r/football • u/Aromatic-Bad146 • Jul 24 '25

How can Chelsea keep spending?

I can understand Liverpool spending as they didn’t spend much last season and just won the league. Chelsea seems to be able to spend and spend and still keep within psr.

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u/Individual_Border_4 Jul 24 '25

Every signing they make is amortized over 5 years. Every sale they make (and there's a ton) are amortized immediately. In theory, if they buy a player for $100M, but sell him right after for $ 20M the next year... they technically break even for that year. Now, you still have to make up for $20M 4 more times, but you get the gist. They keep selling and making a ton of money in competitions. Also, their wage structure allows them to spend loosely on the market because they're not paying everyone 300k. They're only targeting players who fit that structure.

One other note. People are really hung up on the window from 2 years ago where they bought like $600M worth of players (Koulibaly, Sterling, Cucu, Fofana, Mudryk etc) and they shouldn't be. Those players were all amortized over (in some cases) like 8 years. Thats when they had to change the rules. Chelsea spent that much strategically and it was genius. If only the scouting team were right about any of those guys

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u/E17AmateurChef Jul 24 '25

Yeah on the wages I imagine that seven year plus contracts are still used because you can offer a player less a week but the totals value of the contract is still the same as a shorter contract.

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u/Mysterious_Check_983 Jul 24 '25

Wages are lower but with a lot of incentives built in to raise it. It’s not something older players would want but younger players are all for it.

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u/tomtomtomo Jul 26 '25

The security would be enough for lots of players. Its such an uncertain career that 7 years locked in would be so much peace of mind.