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Chelsea FC face new questions over how Roman Abramovich funded success | Roman Abramovich
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We don't know how much City spent. They're accused of lying about it.
tbh the rules aren't really about fairness. FFP isn't the real name anyway. It's about stopping the problem of sugar daddies getting bored and leaving the taxpayer to pick up the pieces.
I thought we kind of know what's going out (as in wages, transfers etc) through their books and what other teams report. It's the dodgy money coming in that's the main issue.
Though imagine that 115 charges, there some on both sides!
Either way, even if you want to just make up whatever numbers you feel are right (let's say Haaland cost 120m for example) I still feel like they'd be short of the mad advantage Chelsea 2005 had. You couldn't massage the transfer fees to make them double what Man U, Chelsea or whoever spend. Plus it looks like Chelsea were lying all the time anyway.