Chelsea facing ‘more severe’ points deduction than Everton & Nottingham Forest over PSR breaches as financial expert makes damning prediction

Since the Todd Boehly-led ownership team took charge at Stamford Bridge in May 2022, the Blues have splashed out more than £1 billion ($1.3bn) in the transfer market. Premier League teams are only allowed to post losses of up to £105m ($134m) across a three-year period, leaving Chelsea at serious risk of incurring the same kind of penalties as Everton and Forest – who have had six and four points taken off them respectively in the 2023-24 campaign.

Football Finance expert, Stefan Borson, has told talkSPORT of where Chelsea stand at present: “There was an assumption with Mason Mount, because he was announced on Manchester United’s website on July 1 that [his sale] had been put into this current season. So the £55m ($70m) of profit was in this season. It now transpires that Mason Mount appears to have been transacted in 2022-23 and that is how they got through [FFP rules]. We also know from the BlueCo accounts that they are currently, from the post-balance sheet events, that they are something like £48m ($61m) in profit for this year. But of course, this year from an operating perspective, is going to be even worse than last year because they've got no Champions League and no Europe at all.”

He added on what Chelsea need from the next window: “Really, they have to find buyers for Trevoh Chalobah for £20m ($26m), Armando Broja for £40m ($51m), and Conor Gallagher for £50m ($64m). It's those sort of deals that need to be done. And by the way, they all need to be done by June 30. That, as we know, is articulated within the Forest decision. There's a whole conversation about how hard it is to sell players in the period before June. The Premier League actually suggested that more or less that it was impossible.”

With that in mind, and with the Blues struggling to comply with Profit and Sustainability Rules (PSR), Borson went on to say when asked if the west London heavyweights could be stung with harsher punishments than those that have already been handed out: “Yeah. Well, possibly more severe. I think the scale of the losses they're currently forecasting, to me, appear to be vastly in excess of both Everton and Nottingham Forest.”

Manchester City are another big-spending Premier League side waiting to discover their fate, with 115 charges hanging over their head, and many have suggested that the 2023 Champions League winners should be demoted out of the top tier.