| Well done Chelsea! on 19:08 - Feb 26 with 1061 views | Bluce_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 984 views | nix |
Oh dear. Never mind. |  | | |
| Well done Chelsea! on 19:45 - Feb 26 with 957 views | Northernr |
I mean, why do we bother? |  | | |
| Well done Chelsea! on 20:08 - Feb 26 with 872 views | colinallcars |
| 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” |  | | |
| Well done Chelsea! on 20:37 - Feb 26 with 810 views | DWQPR |
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 761 views | 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. | | | |
| Well done Chelsea! on 21:09 - Feb 26 with 680 views | hertshoops |
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 ? |  | | |
| Well done Chelsea! on 21:28 - Feb 26 with 609 views | FredManRave |
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 552 views | 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 .
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| Well done Chelsea! on 23:06 - Feb 26 with 392 views | Boston |
| 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 369 views | Rs_Holy |
Wow ... thats nearly 1 million squids a day .... think about how crass that is! |  | | |
| Well done Chelsea! on 23:26 - Feb 26 with 356 views | HAYESBOY |
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 300 views | BushRanger82 |
| 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. |  | | |
| Well done Chelsea! on 02:41 - Feb 27 with 169 views | SydneyRs |
Maybe all their plastic online fans from Nigeria etc could send the club some money? | | | |
| Well done Chelsea! on 06:35 - Feb 27 with 56 views | Wilkinswatercarrier |
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.
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