Chelsea said they need to sell £100m of local talent by June or default on FFP

Chelsea could breach Financial Fair Play rules unless they raise at least £100m by selling local stars..

He Blues They have spent more than £1 billion with their new owners since the summer of July 2022, where they have broken the British transfer record twice.

But despite selling Kai Havertz to Arsenal for £65 million, bricklayer assembly to Manchester United for an initial 55 million pounds and Matthew Kovacic to Manchester City for up to £30m, remain at risk of being fined.

Mauricio Pochettinoon the side they are already being investigated by the Premier League for FFP violations under Roman Abramovich.

And their recent transfer activity could see them penalized further if they have breached profit and sustainability rules, with the club unable to make a loss of more than £105m over a three-year period.

On Jim White and Alex Crook's Deadline Show, FFP expert and financial advisor Stefan Borson stated that captain James Reece and fellow Cobham graduate Conor Gallagher it may have to be sold.

He said: “We all know that the pure profits made by selling your children have no book value.

“Very good, but clearly selling your captain (James) and almost always present player (Gallagher) to your local rivals (Tottenham) was an unusual situation.

“When we looked at that at the beginning of the window, we thought, 'What's going on there?'

“It's not a big surprise that of all the people who didn't accept £50-80m, that (Spurs chairman) Daniel Levy kind of paused and said, 'I'll wait and see what happens, thank you.'

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“Because you know that within the Premier League, particularly teams like Spurs, they understand Chelsea's situation when it comes to the PSR's Financial Fair Play for this season.

“And they will take advantage of that, and that's what you've seen with (Armando) Broja, they talked about £50m to £60m at the start of the window.

“And he ends up going (to Fulham) for potentially zero – the loan fee could be zero if he plays every game.”

He continued: “In my opinion, there are certainly problems on the horizon and they will surely fail the FFP for the current season.

“Unless – and it seems highly unlikely – by June 30 this year they have sold over £100m worth of players.

“But the window they will be able to do now will be very small, because the season will end and we have the Euro Cup.

“So if you look at someone like Gallagher, he will be at the Euros from June 14, so if they want to send him before June 30, they will have to act very quickly.

“And again, potential buyers will know that Chelsea need to sell players.”

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He continued: “There are a lot of people saying to me: 'You're selling Gallagher for £60m, Broja for £40m, James for £30m', but there are no buyers.

“There is no money in the game at the moment, and the Premier League (clubs) are not stupid, they are not going to accept these crazy prices for players who don't rate that highly, and where they know Chelsea are on a barrel. “