Everyone is aware of Chelsea spent silly quantities of cash, however they rake in silly quantities too.
The Blues have been throwing money round prefer it’s going out of favor lately, with over £900million spent on new arrivals since Todd Boehly took over. Questions have naturally been raised over the legality of such a mammoth splurge, however a fast look on the membership’s gross sales data reveals how they’re in a position to get away with it.
Since 2010, Chelsea have obtained £1.26billion in switch charges – greater than another membership on this planet. By distinction, Manchester City, who’re the Premier League’s second-best money-makers, have obtained £784million over the identical interval.
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The solely membership who can rival Chelsea’s file is Benfica, who’ve additionally earned £1.26bn in gross sales since 2010, in response to Transfermarkt. But given Benfica’s historical past as a ‘promoting membership’, keen to dump their greatest and brightest for giant charges, this is not a large shock.
They have not bought every thing proper (*cough* Kevin De Bruyne *cough* Mo Salah), however Chelsea have a behavior of recognising the worth of their undesirable stars, and cashing in on them. Talented, however in the end unneeded, academy graduates like Tammy Abraham, Marc Guehi and Fikayo Tomori had been offered for a mixed £86m whereas £115m for Kai Havertz and Mason Mount seems, as issues stand, like bloody good enterprise.
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The London membership have additionally obtained at the very least £100m in participant gross sales in six of the previous 10 seasons, and at the very least £70m in eight of them. Moreover, the membership’s cumulative participant gross sales within the final 14 years are just some million quid in need of matching the mixed whole of Manchester United, Arsenal, and Newcastle over the identical interval.
Essentially, Chelsea are absolutely the masters of promoting gamers. Though the much less mentioned about their file of shopping for them, the higher.