Chelsea will likely need to sell a whole host of players this summer if they are to sign Brighton midfielder Moises Caicedo. This comes as the Blues reported substantial losses for the second season in a row, leading to concerns over whether the club could breach the Premier League's financial fair play regulations this time next year.
The west London outfit were heavily linked with Caicedo in January, along with Arsenal who saw two bids for the 21-year-old rejected. Chelsea themselves bid £55million for the Ecuador international, and would likely have used the accounting practice of amortisation, aka spreading the cost of transfer fees over long contracts, as they have done with big-money deals for Enzo Fernandez and Mykhailo Mudryk over the past year.
Their efforts to revive any potential deal may well have suffered a setback due to this latest revelation. Football finance expert Kieran Maguire has warned that Chelsea could be in trouble with FFP if Graham Potter's side fail to qualify for the Champions League next season, as is looking increasingly likely.
