One imagines the accounting trick of amortisation will be doing the heavy lifting there. Yes, £30m for the Brazilian kid but over a five year contract their annual outlay now will be 'only' £6m. Similarly Poch is probably on gardening leave right now (it's what happened when we sacked him, anyway) so the financial hit would currently only be his wages.
Or they're simply mad.
I'm pleading the fifth on this one: but is it possible that Chelsea are in a position where the deadline means they need to be in the black or else it just doesn't matter at all and they try to take the punishment on the chin?
What I'm trying to say is - could there be a point where they need £50m, so unless they got offered that for Gallagher then there would be no point accepting, say, £40m?