Chelsea agree £58m deal with Southampton for Belgian midfielder
Blues close on £17m Brazilian Deivid Washington
Will bring their spending to about 400m pounds with income of around 254m, so a NET spend of roughly 150m on paper which doesn't look bad.
The fuckers are basically gaming the British FFP system, and when your as rich and dirty as Boh-ly then that is the name of the game.
Sign the players on long term contracts and amortize their transfer fee+wages over 8 year spreads, while when you sell the players you register their transfer income at 100%, even if you are being paid in installments
Tebas would never let it float, but EPL FFP is there only by name. And there UEFA FFP rule change to 5 year contracts has largely been ignored by them, with an UBER like approach of
"it is easier to beg for forgiveness than ask for permission".