Chelsea have three issues to contend with and the one you reference is indeed for next season but the other two are potentially far more serious:
The new owners have reported potential issues with previous years accounts. Although they are from the Abramovich era it will be the club that receive any punishment. You'd assume there could be some mitigation though.
The Guardian have an ongoing investigation into disguised owner investment by Abramovich involving millions going to club employees, players and agents. Essentially a mirror of what we've been charged with
Powerful chief executive of Chelsea under Abramovich appears in documents showing offshore payments by oligarch
www.theguardian.com
Finally, it is almost certain that they will fail PSR for 2023-24 by a huge margin. They need to raise way over 100 mill net profit on player sales by June 30th this year.