. I would say they are achieving that quite nicely.

There is literally no need for them to "make money" or "turn a profit" as long as they can borrow money and service the debt. I'm not an accountant but I guess that the total value of their assets and what their owners can legitimately underwrite well exceeds their debts so they are basically financially sound and can carry on splurging.

Our finances might look piddly next to theirs but I wouldn't be surprised if their asset to loan/debt gearing is healthier than ours. Same models, just scaled differently.


Every single one of their three thousand four hundred and ninety eight playing squad pay huge tax bills.
The hundreds of staff employed fumigating the stadium also chip in a few quid to HMRC.

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Well done Chelsea! on 23:17 - Feb 26 with 1007 viewsRs_Holy

Wow ... thats nearly 1 million squids a day .... think about how crass that is!
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Well done Chelsea! on 23:26 - Feb 26 with 994 viewsHAYESBOY

Absolute scumbag of a club. Fck em.

Smells like a trout farm in here

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Well done Chelsea! on 00:06 - Feb 27 with 936 viewsBushRanger82

Well done Chelsea! on 23:26 - Feb 26 by HAYESBOY

Absolute scumbag of a club. Fck em.


If only we could rack up the honours, they have.
That's what makes me really jealous.
I can't hate them the way I used to in the 70s and 80s, they are just not in the same galaxy as us anymore.
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Well done Chelsea! on 02:41 - Feb 27 with 807 viewsSydneyRs

Maybe all their plastic online fans from Nigeria etc could send the club some money?
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Well done Chelsea! on 06:35 - Feb 27 with 691 viewsWilkinswatercarrier

You can only sell the hotels and women's team once. Training ground next ?

Unsurprisingly they have sold 9 players to Strasbourg this season alone, who also lost £70m last season. So between them they've lost £425m in one season.

And here we are hoping we sell a player for £10m in the summer. Ffs.

https://www.theguardian.com/fo

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Well done Chelsea! on 08:50 - Feb 27 with 546 viewsOrthodox_Hoop

It doesn't say in that article how many points Everton will be deducted for this.
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Well done Chelsea! on 09:43 - Feb 27 with 467 viewsTheChef

Well done Chelsea! on 21:45 - Feb 26 by Paddyhoops

Do they care any more? How long has this Man City case being going on for?
Feels like years . They forked out millions on a couple of new recruits in the last window.
So they’re not bothered .
Footballs bent from top to bottom anyway .
David Dein the ex Arsenal chairman defending the utterly contemptuous World Cup ticket pricing saying it’s market forces. I mean really .
C****!


Well if people keep paying extortionate prices, then they'll just keep raising them.

Only way to protest is not pay and have them play in empty stadia.

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Well done Chelsea! on 09:51 - Feb 27 with 438 viewsjoe90

They only managed to make £83mil from merchandise and kit sales. Obscene numbers, but this is offset by the ludicrous amount spent on the squad. Are we at the point where this can called unethical? If not now, when?
[Post edited 27 Feb 9:51]
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Well done Chelsea! on 10:18 - Feb 27 with 389 viewsPadulas_Shampoo

So when you get promoted from the Championship you're supposed to go from effectively an enforced maximum annual loss of £13m p/a then immediately 3 months later compete with a team / teams that are allowed to outspend that rule by 27x. And that's without even considering how grossly favourable those teams' relative incomes are. Yeah that feels fair and likely to encourage competition.

You couldn't make up what has happened to this sport. If you were in the rIght place, at the right time and had the right owners your position is now protected for eternity. This is what elite English football used to look like...

1 Leeds United (C)
2 Manchester United
3 Sheffield Wednesday
4 Arsenal
5 Manchester City
6 Liverpool
7 Aston Villa
8 Nottingham Forest
9 Sheffield United
10 Crystal Palace
11 Queens Park Rangers
12 Everton
13 Wimbledon
14 Chelsea
15 Tottenham Hotspur
16 Southampton
17 Oldham Athletic
18 Norwich City
19 Coventry City
20 Luton Town (R)
21 Notts County (R)
22 West Ham United (R)
[Post edited 27 Feb 10:19]
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Well done Chelsea! on 13:37 - Feb 27 with 208 viewsthemodfather

they lost 355MILLION QUID!! Will there be any action on this. knowing them they will transfer loss to the local chippy and buy back for a 1p!
then again manure lost billion? under glazers
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Well done Chelsea! on 14:58 - Feb 27 with 95 viewsR_from_afar

Well done Chelsea! on 10:18 - Feb 27 by Padulas_Shampoo

So when you get promoted from the Championship you're supposed to go from effectively an enforced maximum annual loss of £13m p/a then immediately 3 months later compete with a team / teams that are allowed to outspend that rule by 27x. And that's without even considering how grossly favourable those teams' relative incomes are. Yeah that feels fair and likely to encourage competition.

You couldn't make up what has happened to this sport. If you were in the rIght place, at the right time and had the right owners your position is now protected for eternity. This is what elite English football used to look like...

1 Leeds United (C)
2 Manchester United
3 Sheffield Wednesday
4 Arsenal
5 Manchester City
6 Liverpool
7 Aston Villa
8 Nottingham Forest
9 Sheffield United
10 Crystal Palace
11 Queens Park Rangers
12 Everton
13 Wimbledon
14 Chelsea
15 Tottenham Hotspur
16 Southampton
17 Oldham Athletic
18 Norwich City
19 Coventry City
20 Luton Town (R)
21 Notts County (R)
22 West Ham United (R)
[Post edited 27 Feb 10:19]


Great post .

It's a ridiculous situation and one that has absolutely nothing to do with fairness. Basing what a club is allowed to spend on the club's income is intrinsically unfair and loads the dice in favour of the clubs which already enjoy a huge fanbase and a vast stadium. This state of affairs literally requires the smaller clubs to achieve more with less.

Were we ever to get promoted to the Prem, the first thing we would need to do would be to employ a Chief Alchemist .

"Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1."

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