Chelsea's annual wage bill has soared to £172.5million

last SG · 2011-02-05T12:26:26+00:00

everything starts with money.they have a good academy which is producing good footaballers. scott sinclair, bensahar, mirslov stoch etc...u just need time fo...

zocoss SG

Champions: But Chelsea have still posted an enormous loss

Chelsea have posted another enormous loss, despite a successful Double-winning season. The Blues lost £70.9m last season despite winning both the Premier League title and FA Cup.

Announcing financial results for the 12 months to June 30, 2010, Chelsea said turnover increased by 1.2 percent to £205.8m but that a reduction in the value of its squad was the main reason for the loss.

Chelsea chief executive Ron Gourlay highlighted the fact that the club has become cash positive, with a surplus of £3.8m, compared to an outflow of £16.9m for the previous season.

'The reduction in operating losses and increased sales in 2009-10 shows that we are moving in the right direction, especially when viewed against the difficult macroeconomic environment,' Gourlay said. 'The club is in a strong position to meet the challenges of UEFA 'financial fair play' initiatives, which will be relevant to the financial statements to be released in early 2013.'

UEFA will ban clubs from its European competitions, including the lucrative Champions League, from 2012 if they go into debt on football-related business.

'That the club was cash generative in the year when we recorded a historic FAPL and FA Cup double is a great encouragement and demonstrates significant progress as regards our financial results,' chairman Bruce Buck said.

And finances will be hit further if they manage to complete their signing of Liverpool superstar Fernando Torres for £50m.

iceFatboy SG

cheap la..

Rock^Star SG

man city and chelsea like to buy proven players. Utd and arsenal like to invest in youth.

iceFatboy SG

man city and chelsea like to buy proven players. Utd and arsenal like to invest in youth.

instant noodles, instant results mah..

Rock^Star SG

instant money, instant football.

charleslee SG

good luck to chelsea next season, let's see how are they gonna rebuilt their aging squad..sack ancelotti also need $$, buy new young players also need $$, best part, Fifa financial fair play will come in the next transfer season ....GG to them..

KENNY DULLFOOL SG

instant money, instant football.

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reyes SG

man utd are hardly investing in youth these days.

since when did they nature their own players these days?

nani, anderson was bought for a total of 30million.

berbatov was bought for around 30million.

valencia was around 18million.

carrick around 18million from spurs.

maybe fletcher, o shea, brown, was the latest batch from youth academy.

southampton was much better at nuturing youth. walcott, bale and up and coming alex chamb. ( replace fabregas).

reyes SG

chelsea break even was not on the agenda of roman. the scale of salary by terry, lampard, drogba, cole, can already bankrupt most teams.

sg_forum SG

chelsea break even was not on the agenda of roman. the scale of salary by terry, lampard, drogba, cole, can already bankrupt most teams.

Roman's agenda is to win CL...after that bye bye and focus on Russian football...

iceFatboy SG

Roman's agenda is to win CL...after that bye bye and focus on Russian football...

the small matter of the World Cup to finance.

Rock^Star SG

man utd are hardly investing in youth these days.

since when did they nature their own players these days?

nani, anderson was bought for a total of 30million.

berbatov was bought for around 30million.

valencia was around 18million.

carrick around 18million from spurs.

maybe fletcher, o shea, brown, was the latest batch from youth academy.

southampton was much better at nuturing youth. walcott, bale and up and coming alex chamb. ( replace fabregas).

hernandez, ronaldo, rooney, nani, anderson, fabio, rafael, gibson, evans, cleverly, welbeck have all been at some time youth players. There has to be a mixture of heavy buying and youth investment.

Under fergie, there is a good chance they are developed into world class players.

mrwonderful SG

unless his new signings prove themselves, i dont see chelsea able to win CL this season.

namely the defence is getting worse, inc terry making more mistakes,

midfield losing creativity inc lampard and essien off form and lack of steel when ballack left,

attack losing strength because drogba, anelka off form.

reyes SG

hernandez, ronaldo, rooney, nani, anderson, fabio, rafael, gibson, evans, cleverly, welbeck have all been at some time youth players. There has to be a mixture of heavy buying and youth investment.

Under fergie, there is a good chance they are developed into world class players.

but these player are already costing alot of money except evans, rafael, welbeck.

and most are already playing in top clubs before fergie snap them up at 15-20million pound each. they are even more expensive than VDV of spurs,

CKeer SG

man utd are hardly investing in youth these days.

since when did they nature their own players these days?

nani, anderson was bought for a total of 30million.

berbatov was bought for around 30million.

valencia was around 18million.

carrick around 18million from spurs.

maybe fletcher, o shea, brown, was the latest batch from youth academy.

southampton was much better at nuturing youth. walcott, bale and up and coming alex chamb. ( replace fabregas).

but these player are already costing alot of money except evans, rafael, welbeck.

and most are already playing in top clubs before fergie snap them up at 15-20million pound each. they are even more expensive than VDV of spurs,

I wont blame you for being ill-informed about the size of the transfer fees involve as you're no United fan and hardly a football fan if i scrutinize and analyze the points you've made:

"man utd are hardly investing in youth these days." - I'm sorry, but where does this sentence come about?

United has currently 9 players out on loan (age): Welback (20), Macheda (19), De Laet (22), Corry Evans (20), Mame Biram Diouf (23), Cleverley (21), Ajose (19), Amos (20), Dudgeon (20).

Looking purely at these few years, United had/has:

Rafael and Fabio were signed for a combined total of 5.2m

Nurtured youths who went on to make a name of themselves elsewhere: Giuseppe Rossi, Zoran Tosic, Chris Eagles, Sylvian Ebanks-Blake, Fraizer Campbell, Ryan Shawcross, Phil Bardsley, Danny Simpson

Earlier they also had: David Healy, Luke Chadwick, Ronnie Wallwork, Danny Higginbotham, Danny Pugh

And then there's Wes Brown, John O'Shea, Darren Fletcher, Gibson, Jonny Evans, Welback, Smalling, Hernandez even Bebe and Obertan!

And there're are lesser known youth players like Oliver Gill (Son of David Gill, United's CEO), Recce Brown (Brother of Wes Brown).

And there are so many that I might have missed out too.

Southampton? I've mentioned before, Bale took 3 years to get to where he is now. Is Walcott the "new Henry" as proclaimed earlier? Don't kid yourself. And do you know that Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain play mostly on the wings? How can he replace a central midfielder Fabregas?

By the way, why is Van der Vaart even in the picture? Is he a youth player in your eyes?

Y_Shun SG

The few aging players in Chelsea are Ashely Cole, Terry, Lampard, Drogba and Anelka. (Benayoun if you want to include...)

For Ashely Cole, there are already understudy for him... such as van Anholt + Ryan Betrand... although I think Chelsea might use Zhrikov as a leftback instead.

For Terry there is Jeffery Bruma

For Lampard there is Josh McEachran to replace him...

For Drogba/Anelka there is Sturridge or Gael Kakuta.

So whats with the problem of replacing these aging players?

sg_forum SG

The few aging players in Chelsea are Ashely Cole, Terry, Lampard, Drogba and Anelka. (Benayoun if you want to include...)

For Ashely Cole, there are already understudy for him... such as van Anholt + Ryan Betrand... although I think Chelsea might use Zhrikov as a leftback instead.

For Terry there is Jeffery Bruma

For Lampard there is Josh McEachran to replace him...

For Drogba/Anelka there is Sturridge or Gael Kakuta.

So whats with the problem of replacing these aging players?

out of these Chelsea young players only McEachran who looks promising although I think Sturridge is going to be good as well but the rest I am not very sure. Just my opinion cos I don't really watch Chelsea reserve game...only watched McEachran and Sturridge when they play in the first team..

Rock^Star SG

but these player are already costing alot of money except evans, rafael, welbeck.

and most are already playing in top clubs before fergie snap them up at 15-20million pound each. they are even more expensive than VDV of spurs,

Refer to CKeer's answer lol. Anyway, they have spent a lot on big money transfers but most of them are in youth. That's an investment in youth right? lol. Which part you dun understand bro.

nature-ones SG

lmao chelsea has spent another 50m of signing Torres from liverpool

dragg SG

I wont blame you for being ill-informed about the size of the transfer fees involve as you're no United fan and hardly a football fan if i scrutinize and analyze the points you've made:

"man utd are hardly investing in youth these days." - I'm sorry, but where does this sentence come about?

United has currently 9 players out on loan (age): Welback (20), Macheda (19), De Laet (22), Corry Evans (20), Mame Biram Diouf (23), Cleverley (21), Ajose (19), Amos (20), Dudgeon (20).

Looking purely at these few years, United had/has:

Rafael and Fabio were signed for a combined total of 5.2m

Nurtured youths who went on to make a name of themselves elsewhere: Giuseppe Rossi, Zoran Tosic, Chris Eagles, Sylvian Ebanks-Blake, Fraizer Campbell, Ryan Shawcross, Phil Bardsley, Danny Simpson

And there're are lesser known youth players like Oliver Gill (Son of David Gill, United's CEO), Recce Brown (Brother of Wes Brown).

And there are so many that I might have missed out too.

By the way, why is Van der Vaart even in the picture? Is he a youth player in your eyes?

i think he is comparing man u/chelsea to arsenal.

anyway the biggest team is man u. the most successful team is man u. money to success ratio i also believe man u is highest.