Chelsea Thread - 2022/23 | Pochettino confirmed as new manager

[KS55]

Amortisation costs now come into the maximum spending limit of %age of earnings, so this change could be significant.

 

[terraloon]

IMO No club will ever sign a player using the Webster ruling because it will open a pandoras box that none of them want to see. The benefit of buying out Haaland's contract would be completely overshadowed by assets like Camavinga, Vinicius, Valverde being vulnerable to being bought for jsut the remaining value of their wages.

It will open a can of worms of that there is no doubt and yes only a couple of players have bought themselves out of their contracts but the rules are in place and I very much believe in the saying if it can happen it will

 

[terraloon]

The fact it's UEFA not the PL being the ones to move on it says to me it's European clubs putting pressure on, not domestic rivals. Just because we've had a few briefings in the papers that the PL clubs are getting a bit upset about the goings on at Chelsea doesn't mean Bayern, PSG, Real etc. are OK with it.

Clubs in Spain have and still do sign players on contracts over 5 years.

Chelsea aren’t the only club in the PL who sign players on contracts over 5 years . City for instance currently have 8 Newcastle 7 Utd 3 ( including Harry Ms 7 year deal )and yes I accept some may have been extensions the fact remains that the consequence of all these long contracts it reduces the amortisation charge.

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

Hats off to the BBC - they've managed to do an article on this change without mentioning city.

 

[halfcenturyup]

You would struggle to find a more self interested, more litigious group of people than the owners of the 20 PL clubs and their upper management. These are people who try to get each other banned over £25,000 going to an academy player's parent.

So it's very hard to imagine them just letting Chelsea get 1.5Bn written off, unless it was in a way expressly allowed by the rules.

Yes, you would think so.

 

[halfcenturyup]

5 years is the legal limit to employment contract length in France & Germany which is probably why UEFA set it there. English clubs are geting a massive advantage if they can spread cost over 6,7,8 while they're stuck to 5.

Christ. That's three times I have agreed with you in the last week. I am feeling a little dirty.

 

[SWP's back]

I honestly just laugh when I see Arsenal, Chelsea, United and City fans all simultaneously claim there is a long standing agenda against their club only and the powers that be are all working together behind the scenes to stop them progressing and winning.

A point I often make in the VAR thread although it has been ignoring a lot of penalties for us in the last few games.

 

[halfcenturyup]

Amortisation costs now come into the maximum spending limit of %age of earnings, so this change could be significant.

Well yes, that's why it was an obvious FFP dodge. i like @Vialli98 as a poster, but he would be doing himself a favour by just saying that.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Well yes, that's why it was an obvious FFP dodge. i like @Vialli98 as a poster, but he would be doing himself a favour by just saying that.

It's not strictly in itself a dodge. If you sign a contract, which is what is being amortised, then accounting principles require you to spread the cost over the life of the contract. Like its pissing about over Related Party Transactions, UEFA is attempting to set itself up as some sort of alternative accounting body.

And potentially they've fucked up a lot of clubs' calculations over the new FFP regime, when many would have been looking at contract extensions to spread out amortisation over longer periods. But as we know only too well, fucking up FFP calculations is a trick they've pulled before!

 

[SWP's back]

5 years is the legal limit to employment contract length in France & Germany which is probably why UEFA set it there. English clubs are geting a massive advantage if they can spread cost over 6,7,8 while they're stuck to 5.

Agree but that’s always the case with different justifications. English clubs (well the players) have to pay 45% tax on players income to HMRC so in effect the PL clubs have to pay players nearly double to give the player the same net income as Monaco do.