Chelsea is said to mobilize more than £ 60 million to sell players to register new players to the Champions League next season, with UEFA financial regulations forcing the Blues to balance.
Chelsea is on the way to win the “Disbance” at the FIFA Club World Cup: The victory over Palmeiras in the quarterfinals has brought in £ 15.6 million and raised the total amount of money collected in this campaign so far to nearly £ 60 million. This is really an unexpected amount, especially after UEFA issued the biggest fine for the West London team last week – 27 million pounds without conditions with an additional threat to fines £ 51.8 million, part of the agreement for violating the financial rules of this agency.
However, not the fine can have a special sanctions for Chelsea. Instead, it was the sports sanctions that the club agreed, as well as Aston Villa – the team was similar punishment, creating an interesting motivation for the rest of the summer transfer period – and capable of increasing the pressure to sell players.
Chelsea will not be able to register their players for the Champions League playground next season unless “the balance of their transfer in 'list A' is positive”. It is a requirement applied in at least two seasons. In short, that means any expenditure to add to the list of their registered squads with UEFA must be covered by the income of the upcoming players. No bonuses of the World Cup Club can help it.
Currently, Chelsea's summer contracts such as Liam Delap, Joao Pedro, Jamie Gittens, Estevao Willian, Dario Essugo and Mamadou Sarr cannot play in UEFA tournaments unless Chelsea's transfer fee is greater than the transfer cost.
Chelsea's “list A” refers to the last squad they have registered with UEFA, transferred in February for the knockout qualifying round of the Conference League. It is important that Romeo Lavia and Wesley Fofana will also need to be registered, because they are not in that “list of A”.
They, along with new contracts, will increase the cost of the transferred column. The cost of registering a new contract will take into account the salary and transfer fee. Therefore, the contract worth 30 million pounds of Delap, equally divided by this 5 -year contract of this player, will be up to 6 million pounds for this year. UEFA does not accept a contract with a period of more than 5 years, but they have limited in 2023.
Only preliminary depreciation fee, excluding salary costs, shows that Chelsea may need to search more than £ 60 million to be able to register all the players mentioned above and meet the “positive balance” requirements of UEFA. Despite any new contract for players like Fofana or Lavia, it can reduce their depreciation fee, the pressure to sell to sales.
Chelsea had to act quickly in the transfer market, with names like Joao Felix, Raheem Sterling and Christopher Nkunku are capable of balancing books. The club will also consider suggestions for Noni Madueke, who has received great attention from Arsenal. With UEFA's 2/9 registration time limit, sales, not the new contract signing, is now the top priority of Chelsea.