JAKARTA - Chelsea are shopping crazy at the 2022/2023 season-half transfer market. Hundreds of millions of pounds were spent by the club led by Todd Boehly to bring in new players.
That's not the only thing that matters. In several transfers of new players, Chelsea gave long-term contracts.
The Blues' move was allegedly to circumvent the Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules belonging to the European Football Association (UEFA).
The long contract was reported as the Premier League club's way of suppressing club spending. One example is Murdryk's transfer which reached 89 million pounds (Rp1.6 trillion).
He is contracted for eight and a half years at Stamford Bridge. That means Chelsea's annual expenditure for the player is only 11 million (around Rp202 billion).
This makes UEFA plan to change the rules regarding player contracts. The European football parent will apply a new rule regarding the maximum duration of the new player's contract, which is no more than five years.
This regulation will be enforced from the 2023/2024 season.
Chelsea itself has been crazy since Boehly was held. The businessman from the United States is so busy buying players.
Last summer, the Blues brought in eight players. Meanwhile, in the January transfer market, Chelsea has brought in Mykhaylo Mudryk, Benoit Badiamile, Noni Madueke, Andrey Santos, Datro Fofana and Joao Felix.
The English, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, and French versions are automatically generated by the AI. So there may still be inaccuracies in translating, please always see Indonesian as our main language. (system supported by DigitalSiber.id)
