If it goes pear shaped they are fucked though, good luck moving out bad buys on good money and crazy long term contracts.It does apply, and that’s why they are offering 7.5 and 8.5 year contracts, because FFP applies and this allows them to effectively halve the annual cost in comparison to a standard contract length. So they can in theory spend double what a team offering 4 year deals can. But the downside is they are paying these deals off for twice as long. They counter that by buying young, gifted players, presumably with the thought process of heavily reducing spending after this initial investment phase. It might work for them in terms of success on the pitch, or it might not. But what they’re unlikely to do is fail FFP as their contract strategy shows they are not ignoring it.
Plus they need to replace their center backs in a year or two.
Hahaha I forgot about all those. Cant keep up, but Chalobah is crap, Kouibaly is in his 30s and apart form Fofana the other are fullbacks no?Badashile, fofana, colwill, chalobah, koulibaly prob enough. James and cucurella can both play wide CB in a three.
Lol its hard to keep up :)If only theyd bought 2 very good CBs this season aged 21 and 22...
Mourinho return?Chelsea are gonna be fucking ridiculous next season! Don’t see potter being the manager mind but if they get someone like Enrique in with them players they will be extremely hard to beat imo
unless they win it this yearThey're going to have 4 new Jan signings that can't play in the CL.
As things currently stand, they won't be in it next season either.