Premier League side Chelsea are preparing to make AC Milan a bid for Portuguese forward Rafael Leao in the summer, a report claims.
As has been reported by Corriere della Sera (via SempreMilan.it), the Blues would love to add Leao to their squad despite having lots of players already who play in a similar rule and only joined the club recently.
Under Todd Boehly, Chelsea have been spending huge amounts of money which means Milan would certainly be able to demand a big fee, but there is a limit to what they can charge for a player who will soon have just a year on his contract.
Chelsea are said to be willing to pay €80 million for Leao this summer which is probably the most that the Rossoneri could ask for unless they get the player to sign a new contract.
The club are much more focused on a renewal than a sale.
1. No champion’s league
2. Best is to ask who Todd Boehly doesn’t want to buy
3. (and this one is from my friend, a Chelsea fan) How about they look for a proper manager and build a system before spending another country’s GDP on new players?
I like how chealsea can offload 150-200M€ each transfer season and ffp is nowhere in sight while clubs like Milan will spend 5€ over and instant punishing.. And i know premier clubs have more money but not that much more imao
UEFA corruption. Plain and simple. Same sh!t for Barcelona that doesn’t have a pot to p!ss in but still manages pay large transfer fees and sign players to large contracts. Same for PSG that doesn’t seem to have heard of FFP.
Yup, UEFA is just an instrument to ensure the rich stay rich…
In an example – “by signing Mykhailo Mudryk on an eight-and-a-half-year contract, the way it is dealt with for accounting and FFP purposes is you take that £88m cost and you divide that over eight-and-a-half-years, and it works out as just over £10m-a-year.”
They’ve exploited the hole in FFP. They sign 8 year contract with a player and spread that amount for the time of contract. But it seems UEFA are on them anyway.
They didnt exploit anything, other clubs arent dumb enough to give out 8-9 year deals for everyone. The thing you described is called amortisation and everyone knew about it.
Imagine giving De Ketelare a 8 year deal, would that look smart to you right now? How can you be confident every single of their signing will be good for 8 years?
Ted is actually correct as there were opened cases against both chelsea and man city for both their spending sprees and their long contracts, These club potentially could find them in a heap of trouble.
Whether uefa has the balls to follow through might be a different matter but i hope they wont show any clemency towards them.
I know what amortisation is, I work in certain business but I kept it simple for people here to understand how Chelsea were able to splash. Chill.
Ummm yea Premier Clubs do have THAT MUCH MORE money than Serie A clubs. Our revenues are around what Leeds, Leicester and Everton have…the very ones fighting to avoid relegation at the bottom of the Prem Table. So….yes, they have waaaaay more money than us. Regular prem club like West Ham can spend more than us and they do. We’re living off of our name tbh
no they dont. show me the numbers. They dont have such incomes to be able to spend 150-200M€ each season. They just foking dont. no one does. And those are just transfers not mentioning the salaries..
Lester Westham and Leeds all had revenues within 15 million of ours in 2022. So yeah, PL teams in relegation positions get tv abd prize money that is superior to our 7 to 9 th plave
and im saying there is a gap between how much they earn and how much they spend. Is that so hard to understand? A monkey could see that something isnt right there
Chealse will blow, this season, 543M€ on transfers and have around 210M€ in salaries yet they earn around 450M€ a season.. Can you see the discrepancy?
80 mil for Leao will be a steal for them.
Chelsea doesn’t deserve him. Can’t believe there is nothing Italian Association can do about broadcasting rights royalties. They have to think about something
Unfortunately Serie A in general has no big market appeal outside Italy. In the US here everything is EPL as many other countries. La Liga also gets the Spanish speaking markets in South America. Literally language is the biggest factor.
I grew up in Italian neighborhoods and that’s where I learned Serie A. But with the language barrier in North America, EPL gets the lions share of money. Non English speaking countries English is the dominant second language.
I hope Leao is renewed, but 80m for a player in the final year of his contract would be second only to the 100m Juventus paid Madrid for Ronaldo (he was on his final year yes?). So if it comes down to that I hope the club take it (again, not because I want them to sell Leao, but because of the circumstances), as that money would give is a very good chance at not only replacing him, but possible also greatly improving at least one other position. The worst outcome here is losing him on a free in 2024.
Hazard was sold for 140m and he had one year left so no its not second
Haaland only went for 60 mil with one year left
That’s because his contract had a buyout clause which came into effect in the last year.