Mykhailo Mudryk was hardly a success story from Chelsea, even before he was suspended because he had an anti-doping test.
But the current unavailability of the Ukraine wing player is actually a disguised blessing for the blues.
Because the absence of Mudryk will play a major role in the club that can probably register all five of his most important summer signing sessions (so far) for the Champions League – Joao Pedro, Jamie Gittens, Jorrel Hato, Liam Delap and Estevao Willian.
Chelsea is certainly considered to be confidence.
Understand why a dip in the UEFA rulebook requires, some assumptions about transfer costs and wages, and a little math.
When UEFA Chelsea did an initial £ 27 million in July for the violation of financial rules in previous seasons, they also imposed restrictions on their summer recruitment.
The total annual costs of the “A” list of a maximum of 25 players who submit the blues for the Champions League next Tuesday, must be lower than the same figure for the 25 players who were on the “A” list for the knockout phases of last season's conference.
Mudryk, although his suspension started last December, was at that conference competition list.
The Ukrainian is still considered to pay £ 97,000 a week that he agreed when he arrived at Stamford Bridge in January 2023 for a first fee of £ 56 million.
But that means that Chelsea, by abandoning Mudryk from the UEFA list of this season, clears a large piece of budget.
The annual costs of a player are his wage plus the depreciation of his contract – the amount that reduces his transfer value every year for accounting purposes.
In round figures, the annual costs of Mudryk for UEFA purposes were around £ 17 million. Due to the calculations of Sunsport, that is more than the combined annual costs for adding Estevao and Hato to the team.
The £ 52 million sale of Noni Madueke to Arsenal is also the key to the makeover of Chelsea.
When calculating the savings by selling a player, UEFA Clubs allows one third of the transfer gain to add to wages and amortization costs that are now out of the books.
Madueke arrived in the club in the same month as Mudryk for £ 35 million.
By the time the wing player joined the Gunners, Amortization had brought his value on the books of Chelsea to less than £ 20 million, so that the blues made a profit of more than £ 30 million.
Divide it by three and add it to the annual depreciation costs and wage of Madueke, and you get around £ 20 million – which is probably more than the annual costs of Pedro.
You get the photo and can now store the calculators. The long and the short of it are these: the annual costs of the five major signing sessions so far are around £ 60 million.
And that is almost the same as the savings made by omitting Mudryk, selling Madueke, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall and Mathis Amougou, losing the on-Loan Jadon Sanchos £ 7.5 million wages, lending Marc Guiu and publishing backup goalkeeper Lucas Bergstrom.
UEFA rules enable clubs to put fewer than 25 players on their A -list and to make savings in this way, and it would be little surprising if Chelsea had 22 players or less.
The parties that compete in Europe can supplement the senior squadron by mentioning as many young players as they want in their B list, provided that they meet certain criteria.
Romeo Lavia would be eligible, as well as star stars Josh Acheampong, Tyrique George and others.
If Chelsea can find solutions for Christopher Nunku and Nicolas Jackson, they will release more than £ 30 million to Champions League team – probably enough to cover the costs of Xavi Simons and Alejandro Garnacho.
The only question mark is about Wesley Fofana. The French defender, just like Lavia, was not in the Conference League team due to an injury.
But the large transfer costs of Fofana (an initial £ 70 million) and wages (£ 200,000 per week) mean that his annual costs in UEFA conditions are nearly £ 25 million.
So he could notice that he had to see the newcomers playing in the Champions League.
Carn and collected
Carney Chukwuemeka had one plan when he returned to Chelsea Pre -season training this summer – go back to Germany.
After weeks of difficult conversations between the blues and Borussia Dortmund, the midfielder returns to Bundesliga on a permanent deal.
Dortmund started the summer and wanted another loan agreement with Chelsea, which was on a sale.
There were points where it seemed as if an agreement would not be reached and other clubs came to the table.
Juventus, Napoli, RB Leipzig and West Ham have all set a push to sign the former Aston Villa -man.
But the insistence of Chukwuemeka on Dortmund was the key to do the deal.
Chelsea started the summer and wanted almost £ 40 million for the midfielder, signed from Villa for £ 20 million in 2022.
It was an unrealistic target, but they have obtained a large clause of 30 percent on top of £ 24 million total package to mitigate the blow.
In good Nic
Nicolas Jackson's Chelsea departure seems to go to the thread.
Enzo Maresca has told the Senegal striker that he can leave the club after the arrivals of Delap and Pedro.
As exclusively revealed by Sunsport, Bayern Munich has reached an oral agreement about a movement in the midst of rival interest of Newcastle, Aston Villa and AC Milan.
The asking price of Chelsea started with £ 80 million, but Chelsea is abandoning for a fee closer to £ 60 million to sell Jackson downright.
However, the club is open to let him go on loan to get his wages from the books, especially because they follow a deal for Alejandro Garnacho from Manchester United or RB Leipzig's Xavi Simons.
Sunsport can reveal that the Jackson entourage is currently in London to complete the deal, with the transfer window that will be closed next week.
Jackson has trained with the first team of Cobham, but still has to be called in a MatchDay team this season.
Slightly cold
Ben Chilwell embraces the many parties of the life of a Premier League footballer while waiting to find out if he will be one on September 1.
The former international in England posted a photo on his Instagram of himself who wore a Gucci shirt in football style next to someone named Cozane.
According to the children, the latter is an influencer/model/whatever that friends is with rapper Jack Harlow, a fan of Chelsea (apparently).
But there is more to Chilwell than friends of celebrities. He also spent time on the smile of Shay, the charity from which he is the patron.
Chilwell went to the same schools and played for the same Grassroots Club in Bedfordshire as Shayan Patel.
Shay was a fan of Chelsea who died in 2020 at the age of only 13 less than two years after the diagnosis of a glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) brain tumor.
The organization that bears its name helps families with children with a GBM to gain access to treatment and support, while also increasing the general awareness of the disorder and funds for research.
In particular, Shay's Smiles aims to cover the £ 143,657 of a PhD student that works within the team of the Brain Tumor Research Center of Excellence at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL).
Chilwell visited the hospital with charity representatives last week, including Mama Niki.
He is a good example of the positive ways in which footballers can and do their privileged position to make a difference.
Eden for the top
Apart from Cole Palmer, no player has generated as much excitement on Stamford Bridge since Eden Hazard as Estevao.
Every time he touches the ball, the Brazilian pulls an upcoming sigh of the crowd, and he did the same at the London Stadium in Chelsea's 5-1 demolition of West Ham last Friday evening.
He is the kind of player who makes fans enthusiastic, with a sweet personality and a ceiling as high as the large Belgian winger of the blues.
Fans were quick to compare the full debut of the couple. When Hazard bowed on Wigan in 2012, he took an assist and the Man of the Match Award.
Quick Vooruit 13 years and Estevao did the same in the London Stadium.
It cannot be denied that the Brazilian still has a long way to build an inheritance that will see him praised as one of the best to do it ever for the blues, but he certainly has the potential.
Hard sels
RC Strasbourg has a history of promoting the career of Belgian keepers.
Matz Sels came to the club and stayed until February 2024 when he moved to Nottingham Forest.
Now the sister club of Chelsea has gained young Mike Penders in goal.
Genters will dream of following the same path as the Forest keeper, which was mentioned in the PFA Team of the Year before 2024/5 ..
The proposed relocation of Julio Enciso from Brighton to Strasbourg prior to a switch to Chelsea a year later has again increased controversy about Blueco, who own both Chelsea and the French side, and about multi-club ownership in general.
Sels told Sunsport: “I was there when they (Blueco) came, and I think they will eventually try to do good things.
“Strasbourg also ended in European places last year. There is always a small part that does not like the multi-club ownership systems, but as I said last year, it worked well, so we have to see how things are going in the future.”
But Penders' development is on hold after he sustained an injury in the first stage of Strasbourg in the qualifying match of the conference against Brondby.
Penders went before the break, missed the competition gain on Nantes and is ready to at least be the Brondby -Terugkeer on Thursday and the Ligue 1 trip from Sunday to Monaco.