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BlueCo buy Chelsea FC

Old Shaggy
in General Chelsea FC

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22 hours ago, Bob stark said:

This thread is strange. Can we compete for top 5 with current squad? Yes.

We have top 5 salary.

Whether some of those players are deserving of that salary is the problem 😂

Your overall point is what matters. The money is (was?) there. We can afford to have a squad who competes consistently for top 5, and arguably the league, but BlueCo have doubled down on a weak strategy.

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    8 hours ago, SydneyChelsea said:

    Whether some of those players are deserving of that salary is the problem 😂

    Your overall point is what matters. The money is (was?) there. We can afford to have a squad who competes consistently for top 5, and arguably the league, but BlueCo have doubled down on a weak strategy.

    8 hours ago, SydneyChelsea said:

    Whether some of those players are deserving of that salary is the problem 😂

    Your overall point is what matters. The money is (was?) there. We can afford to have a squad who competes consistently for top 5, and arguably the league, but BlueCo have doubled down on a weak strategy.

    I’ve had this argument with Chelsea fans continually talking about what we can and can’t afford, and how we can’t afford this or pay that which is bullsh*t.

    The money is and has been there it’s just being spent wrong.

    We just missed out to a kid who went to Brighton for big money, hopefully that’s Alonso’s input. “If we spend £30m on another teenage winger can I still get a centre half or keeper,”? “N0,” “then dont do it we have enough teenage wingers”. Otherwise I think these clowns would have gone again. They will probably just buy him from Brighton for £60m in a few years anyway.

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    Think it might be tricky to get quality in this summer with some of these ridiculous prices, we might also struggle to move players on if our lot join in. Forest are demanding £120m for Anderson, West Ham £85m for Fernandes, Palace £100m for Wharton, and we are also asking for £120m for Enzo.

    1 hour ago, markpitts said:

    Think it might be tricky to get quality in this summer with some of these ridiculous prices, we might also struggle to move players on if our lot join in. Forest are demanding £120m for Anderson, West Ham £85m for Fernandes, Palace £100m for Wharton, and we are also asking for £120m for Enzo.

    Easy answer, explore outside the Premier League.

    Antonio Silva at Benfica, a CB @SydneyChelsea and I have admired for a while, would be a perfect complement to Colwill. Available for £35m now that he's on his final 2 years.

    Morten Hjulmand at Sporting is a DM with a great passing range almost Alonso esq. Would bring a lot of leadership qualities too. Seeing reports he'd be available for £40m.

    That's two major signings without even breaking £80m.

    What's the situation with the amount of money we have available to spend in the summer? I heard that most of the CWC money is on this season's account? .

    Anyone know what our overall situation is with regard to what we can spend?

    Thanks

    27 minutes ago, The Rising Sun said:

    What's the situation with the amount of money we have available to spend in the summer? I heard that most of the CWC money is on this season's account? .

    Anyone know what our overall situation is with regard to what we can spend?

    Thanks

    We are able to book all prizemoney and broadcast money earned after 1 July 2025 for this season, so basically that is anything after the R16 in the CWC + CL money. All up, we're probably looking at around £120m or so.

    The majority of our transfer revenue (~£290m) is also accounted for in this period, as most sales happened after 1 July. So that's about £410m in revenue there + the ~£300m in other revenue the club usually makes. All in all, BlueCo's claim of £700m projected revenue for 25/26 may not be far off the mark, albeit thanks to flexible accounting.

    In terms of expenses, the biggest issue is the reportedly highly-incentivised contracts mean a increased wage bill this season. Given it was £338m in 24/25 and we've added even more expensive players, that's going to be pushing £400m this season especially factoring Sterling's payout. This wage bill will eat through the majority of the bonus CWC, CL and transfer sales revenue. We've also expanded the operational staff so that will eat into a lot of the remaining revenue, but fortunately the purchases of Pedro, Gittens, Garnacho and Hato only cost £26m in amortised costs this season.

    Oh, and the 60% payrises for directors too.

    So all-in-all we llikely go into next window with a modest profit which should be augmented by player sales. The real issue is that with no CL football and no shirt sponsor, that is all the revenue we can expect going into 27/28. Missing out on CL would see the club in dire straits next season.

    Edited by SydneyChelsea

    On 09/06/2026 at 16:11, C3blue said:

    I’ve had this argument with Chelsea fans continually talking about what we can and can’t afford, and how we can’t afford this or pay that which is bullsh*t.

    The money is and has been there it’s just being spent wrong.

    We just missed out to a kid who went to Brighton for big money, hopefully that’s Alonso’s input. “If we spend £30m on another teenage winger can I still get a centre half or keeper,”? “N0,” “then dont do it we have enough teenage wingers”. Otherwise I think these clowns would have gone again. They will probably just buy him from Brighton for £60m in a few years anyway.

    The money is there however let's just last summer as example. If you combine Garnacho and Gittens transfer, you probably get Semenyo.

    The problem is Semenyo is 26, 4 years from now you cannot sell him as he will be 30 on massive wages. So in 4 years you need to shell another 70 m.

    With gittens and garnacho, 4 years from now they will be only 25. Even if both flop you can probably sell them 25 m each and get 50 m to sign another winger.

    45 minutes ago, Bob stark said:

    The money is there however let's just last summer as example. If you combine Garnacho and Gittens transfer, you probably get Semenyo.

    The problem is Semenyo is 26, 4 years from now you cannot sell him as he will be 30 on massive wages. So in 4 years you need to shell another 70 m.

    With gittens and garnacho, 4 years from now they will be only 25. Even if both flop you can probably sell them 25 m each and get 50 m to sign another winger.

    This is the BlueCo model but it overemphasises the likelihood of selling younger players at a book profit, and also under-emphasises the overall FFP/PSR impact that the right player has or the opportunity costs of having to persevere with poor players.

    Wages are not an issue if the player is good and/or the contract is right. Yes, it is easier in theory to sell a 'low-wage' player but 1) it's hard to sell an underperforming player and 2) BlueCo are basically lying about actually paying low wages to these players, otherwise our accounts would be in better shape and more clubs would have been interested in the likes of Badiashile and Disasi. As a PL club, any "low" wages we pay are still likely to be unaffordable for any club outside England not called PSG, Real Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern or Atletico Madrid.

    Using the Semenyo example, had we signed him instead of Garnacho and Gittens for the same cost, we likely make top 4. That's a difference of £20m in PL prize money alone this season. That doesn't even include CL revenue for next season, which at minimum is going to be ~£50m, so that's £70m right off the bat. That's not even taking into account the particulars of Chelsea's situation, which include being able to get a better shirt sponsor etc.

    So assuming we miraculously sell Garnacho and Gittens for £70m this season and wipe out their book value, we're still going to have to buy a replacement player (say £40m) and have to foot the opportunity cost bill of finishing mid-table (£70m as above). That's £110m in net expenditure, whereas Semenyo could have been £70m in net profit for PSR purposes.

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    36 minutes ago, SydneyChelsea said:

    This is the BlueCo model but it overemphasises the likelihood of selling younger players at a book profit, and also under-emphasises the overall FFP/PSR impact that the right player has or the opportunity costs of having to persevere with poor players.

    Wages are not an issue if the player is good and/or the contract is right. Yes, it is easier in theory to sell a 'low-wage' player but 1) it's hard to sell an underperforming player and 2) BlueCo are basically lying about actually paying low wages to these players, otherwise our accounts would be in better shape and more clubs would have been interested in the likes of Badiashile and Disasi. As a PL club, any "low" wages we pay are still likely to be unaffordable for any club outside England not called PSG, Real Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern or Atletico Madrid.

    Using the Semenyo example, had we signed him instead of Garnacho and Gittens for the same cost, we likely make top 4. That's a difference of £20m in PL prize money alone this season. That doesn't even include CL revenue for next season, which at minimum is going to be ~£50m, so that's £70m right off the bat. That's not even taking into account the particulars of Chelsea's situation, which include being able to get a better shirt sponsor etc.

    So assuming we miraculously sell Garnacho and Gittens for £70m this season and wipe out their book value, we're still going to have to buy a replacement player (say £40m) and have to foot the opportunity cost bill of finishing mid-table (£70m as above). That's £110m in net expenditure, whereas Semenyo could have been £70m in net profit for PSR purposes.

    If signing Semenyo guarantee cl then blue co would have signed Semenyo but I am not sure this true. If you sign Semenyo and you don't finish top 5,then it is worse.

    It’s our obsession with resale value that has built this in experienced un balanced squad and yet most of our players sell on value has decreased where as city could sell Semenyo tomorrow for a profit having benefited from his performances bagging 2 cups and pushing Arsenal for the title so the model defo needs tweaking I think.

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    8 hours ago, TheCeleryKing said:

    I think we need to get some extra sporting Directors. Maybe 5 isn't enough?

    What you thinking 11 a side? You’re responsible for our terrible left back your fired….. wait that’s accountability??? No that don’t work!

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