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Haha fair

The second table is the one I was interested in, the first for me is just a bit of context/flavour
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Sorry mate, I was so offended by the Athletic's cosmetic mishap that I am now steadfastly against this idea forever. I now unflinchingly believe that there is no correlation whatsoever between wage budget and league position.

 
I am playing to go on a big rant about how badly Chelsea has been managed later, but for now, here is a (probably incomplete) list of former Chelsea academy players:

GK: Marcin Bulka (Nice)

RB: Reece James, Ola Aina (Forest), Tino Livramento (Newcastle)

RCB: Andreas Christensen (Barcelona), Fikayo Tomori (Milan), Trevoh Chalobah

LCB: Levi Colwill, Marc Guehi (Palace)

LB: Nathan Ake (ManCity), Lewis Hall (Newcastle)

CMs (defensive and box-to-box): Declan Rice (Arsenal) Connor Gallagher (Atletico), Billy Gilmour (Napoli), Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Milan)

CAMs and Wingers: Jamal Musiala (Bayern), Callum Hudson-Odoi (Forest), Mason Mount (ManUtd), Jeremie Boga (Nice), Tyrique George

Strikers: Dominic Solanke (Tottenham), Tammy Abraham (Milan)

That's a whole squad most of which are good enough to be playing for Chelsea or as solid squad depth and would have cost ZERO in transfer fees. Meanwhile we spend a billion pounds in transfer fees just in the last 4 years to produce a squad not much better than what's listed above.

Imagine if we'd just held onto this squad and used some of that billion pounds to add just a few select absolutely world class players rather splashing it around on a whole literny of players (some of which are great like Caceido and Palmer but just as many poor like Disasi, Badiashile, Dewsbury-Hall, Datro Fofana, Ugochukwu, Washington, Kellyman, etc, etc).

It's actually quite embarrasing when you think about it just how much of a leg up this youth system is vs most of our rivals yet how we've squandered it away.

 
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Just to be clear, I am NOT suggesting that the above squad is as good Chelsea's current team.

What I am saying is that is a very very very solid base to add to to produce a world-class team.

We could have easily afforded to add Caicedo, Palmer, Kavatskelia (sp?), Bellingham (Jude) and Osiehmen (sp?) to that team and still had plenty of money left over. That would probably be the best squad in the world.

 
How are you (as the Chelsea directors) going to demand a decent sale price on Nkunku, Felix, Disasi, Stirling, Chilwell, Broja or Datro Fofana when the club have already signed their replacements and know you will accept any price to get them off the wage bill?

 
Prize money for finishing 1st/winning the competition (according to Grok):

English Premier League: 62.3 million pounds or 1.64 million pounds per game

Uefa Champions League: 77.2 million pounds or 5.15 million pounds per game

Fifa Club World Cup: 123 million pounds or 17.57 million pounds per game


*They are different competitions. Champions League and Premier League for example you would get to keep gate takings on home matches whereas Fifa CWC is all neutral venues meaning prize money would make up a much larger proportion of overall takings (if not most of them). So it's not perfectly comparable, but it is interesting.

 
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I wrote before (here: https://www.theshedend.com/topic/37137-bomb-squad-2025-edition/page/2/#comment-2119408) about Chelsea's bomb squad and later went into the estimated wages being paid (from AI/Grok)

Well i'm in a good mood today (since we f*ck*ng world champions biatch) and thought i'd post potential sale prices (again according to Grok)

Djordje Petrovic: €20.00m

Renato Veiga: €25.00m

Axel Disasi: €22.00m

Benoît Badiashile: €22.00m

Ben Chilwell: €15.00m

Caleb Wiley: €8.00m

Alfie Gilchrist: €8.00m

Lesley Ugochukwu: €18.00m

Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall: €20.00m

Christopher Nkunku: €35.00m

Raheem Sterling: €10.00m

João Félix: €20.00m

Armando Broja: €12.00m

David Datro Fofana: €6.00m

For those too lazy to use a calculator (like me!), that's €243.00* million and does NOT include Madueke or Kepa (which would push it up to nearly €300 million)

How many of these players do you think will leave and how realistic do you see these fees?

Edit: €241 million, f*cking grok can't do math. 🤣

 
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I wrote before (here: https://www.theshedend.com/topic/37137-bomb-squad-2025-edition/page/2/#comment-2119408) about Chelsea's bomb squad and later went into the estimated wages being paid (from AI/Grok)

Well i'm in a good mood today (since we f*ck*ng world champions biatch) and thought i'd post potential sale prices (again according to Grok)

Djordje Petrovic: €20.00m

Renato Veiga: €25.00m

Axel Disasi: €22.00m

Benoît Badiashile: €22.00m

Ben Chilwell: €15.00m

Caleb Wiley: €8.00m

Alfie Gilchrist: €8.00m

Lesley Ugochukwu: €18.00m

Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall: €20.00m

Christopher Nkunku: €35.00m

Raheem Sterling: €10.00m

João Félix: €20.00m

Armando Broja: €12.00m

David Datro Fofana: €6.00m

For those too lazy to use a calculator (like me!), that's €243.00* million and does NOT include Madueke or Kepa (which would push it up to nearly €300 million)

How many of these players do you think will leave and how realistic do you see these fees?

Edit: €241 million, f*cking grok can't do math. 🤣
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Those figures look realistic to me.

The SDs will have done very well if thy can get more than that, and indeed if they can even shift half of those players.

 
I have nothing Chelsea related to complain about.

Well this is awkward.....

 
I wrote before (here: https://www.theshedend.com/topic/37137-bomb-squad-2025-edition/page/2/#comment-2119408) about Chelsea's bomb squad and later went into the estimated wages being paid (from AI/Grok)

Well i'm in a good mood today (since we f*ck*ng world champions biatch) and thought i'd post potential sale prices (again according to Grok)

Djordje Petrovic: €20.00m

Renato Veiga: €25.00m

Axel Disasi: €22.00m

Benoît Badiashile: €22.00m

Ben Chilwell: €15.00m

Caleb Wiley: €8.00m

Alfie Gilchrist: €8.00m

Lesley Ugochukwu: €18.00m

Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall: €20.00m

Christopher Nkunku: €35.00m

Raheem Sterling: €10.00m

João Félix: €20.00m

Armando Broja: €12.00m

David Datro Fofana: €6.00m

For those too lazy to use a calculator (like me!), that's €243.00* million and does NOT include Madueke or Kepa (which would push it up to nearly €300 million)

How many of these players do you think will leave and how realistic do you see these fees?

Edit: €241 million, f*cking grok can't do math. 🤣
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I would say 5 out of 14. At the pace they are going though; they will be lucky to shift out 4. Presently only Petrovic has been sold 4 weeks into the window. Window closes in 6 weeks.

 
We don't need no Zappacosta

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davide_Zappacosta#/media/File:Davide_Zappacosta_2019.jpg

Davide Zappacosta, remember him?, apparently he still plays (for Atalanta now https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davide_Zappacosta).

We signed him for around 28 million euros (so says wikipedia at least) and he barely played for us (26 appearances over several years mostly in the cups, again quoting wikipedia).

So why bring him up? To me he's a warning what happens when you spend a significant sum of money on mid-twenties back up option.

They come on a high fee because they are playing well at the previous club to "earn" the move and then proceed to not play regularly for us meaning their value goes down (buy high, sell low). They are already established and have limited upside. And they deny a spot to a youngster who could do with those back up and cup minutes.

It's not that just him, Chelsea's history is littered with a bunch of these players (Djilobodji, Begovich, Danny Drinkwater, and maybe Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall?). Could be soon to be Marc Guéhi,

I like Marc Guéhi, I think he's a good premier league footballer, and if the price really is right, then fine. But he does tick alot of these "Zappacosta" boxes. He wouldn't be first choice in Chelsea's best 11 with a fit Fofana and Colwill. He'd be coming into a squad with lots of centre backs already here (some like Acheampong) look promising and he definitely not old (24) but he's not likely to get significantly better at Chelsea if he's not first choice.

I hope with the huge amount of talented kids (both purchased and youth system) we have here now, we are past the days of buying expensive back ups. Hell, the fact we let Guéhi go in the first place without having played him at all is an indication that we aren't giving the youngsters at the club enough of a chance as is.
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Totally agree we like buying players cause it's like a new toy. Let's give our young academy players more opportunities when possible. They just as talented as all these expensive players we spending so much money on.

 
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