That was my point his destiny is controlled by Chelsea they would buy him back to just screw us pointless debate
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Transfers Summer 2022 Transfer Thread.
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Surely he has to agree to it though?
You would think so to be honest, the bastard will probably see it as a challenge and lump in 500M this time
It's weird all the players discarded by them seem to have mad love look at Rice.
They made a 150M loss last season. Abramovic pumped in 250M two seasons ago
Their wage bill is double ours
Rules are being introduced re: academy farming and im not sure it’s massively profitable
Make no mistake, he leaves they are smashing the panic button
During Corona? Who didn't make losses?
And they win champions league titles, and have a bigger revenue stream without even considering the fees they generate from sales, so I doubt they're that worried yet. Their net spend the last few windows hasn't been particularly high.
It's been profitable in the past for sure. Going forward if there are legitimate rule changes that make a difference, that may change. But regardless they're a club with 2 champions league and multiple league titles there, so the foundations are there to be a wealthy, successful club regardless.
Well, the foundation is there for any club, if the owner is willing to cover losses like Abramovich does (allegedly at Putin's behest) . Their losses were double ours last season, despite the CL win. Could you run them on the Kroenke/ENIC model and get them to outperform us by the same margins? Almost certainly not.
The club has a debt of 1.5bn owed to RA on it's books..... Makes a complete mockery of any suggestions that they are run sustainably.
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Best bet is a sovereign buyer. An American would have them on our playing budget within two years.
With buyback options I think it's in the contract when you're sold so you have already agreed to coming back if they match the fee.
abramovich had to loan them another 20m last accounts, takes it up to 1.5bn now.
Really?
That doesn't make much sense, basically that sounds like an expensive loan.
For example Reguilon's buy back clause states that he has to agree to the move just like any transfer.
Yeh, they should take into account buybacks if they ever put a limit on loans.
Won't always be mandatory normally is.
Decoding the buy-back clause and how it works in football
First ever buyback clause activated was way back in 1983.
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No other club except the selling club can pay the fee agreed while negotiating and in maximum cases, the player would have to go back to the parent club when they call for him. The player does not have a say in it and is powerless.
Expensive loan? ....How?
Using Reg as an example; as per the buy-back terms we make 10m profit on the OG fee we paid......
Spot on.
Agree re Covid. Still
Their revenue isn’t that much higher than ours. They were the same two years ago so how they funding that wage bill?
They are completely unsustainable at the moment
It was like 100m more yearly last I checked. And they're funding that partly by being clever in the transfer market when it comes to sales, i.e the Hazard transfer, getting nearly 40 for Abraham, 31 for Zouma, another 25 for Tomori etc. Right now they're pretty self sustainable. Whether they can keep that up or not is another question, but they make a LOT more than we do from sales.
(And also being successful. Getting to a CL final nets you a lot of money, as will stuff like winning the club world cup. But I do think we won't see a splurge like 19/20 for a little while post covid, and may see the wage bill gradually reduced. But nothing major IMO.)
I mean I'm gonna go ahead and guess the vast majority of that debt was incurred during the early years of his ownership, when they certainly weren't sustainable. I know
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mentioned he put in another 20m or so last year, but in the grand scheme of things these days they have the revenue stream of an elite club, so even if Abramovich walks it's not like they'd collapse. The academy and squad are all pretty top notch, and any new owner would be pretty wealthy.In recent seasons, they've been ran pretty sustainably. Obviously that all came from the big ol' boost up they got in the first place.
OK fair enough