FFP

[London Villan]

Why don't we just sell Bodymoor to ourselves - or the new inner-city academy? Where does it end?

[Dante Lavelli]

On the plus side, Chelsea are establishing bold precedents with the FA which must be applied evenly across the whole pyramid.

We will hopefully be using these loopholes to grow, whereas they’ve cashed in the chips to cover up poor management.

[jwarry]

On the plus side, Chelsea are establishing bold precedents with the FA which must be applied evenly across the whole pyramid.

We will hopefully be using these loopholes to grow, whereas they’ve cashed in the chips to cover up poor management.

I hope you’re right as I can’t see how we can possibly make a £100m profit next year to stay within PSR - assuming my simple maths of a £200m loss the last two years needs a £100m profit to reach the £105m limit for three years ending March 2026?!?

[LeeB]

On the plus side, Chelsea are establishing bold precedents with the FA which must be applied evenly across the whole pyramid.

We will hopefully be using these loopholes to grow, whereas they’ve cashed in the chips to cover up poor management.

They've sold those little blue disabled cars that they used to have parked behind the goal in front of the Shed now.

[AV82EC]

On the plus side, Chelsea are establishing bold precedents with the FA which must be applied evenly across the whole pyramid.

We will hopefully be using these loopholes to grow, whereas they’ve cashed in the chips to cover up poor management.

I hope you’re right as I can’t see how we can possibly make a £100m profit next year to stay within PSR - assuming my simple maths of a £200m loss the last two years needs a £100m profit to reach the £105m limit for three years ending March 2026?!?

It doesn’t work like that. The figures you see within the accounts are not those which are used for PSR.

[Drummond]

We sold a lot of our assets years ago. We sold our ground under this lot all the land that is now industrial estate under (iirc) Lerner.

At the time it seemed like a good Idea, in hindsight...

[Percy McCarthy]

We sold a lot of our assets years ago. We sold our ground under this lot all the land that is now industrial estate under (iirc) Lerner.

At the time it seemed like a good Idea, in hindsight...

Well, it helped get us out of the championship.

[Somniloquism]

UEFA are apparently still assessing the Chelsea Woman's team shenanigans according to the BBC.

Chelsea also have trouble brewing off the pitch.

Uefa will assess the Blues' sale of its women's team to parent company BlueCo at the end of the season.

On Monday, Chelsea reported a pre-tax profit of £128.4m for the year ending June 2024 - their first positive financial results under the ownership of Todd Boehly's Clearlake Capital.

That was largely down to the "repositioning" of their highly successful women's team as a separate business from the men's team, and followed a similar move in their previous financial results - when the club sold two hotels to a sister company to keep them compliant with the Premier League's profit and sustainability rules (PSR).

The Blues have already been cleared of any PSR breaches in January, along with the other 19 top-flight clubs.

However, European football's governing body Uefa has more stringent Financial Fair Play rules which would discount APTs of all its members, including Chelsea's sale of its women's team and two hotels, which were sold for £76.6m during the 2022-23 season.

[Pat Mustard]

A nice ban from UEFA competitions for Chelsea and points deduction for C115y this year come come in very handy.