Madrid had Mariano too, so it is not an issue exclusive to us, but certainly seems to happen to us on average alot more often.
What's the link between Saudi and Boehly btw? I read they shared some investments/business interests but to what extent? Perez and even Bartomeu had business interests in ME so it is not something so abnormal for global players. Laporta is even connected to Lim through connecting together in Malaysia around a decade ago.
AFAIK, Chelsea was purchased by clearlake capital. Boehly is part of that and is the club chairman but he doesn't own it entirely same way Roman did. Clearlake is investment fund, with 72B or so of assets they manage. And apparently PIF has stakes in it. Some claim Clearlake manage their assets, others that PIF owns part of it.
EPL clubs were concerned about it, but it was dismissed.
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How many player did we mutually terminate their contracts? There is retirees like Alba obviously, there is youth like Kays, but those are normal practice.
The other 3 is Braithwaite, Pjanic and now Umtiti.
Fail to see whom may have been actually sold for fee. RM simply just had less deadweight than ours.
Braithwaite might have landed us 2-4M if he was on a very low wage I would imagine but he wasn't. Pjanic was bad in Turkish league.
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Regarding Umtiti, in January 2022 he had 18 month left in contract as it was till June 30th 2023 (today) , he signed a renewal till 2026 with announcement from Alemany that we aren't paying him any extra. So essentially his 1.5 year salary was spread on 4.5 years. There was a rumour we had termination clause that we pay him rest of contract and he leaves in summer 2023 (again, today).
1.5 years has passed. 3 years left. That means his 2022/2023 salary of his original contract was due date.
I wonder what is the deal here. I doubt he gets full money tbh as it destroys our salary cap. Put more pressure on the new season instead of spreading it. So the termination clause isn't triggered.
Is Umtiti getting an offer he is willing to forgive money for? Lyon is interested it seems, Gulf countries? Is he taking some money for next year or next 3 years?
