Chelsea have decided against signing Jadon Sancho on a permanent basis and will pay a £5m penalty to send the winger back to Manchester United when his loan ends on 30 June.
Chelsea, who are set to announce the £30m signing of Liam Delap from Ipswich after finalising personal terms with the striker, loaned Sancho last summer with an obligation to buy for £25m.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6390124/2025/06/03/jadon-sancho-chelsea-transfer-clause/
Absolute nightmare, only this club would fack up an obligation to buy clause wouldn’t they? £5m was absolutely pittance. But it showed how desperate we were to get rid.
Sancho’s coming back
posted 4 days, 14 hours ago
Russian
There is no way Barca are paying for Rashford, they're broke and if they did manage to buy him they then have the hurdle of registering him, all that hassle for a squad player makes zero sense. If Rashford really wants a move to Barca (which I still don't think makes much sense) then it will only be as a loan. And if that loan happens then it isn't going to help Rashford much with getting into the Engand squad sitting on the bench most of the time.
posted 4 days, 13 hours ago
Not sure they’d have a problem registering him.
posted 4 days, 13 hours ago
comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 1 hour, 31 minutes ago
comment by Redastomatoes- Feels very Moyesian...cleverson forever!If he is good enough he is ready! (U12026)
Are we going to sacrifice heavily on a transfer fee? It seems the only way to make it work. 10-20 million for Sancho, 20-30 million for Rashford?
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There will be a cut-off point where the transfer fee is so low that there's no benefit to selling.
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Hmm but there is always a benefit to selling, unless it's a league financial requirement issue. Keeping a player who we do not want to pay at the highest wages possible Is no benefit. Something something sunk costs ...
posted 4 days, 13 hours ago
Barca arent actually broke btw they just cant meet La Liga rules. If there were no rules they would probably be fine
posted 4 days, 13 hours ago
I’m not sure how hard it will be for them to meet those rules this season given it’s historic stupid spending that was hamstringing them, and they just signed a mega kit deal with Nike.
posted 4 days, 13 hours ago
I thought Barca were in trouble of failing FFP again and their recent sales of VIP seats were under scrutiny meaning that they will again have issues registering players this summer? Are they moving on any players in high wages this summer?
posted 4 days, 13 hours ago
La Liga base it on projected budgets and Barca will be back at the Nou Camp and have increased revenues with that and their Nike deal, plus reduced amortisations and I think they’ve brought their wage bill down in recent years.
They’ll be able to spend the money to sign Rashford, whether they do is a different matter.
posted 4 days, 12 hours ago
I thought there are delays on the return to the Camp Nou and more likely to be in 2026? Maybe they should play at the Sagrada Família when that’s ready.
posted 4 days, 11 hours ago
I thought they were going back in September?
posted 4 days, 10 hours ago
comment by Blarmy (U14547)
posted 2 hours, 52 minutes ago
Barca arent actually broke btw they just cant meet La Liga rules. If there were no rules they would probably be fine
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If there were no rules I'd be rich because I'd rob the nearest bank, and then the next bank, and then rob people's homes of all their jewellery, then jump into people's cars as they walk away to pay for fuel, then rob some more banks, then mug some people, people who are flashing big expensive watches around, e.g Rolex, and the likes.
Id then hack into the finance system at my company and give all of the companies salary to myself, making myself even richer than I am already am.
Id be facking minted if there were no rules.