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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.
To clarify, we all know the real reason we lost was due to the change in match thread starter because the unwritten law is that the previous one should have "stayed on" having been a rarely sighted match thread starter, chicken dinner.
I pity the fool that starts the next match thread...
Is the, us nearly always being one of the teams that kick off later on a midweek game, the same fallacy as we always do badly against struggling teams, or does it just feel that way?