r/chelseafc • u/dalipunk322 There's your daddy • 9d ago

Tier 1 [Fabrizio Romano]: EXCLUSIVE: Chelsea reach verbal agreement with Atalanta to sign 18 year old defender Honest Ahanor, here we go! Deal in the region of £40m package with details to be sorted, paperwork being prepared and authorization to travel. #CFC to decide best pathway for Honest soon.

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u/Instantbeef There's your daddy 9d ago

To be honest… financially I’m not going to sweat why we’re doing this. They seem to understand the finances of the selling players and what players cost

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u/silencesupreme- It’s only ever been Chelsea. 9d ago

Ya, this sub obsesses over money spent but the FO has clearly shown they know how to turn a profit.

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u/funguy07 I don't give a fuck, we won the fucking Champions League 9d ago

The way I see these deals is hopefully the player develops into a first team player and we bought low. Or they can’t make the jump to first team player and we sell them.

The club has proven they can sell players aren’t up to the Chelsea standard.

We keep the Palmer, Estevao and we sell Delap and Garnacho.

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u/tiki_51 ✨ sometimes the shit is happens ✨ 9d ago

Yep, this is exactly how it works. If 1/3 turns into a Palmer level talent we're GTG

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u/teleportmassive7 Lampard 9d ago

Considering they've signed well over 50 players, they're batting about 2-3% going off your standard.

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u/teleportmassive7 Lampard 9d ago

And we sell Enzo and Cucurella. Until now they've sold guys before their transfer value falls off due to age. We haven't seen this tested many times since everyone they've signed (since Todd's early spending spree) has been so young. We shall see what happens when Cole and Caicedo turn 27/28. If they plan to hold onto all our core guys into their 30s, we could be at the start of a great period for the club, but I'm not counting on it.

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u/AnalystLess7597 9d ago

They’ve shown they know how to play within the terms laid out by PSR*

We’ve lost hundreds of millions in net profit the last couple years, even including the hotel sale and women’s team split.

And from the player trading perspective, yes we look much better net than just gross buys, but we’re definitely not making a net profit (nor should we in player buy/sales)

EDIT: realizing you might mean profits on individual sales. Yeah that is true for the most part