Chelsea hid £47.5m in undisclosed payments including £23m+ to seven unregistered agents/entities to sign Hazard, Luiz, Matic, Ramires, Willian, Eto’o & others.
Senior officials knew, club accounts didn’t show it. Punishment? £10.75m fine & a performative one-year first-team ban.. that is suspended for two years. No points deduction, no genuine sporting sanctions.
In that exact period (2011-2018) they won:
2× Premier League
Champions League
Europa League
2× FA Cup
League Cup
Yearly annual revenue: £261m-£445m
Total prize money: £700m-£800m
£10.75m is a rounding error, it is pathetic. If you’re Everton or Forest - or any smaller club hammered for something far less - how are you feeling right now? Punishments fit the club’s power, not the crime.
Teemu Pukki was moved to tears after playing at Helsinki Olympic Stadium for the final time 🥹
Pukki, 35, retires as Finland's leading scorer; only Jari Litmanen won more caps. He looked like a mere mortal, played like anything but and leaves a legend 🤍
✅ CONFIRMED
In a historic feat, HJK 🇫🇮 have overturned a 4-0 deficit from the 1st leg and qualified to 🟢 UECL Q2!
They shot 60 times towards NSI's 🇫🇴 goal in 120 mins of play.
A Federação Portuguesa de Futebol e todo o Futebol português estão completamente devastados com a morte de Diogo Jota e do seu irmão André Silva, esta madrugada, em Espanha.
Muito mais do que o fantástico jogador, com quase 50 internacionalizações pela Seleção Nacional A, Diogo Jota era uma extraordinária pessoa, respeitado por todos os colegas e adversários, alguém com uma alegria contagiante e referência na própria comunidade.
A Federação Portuguesa de Futebol exprime as mais sentidas condolências à família e aos amigos de Diogo e de André Silva, assim como ao Liverpool FC e FC Penafiel, os clubes onde, respetivamente, alinhavam os jogadores.
A Federação Portuguesa de Futebol já solicitou à UEFA um minuto de silêncio, esta quinta-feira, antes da partida da nossa Seleção com a Espanha, no Europeu feminino.
Perdemos dois campeões. O desaparecimento de Diogo e de André Silva representam perdas irreparáveis para o Futebol Português e tudo faremos para, diariamente, honrar o seu legado.
This was Málaga airport at 5am, around 6 hours after club were promoted to the Segunda. Not sure I've ever seen anything like this. Even after a decade of misery, it is always worth supporting your local club.
Super Kev: a goal machine, a giant of a man, with an even bigger heart. An intensely private and a truly wonderful human being. I’m devastated for his loved ones, and all of us. Love you Super Kev, Skipper 💔🙏🏻
We are devastated to learn that our former striker Kevin Campbell has died after a short illness.
Kevin was adored by everyone at the club. All of us are thinking of his friends and family at this difficult time.
Rest in peace, Kevin ❤️
Xabi Alonso: “I was lucky to have a friend in our neighbourhood who was also crazy about football. His name was Mikel. Every day, we were taking our skateboards down to the beach to play tennis, to surf & of course, to play football.”
“This kid, he was maybe even crazier than me about football. He was a little bit younger than me & my friends - just a few months maybe, but you know how you always push your ‘little friends’ at that age? Well, we tried, but he was a competitive monster.”
“He wanted to win so badly, even if it was just a game on the beach. It was a love for the game that you cannot teach. You are born with it, I think. It bonded us very closely & it still does, to this day.”
“A few months ago, I got a call from my old friend Mikel & as always, we talked football. He said, ‘We’ve got Bayern Munich in the Champions League this week, what do you think?’. And I said, ‘We’ve got West Ham, what do you think?’.”
“If you would have told us back then that we would be managing Arsenal & Leverkusen in 30 years, I think we would have been very happy & very shocked. Of course, we probably would have said, ‘Wait, we made it as players first, right? OK, thank God. Just making sure…’”
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