SutekhWestYorksRoyalFrom Despair To Where? My original post was more about the reaction of Everton fans and how I'd heard the same arguments about us for about 5 years. I think they've got their heads in the sand.
They need to trim their wage bill and I think they will struggle to recruit adequate quality next season because they will be labelled a crisis club.
I'll also be amazed if they get through next season without a points deduction and if they get relegated next season, I can see them being in the Championship for a decade.
The stadium may be state of the art but they can't afford to pay for it. They've already put the opening back a year. Realistically, they need £500m worth of investment and I don't see where it's coming from.
I'd agree with this. Putting aside infrastructure and simply keeping up with wages, handing out long-term contract to older players is a killer financially. I do wonder if we may have been in a better state financially this season had we avoided relegation and had Championship revenue without earners like Moore, Puscas etc., But we'd have struggled to recruit still and may well have gone down this season. And it took years of harsh restraints to get us to a manageable wage bill, with the likes of Aluko and Baldock needing to see out their contracts. Every year you hoped we were over the worst but there were still too many contracts left to run off. Though in hindsight, at least we stayed up as long as we did. Imagine we'd been relegated with our obscene wage bill in 2019.
If Everton are at that point now, are Chelsea planting the seeds? In the next year or so they'll decide they need to strengthen again and not have any room to.
Chelsea will have to look to sell Palmer, Gallagher and/or Colwill as no-one will want to pay the stupid money they need for the numerous players they won't mind losing.
Gallagher and Colwill are likely. Good players who can command up to £50m each and as they are academy players it would be recognised as pure profit for FFP.
Things have to get completely desperate for them to sell Palmer. The star of the team, 4 years left on his contract and basically the only good thing about Chelsea this season. When you look at the prices Maguire and Grealish went for, you could easily get £100m+ but it would be a disaster footballing wise.