Chelsea’s £18m final score puts them back in UEFA good books and sets them up for future spending | OneFootball

The dust is settling on the summer transfer window, and Chelsea can look back on yet another incredibly busy period in the market.

Just when we thought this team was approaching completion and would only require some tweaks, those in charge went full force again and changed up whole chunks of the squad. Lots of players arrived and lots of players left – but the final figures are in.

Chelsea in the clear after busy summer

A Legia Warsaw banner showing UEFA as greedy pigs.

Chelsea needed to make money in this window as part of their settlement with UEFA from July. As well as a €31m fine for breaches of the rules under the previous ownership, the Blues had to offset all their spending this summer. Only players who had been in the Conference League last season were eligible.

So Noni Madueke, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, Christopher Nkunku, Joao Felix and Nicolas Jackson all did the heavy lifting here as Chelsea ended with a final tally of £314m sales and £296m spending – an £18m profit. Not all of their sales were eligible, but enough of them were to get us compliant.

Champions League return just weeks away

UEFA have already announced that the Blues are in the clear: “the squad list submitted fulfilled the criteria of the settlement agreement and it was therefore already reviewed and approved before publication on UEFA’s website.”

This now means we can now start to operate in a more standard way, just staying compliant with PSR and FFP like everyone else who is in European competition. To manage all that while also strengthening the squad is impressive work from the sporting structure, who should have easier windows to come now.

Our return to the Champions League comes in just a couple of weeks in very exciting fashion, when we go to Munich to face Bayern.