‘Chelsea are DELIBERATELY CHEATING’

Carlo Garganese

16 Aug 2023 20:00 BST
3 min read

Todd Boehly, Chelsea, 2022/23 — © ProShots

Chelsea have been accused of deliberately ignoring financial fair play rules with their astronomical spending in the transfer market.

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The Blues set the world record for money spent on transfers during the 2022-23 season.

And they have continued to splash the cash this summer, breaking the British transfer record to sign Moises Caicedo from Brighton.

Chelsea are now very close to reaching the landmark of having spent over €1 billion on transfers since Todd Boehly took over the club in 2023.

And ex-Man City financial advisor Stefan Borson believes Chelsea are deliberately breaking the Premier League's profit and sustainability guidelines.

What did Borson say?

“You’re talking about a club that's never made a profit in 20 years,” Borson told Talksport.

“They have historically operated at a loss and filled that gap by selling footballers.

“Then what's happened is Todd Boehly's come along and I just want to say very clearly [he] knows exactly what he's doing. Nobody would deny the quality of his team, of the individual. There's no question.

“There’s nothing that any of us can say on the outside that they haven't thought about and that's why I posit that this is all part of a strategy.

“To deliberately ignore the Premier League's profit and sustainability rules in order to accelerate the success of Chelsea.

“That’s partly because we all know in the background that Boehly, for all of his business success and wealth, has overpaid for Chelsea by a very considerable amount.

“It happens. Wealthy people sometimes make mistakes and he's made a mistake in terms of what he paid for the club. He now wants to accelerate the success of the club.”

The success has not yet arrived with Chelsea enduring a disastrous 2022-23 season.

They finished 12th and went through three different managers.

Under new coach Mauricio Pochettino, they began the new season with a 1-1 home draw with Liverpool last Sunday.