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Quote from: Coyster on February 06, 2023, 11:59:17 PM

Quote from: Rabi3 on February 06, 2023, 11:29:37 PM

I agree, I don't think that Chelsea would target Osimhen when they already have Nkunku, even Osimhen wouldn't want to be played from game to game and get replaced in the middle of the match all the time, he might want to join a club where he is the main striker and play most 90 minutes.

Victor Osimhen should cost around 100 million pounds in the summer, that is definitely not an amount Chelsea can spend in this forthcoming summer transfer window, not that they can't afford it, but because of the amount of money they've already spent in the last two transfer windows. As a result of that they might have to take things pretty slow in the summer, except they are going to sell some players for good money, thus they can they balance their books. I'm pretty sure they would be looking at the charges leveled against City today, and they'll want to make sure that it doesn't get to them in the future.

Chelsea should also take into consideration that Manchester City is now once more under investigation because of violation of financial fair play rules or whatever those rules are called in the premier league. However, shouldn't there be some limit anyway? If you realize that 300 million didn't take you anyway and you go and put in another 200 million and it doesn't work, which we might find out soon, the problems are probably more of a structural thing. Something just doesn't work out.

Given that Osimhen just turned 24 and imagine he also wins trophies on top of being the Serie A top scorer, I am sure he is going to cost any club more than 100 million pounds. His contract runs until 2025, which gives Napoli a nice edge for upcoming negotiations.

Chelsea was not doing the same thing. I think that you shall read what has become the main concern why city may get sanctioned. City didn't give a honest report about its financial club. That being said some manipulations happened in the financial of club.
That's the main reason why city was being investigated. Chelsea was exploring loopholes. UEFA will fix it soon but there's no ETA about when UEFA will take a decision regarding loopholes that being used by chelsea.

I'll give you interesting article that is worthy enough to spend a few minutes to read and understand more about what loopholes being explored by chelsea.

Explainer: The FFP loopholes behind Chelseas record signings

There will be also a new rules that will come from UEFA caused by what happened with chelsea's massive transfers.

Quote from: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-11714053/Chelseas-spending-spree-fall-foul-Financial-Fair-Play-rules-soon-season.html

The new UEFA FFP rules dictate that, from next season, the amount a club spends on net player acquisitions (spending minus income), plus wages, plus agents fees, must not exceed 90 per cent of any clubs income.