Footballing-wise, I'm really not a fan of Felix's game. He's just not competitive enough for me. He's still young and can, potentially, still learn a thing or two, but I'm not crazy about having him in the roster. He's way too different from Cole to work as his backup.

Oh well, let's see.

1 hour ago, Deino said:

These are just things we have to do to get first pick on any of his players. It is what it is.

What ? We have to buy players we don't want ??

1 hour ago, Sconnie Blue said:

I read that including bonuses, the Félix deal has us earn a profit. The bonuses must be achievable throughout his 2 years. I’d imagine the sell on clause is there only if he leaves before achieving those bonuses.

Does they also take into account the wages we've paid him ??

2 hours ago, The Rising Sun said:

Does they also take into account the wages we've paid him ??

That’s a good point often overlooked in a lot of these discussions. Transfer and loan fees aside what about the wages. Often we are still partially paying these guys.

I just read Fulham want Sterling on loan next season and want to pay us a £5m loan fee. Ok but if we’re still paying half his wages which they want then they ain’t really paying us a loan fee are they. The better deal was Arsenal covering his Salary.

Clearlake have decided to go large young squad on less wages, Liverpool have gone for a thinner elite squad on top wages. Let’s see which one is most successful.

Trophies not PSR. Trophies.

30 minutes ago, C3blue said:

That’s a good point often overlooked in a lot of these discussions. Transfer and loan fees aside what about the wages. Often we are still partially paying these guys.

I just read Fulham want Sterling on loan next season and want to pay us a £5m loan fee. Ok but if we’re still paying half his wages which they want then they ain’t really paying us a loan fee are they. The better deal was Arsenal covering his Salary.

Clearlake have decided to go large young squad on less wages, Liverpool have gone for a thinner elite squad on top wages. Let’s see which one is most successful.

Trophies not PSR. Trophies.

Didn't Arsenal only cover half his wages last season ?

<EDIT: and it might even be less than that. Capology show Arsenal paying £110K and Chelsea paying £215K towards Sterling's wages in 24/25.

Capology.com

2024-2025 Arsenal FC Salaries and Contracts

Capology | Football Salaries & Finances

Capology.com

2024-2025 Chelsea FC Salaries and Contracts

Capology | Football Salaries & Finances

Edited July 28, 2025Jul 28 by Sexyfootball

6 minutes ago, Sexyfootball said:

Didn't Arsenal only cover half his wages last season ?

<EDIT: and it might even be less than that. Capology show Arsenal paying £110K and Chelsea paying £215K towards Sterling's wages in 24/25.

Capology.com

2024-2025 Arsenal FC Salaries and Contracts

Capology | Football Salaries & Finances

Capology.com

2024-2025 Chelsea FC Salaries and Contracts

Capology | Football Salaries & Finances

Well that’s even worse.I know they have reduced salaries since Sterling which must help but how many of these deals are we subsidising and isn’t the whole amortisation bo**ocks based on the premise you have had their services during that period not half paid them to be somewhere else? This is where the bloated squad becomes a real issue.

11 hours ago, Sexyfootball said:

Didn't Arsenal only cover half his wages last season ?

<EDIT: and it might even be less than that. Capology show Arsenal paying £110K and Chelsea paying £215K towards Sterling's wages in 24/25.

Capology.com

2024-2025 Arsenal FC Salaries and Contracts

Capology | Football Salaries & Finances

Capology.com

2024-2025 Chelsea FC Salaries and Contracts

Capology | Football Salaries & Finances

I would take Capology with the proverbial pinch. They don't have access to clubs' books. A mixture of rumour and harvested media reports.

11 hours ago, C3blue said:

Well that’s even worse.I know they have reduced salaries since Sterling which must help but how many of these deals are we subsidising and isn’t the whole amortisation bo**ocks based on the premise you have had their services during that period not half paid them to be somewhere else? This is where the bloated squad becomes a real issue.

Arsenal said to be contributing just £100,000-a-week to Raheem Sterling salary

On Friday night, Miguel Delaney reported on X – as relayed by TBR Football – that Arsenal will not be paying a single penny in loan fees for Sterling.

To add to that, the Gunners will be covering less than 50 percent of his wages too, something Fabrizio Romano also mentioned on his deadline-day live-stream on Playback late on Friday night.

This would mean paying less than £162,500-a-week, which in itself is a relatively low contribution for the Gunners to make to Sterling’s £325,000-a-week sal

ary.

1 hour ago, The Rising Sun said:

Arsenal said to be contributing just £100,000-a-week to Raheem Sterling salary

On Friday night, Miguel Delaney reported on X – as relayed by TBR Football – that Arsenal will not be paying a single penny in loan fees for Sterling.

To add to that, the Gunners will be covering less than 50 percent of his wages too, something Fabrizio Romano also mentioned on his deadline-day live-stream on Playback late on Friday night.

This would mean paying less than £162,500-a-week, which in itself is a relatively low contribution for the Gunners to make to Sterling’s £325,000-a-week sal

ary.

Fulham it is then🙄

Confirmed Felix has left

Do we bother to move his thread away from anything Chelsea related or do we keep it here until we are landed with him again?

No mention of the fee, but officially confirmed by the club.

Joao Felix completes Al-Nassr move

Thank you Joao, good luck for the future.👍

5 minutes ago, bluedave said:

No mention of the fee, but officially confirmed by the club.

Joao Felix completes Al-Nassr move

Heeerrreee we gooooooooo

£25m lol

39 minutes ago, Valerie said:

Do we bother to move his thread away from anything Chelsea related or do we keep it here until we are landed with him again?

Let’s wait for the add ons😏

6 hours ago, dermott said:

I would take Capology with the proverbial pinch. They don't have access to clubs' books. A mixture of rumour and harvested media reports.

Yes indeed, and hence why I said it "might" be less !

I'll never understand the hate he got from some of the fans, he wasn't always consistent but he was a fun player to watch. In an era where players are taught to be so rigid that they're a slave to their manager's system it's nice to see sometimes. Good luck to him and I look forward to his return in 2027.

3 hours ago, Valerie said:

Do we bother to move his thread away from anything Chelsea related or do we keep it here until we are landed with him again?

My guess is that he either a) w stay in Saudi for 2 years then sign on a free to Benfica or b) in a year sign for Benfica for a fee of around £25 million

The current rate is 0.87 € to the £. €30 million = £26.1 m. He was signed by us for an initial £42 million with circa £4.3 m in add ons. I would doubt any of his add ons were triggered but let’s assume another £1 million at most so let’s say he cost £43 million. So around £16.9 million down. However thankfully we received £5 million loan fee so ignoring amortisation ( yep the magical word) that’s £11.9 loss

If you’re interested in amortisation then £43 m/5 years =£8.6/year but he has only been a Chelsea player for 11 months so around £8 million. So £3.9 accounting loss.

So it’s all about the add ons. They are said to total £17.6 million. We haven’t got a clue what they are if we get close to £11.9 extra that will be incredible. I suspect that the hope is a significant chunk of those add ons will come before the end of our current accounting year. The Saudi Pro league ends on 21 May 26. Forty days before the account year ends on

Of course he shouldn’t have been signed in the first place and that goes without saying but to

Cole Palmer isn’t real

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On 29/07/2025 at 02:50, The Rising Sun said:

What ? We have to buy players we don't want ??

There will always be a scratch my back, I'll scratch your deals going on, it happens. How did you think we get to sign Quenda?

I'm going to say something controversial. We shouldn't have sold him. This guy has played in systems where the manager wants them to be part of a machine rather than a coach that lets him play with freedom. Atletico Madrid, Chelsea (both times), AC Milan, all these teams are managed by a coach that wants their players to play like robots. With Palmer injured, we wouldn't need a backup like Buonanotte, who is massively inferior to Felix in every way and we wouldn't have needed to sign one of Gittens or Garnacho.

27 minutes ago, Scott Harris said:

I'm going to say something controversial. We shouldn't have sold him. This guy has played in systems where the manager wants them to be part of a machine rather than a coach that lets him play with freedom. Atletico Madrid, Chelsea (both times), AC Milan, all these teams are managed by a coach that wants their players to play like robots. With Palmer injured, we wouldn't need a backup like Buonanotte, who is massively inferior to Felix in every way and we wouldn't have needed to sign one of Gittens or Garnacho.

Felix's problem was never tactical, it was his own limited ability. He'd beat a player or do something fancy, only for his final ball/execution (the thing that actually matters) to be incredibly bad. It's followed him his entire career. Even at Saudi there are clips of him dribbling past players and it conveniently ends right before he does a sh*t pass.

I still remember under Potter in the Champions League tie against Real Madrid. He was away on goal by himself and instead of taking a touch inside which would've put him in front of the CB, he took a touch out wide away from goal where the CB eventually caught up. I remember during halftime Henry highlighted that moment and was grilling Felix. Saying any top player wouldn't do that.

No way there's still Felix shouts in 2025. His problem was that he was sh*te.