Chelsea

[Assassin]

In full tits up mode

[John Barnes]

they were atrocious

[Buzzo]

Caicedo looks bang average. They have massively over paid for him. Looks a £30-40m player at best.

[Assassin]

Caicedo looks bang average. They have massively over paid for him. Looks a £30-40m player at best.

All those over inflated transfer fees, along with the long term high cost contracts are a stroke of genius. What could go wrong?

[Cormack74]

To think that for years if we got a point away there it was a decent result, yet this season it turns out a draw was 2 points dropped

[spud_gun]

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[Buzzo]

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[Fosterbloke]

Chelsea are utter muck, total ****.

They won't get relegated but they'll be ****ed financially.

[vlahka]

Just spend another billion in january. Hope to strike something.

[Cormack74]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2023/10/30/chelsea-transfers-samuel-etoo-willian-investigated-russia/

The Premier League is scrutinising Chelsea’s signings of Willian and Samuel Eto’o as part of a wider probe into offshore payments during Roman Abramovich’s era.

Telegraph Sport reported more than a year ago how concerns over a wide array of historic payments had been raised prior to the Todd Boehly-led takeover. Just days before the £2.5 billion deal, £100 million was wiped off the sale price to cover “unforeseen liabilities”.

Third-party sources involved in the deal suspected immediately that Chelsea could be left at risk of profit and sustainability breaches over historic payments. The club vehemently dismissed such a prospect at the time.

However, investigations by the league were launched after Chelsea’s new owners subsequently voluntarily reported financial transactions between 2012 and 2019 to the FA, Premier League and Uefa.

It has now emerged, initially via a report in The Times, that the incoming transfers of Brazilian midfielder Willian and Cameroonian forward Eto’o, both from the Russian club Anzhi Makhachkala in August 2013, are part of the investigation

Payments may have been made to “Russian entities” as Willian joined Chelsea for £30 million before Eto’o joined on a free transfer the day afterwards. There is no suggestion either player had any knowledge of such payments.

The Premier League, which has powers to potentially dock points or heavily fine, is understood to be investigating millions of pounds paid to around six offshore companies.

[vlahka]

I'd bet anything haaland got an offshore gift considering how cheap he was. And how is it taking 10 years for them to look into stuff. They've already done the damage against other teams with their performances.

[Harv]

...and the the 115 charges they hit City with get ignored.

This league is rotten to the core.

[Rafa Justice]

I'd bet anything haaland got an offshore gift considering how cheap he was. And how is it taking 10 years for them to look into stuff. They've already done the damage against other teams with their performances.

Makes you wonder if there's any point watching football in this country.

[vlahka]

Makes you wonder if there's any point watching football in this country.

The worst part is the league is so popular around the world that they can afford to do underhanded dodgy stuff consistantly and it wont matter. They win we lose and nothing will change. I'm not as fanatical about our performances anymore since I know in the background refs will screw with teams and other teams will get a helping hand. So we lose we lose. We win at least I am entertained for a couple years for it. The euro comp should be the most entertaining since theres no corruption from the people who run the prem there.

[Kenneth]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/15/chelsea-fc-face-new-questions-over-how-roman-abramovich-funded-success

Chelsea FC face new questions over how Roman Abramovich funded success
Leaked files reveal secret payments that may have breached football’s strict ‘financial fair play’ rules

…

Beneficiaries appear to include the agent of the star player Eden Hazard, an associate of the title-winning manager Antonio Conte and Chelsea FC officials. Other payments appear to have been connected to the purchase of the players Willian and Samuel Eto’o.

The payments have come to light thanks to an international investigation known as Cyprus Confidential, a cache of 3.6m offshore records leaked to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and Germany’s Paper Trail Media, which shared access with the Guardian, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) and other media.

Chelsea’s finances are already being examined by the Premier League in an investigation that runs from 2012 to 2019, after the west London club’s new ownership regime voluntarily reported that “incomplete financial information” had been submitted during Abramovich’s tenure.…