Missed in the midst of the focus on Chelsea who sells their women's team to a sister company for a neat profit of £ 198.7 million in their financial accounts was the grim decrease in wages.
For the year ending on June 2023 it was £ 352.4 million. Before June 2024 it was £ 294.6 million.
Chelsea has a salary structure that they want to stick to while staying competitive, based on a low base according to Premier League standards with built -in large incentives.
If you perform on your potential, you will get your bumps. If you don't, you will receive the Bottom Line. It is seen as a smart business, the bonus is that it makes it easier to sell assets that does not meet expectations.
Problems are, strikers are expensive. Not only in transfer costs, but in wages they can order it, especially when so much on the elite level of England is currently involved in the same search.
It was already the most expensive position. Now you have Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool and much more compete to find themselves in the center that brings it to the next level.
Hopefully you increase the need for anonymity here, but this week confidentially spoke with the camp of a striker connected to Chelsea and others.
I was told that he will not appear on Stamford Bridge soon, because according to the agent there are others who are immediately willing to go higher in the weekly wage that he would guaranteed to take home.
This includes a club that is currently in the lower half of the Premier League. “Chelsea does not pay salaries,” the source said easily.
This is of course just the situation with a certain player.
This does not mean that Chelsea would refuse to make an exception if they set their sights on the striker they considered perfect for their project. I am sure they would do that if necessary.
But at first it seems that they are hopeful to find the ideal center ahead that not only fits their playing style, but also their paying structure without breaking the bank.
Liam Delap is one of that very much on the Radar of Chelsea, but as previously reported, they are confronted with fierce competition from Manchester United.
Tuchel's texts revealed
The man management skills of Thomas Tuchel near Chelsea saw him get the maximum of players, and can confidentially reveal that the German has taken to let the English players personally know when he personally attends their Premier League game outside courtesy.
It is well received, whereby the former blues -boss not only sends his head up and wishes to three lions, but also for that pure on his radar.
Tuchel has previously compiled a 55-person long list of Englishmen who are worth following before the World Cup 2026.
Tuchel was in Stamford Bridge on Thursday to take Chelsea versus Tottenham. He succeeded that by traveling to Crystal Palace-Brighton on Saturday and Fulham-Liverpool on Sunday.
Predict Maresca's XI and then tell me the lottery numbers
Good luck for everyone who tries to guess the start setup of Chelsea for Legia Warsaw tomorrow. If you happen to sneak it, I also take the lotery numbers for Saturday from you.
The spirit of Enzo Maresca is difficult to read, as the statistics show. This season, Chelsea has an average of 7.2 changes per game in their XIs in all competitions, which underlines how much heels and changes has been done by the Italian head coach in the midst of their involvement of the conference.
The next nearest Premier League club is Ipswich at 4.4.
The tendency of Maresca to rotate his team so regularly and so completely has contributed extensively to the use of more players than any other club this campaign.
They used a total of 38, while two of their top-four rivals in Nottingham Forest and Newcastle used the least in 26.
Average changes to XI to all Comps 2024-25:
7.2 – Chelsea
4.44 – Ipswich
4.43 – Man City
4.34 – Tottenham
3.97 – Southampton
3.9 – Liverpool
3.72 – Fulham
3.62 – Man Utd
3.59 – Arsenal
3.57 – NOTTM Forest
Santos and Strasbourg made a marriage in heaven … So what about Chelsea?
Andrey Santos kills it on loan in Strasbourg, and Chelsea knows that like everyone, since their loan department is diligent in their tracking of who is what and where and where.
They have assigned a technical coach of loans to every loan trader while speaking, analyzing and changing on video clips every week. Ed Brand, for example, followed Lesley Ugochukwu in Southampton and Armando Broja in Everton this season, as well as Trevoh Chalobah when he was in Crystal Palace.
It is difficult to say how Santos will once return with Chelsea, once he will indeed stay this summer. Looking for an answer asked confidentially Oliver Dehnhardt, the former head Explorer at Ajax and now head of the football strategy at AI Football Scouting Platform Eyeball, for his expertise.
In short, can AI tell a club like Data-Savvy if Chelsea or Santos will be a hit?
“Historically, if you perform at that level at that age, in a 'top five competition', at least you only have at football level what is needed to play for a top five team in the Premier League,” he told us.
'Adjustment is still something that all players have to go through and it is very personal – this often takes place from the field and AI and data often struggles to predict this.
“In the case of Santos, I think the question should be less focused on if he can perform at this level and more about how Chelsea can use him best to ensure that he can adjust both on and next to the field in the way they want.”
£ 11k ticket to see how Liverpool wins the title … and then do to Chelsea's Awards
Without wanting to comment on all the permutations, say that there is a chance – a good one – that Liverpool van Arne Slot could win the title on Stamford Bridge on 4 May.
Chelsea has arranged their awards evening for the same night in the London Grosvenor House in Park Lane (Moises Caicedo also gets my voice for player of the season).
If you buy a ticket for the Dugout club in Stamford Bridge for the competition of that day – £ 7,995 for the road section, £ 10,995 for the house – Chelsea also throws in a free ticket for them.
You do wonder if Liverpool fans are going to pick up available VIP chairs if and when it looks more likely that they can conquer the title at the bridge. I'm not sure if they are attending the award ceremony, spirit. They may be too busy with four.
Maresca's training wheels
Confidential was on Chelsea's Sun-Kissed Training Ground last week when a cyclist stopped next to us and said cheerfully, “Morning!”
It turned out that the guy was under the helmet Enzo Maresca.
Good for him. He does not cycle every day, but occasionally opts for the healthy and environmentally friendly option, since he lives close enough to Cobham that he can.
13 still under the 18s happy song
Chelsea set the record for the biggest victory ever to be included in the Premier League Under 18S when they won 13-0 in February 2017 versus Brighton. Conor Gallagher got the first goal in that victory.
That record appeared in danger when the less than 18 years of Manchester United were 9-0 versus Leeds on Saturday to the break.
United did indeed have 13, but the road side managed to get on the board to lose only 13-1. This made the record of Chelsea safe. Phew.
Olise's agent is no longer banned from football
Chelsea fans will remember how their club was talking last summer to sign Michael Olise, just to lose the wing player of Crystal Palace to Bayern Munich.
Olise's agent Glen Tweneboah then had to serve a suspension from football after violating the FA rules in an earlier agreement, effectively from 5 October 2024.
Confidential can report that from this week Tweneboah will no longer be limited by a ban, in which his sentence on Friday ended.
Since no one in the Bundesliga offered more assists this season than Olise, you would forgive Chelsea because they wish their former Academy product had come home last summer.
Mudryk's agent speaks
Journalists received an e -mail last week in which quotes from Vadim Shablii, the agent of Mykhailo Mudryk, were pushed on us in case we wanted to publish a story that they use.
He spoke Vladyslav Krapyvtsov and Giorgi Sudakov and Vitalii Mykolenko and more Ukrainian stars, but not Mudryk, given 'the sensitivity of his current situation', as it was written in the flash score piece.
Mudryk remains suspended from football after the failure of a drug test and has not been released since she is standing opposite Heidenheim in the Conference League on 28 November.
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