Burnwinter wrote:
Qwiss! wrote:
That's why you loan out young players and then bring them back. The likes of Elneny, Laca, Eddie won't be here next season anyway so that problems gonna happen anyway.
Feel like we should've tried to adopt the Chelsea midlist player-farming model years ago, but we haven't had the business nous or the hard edges for it as a club. Of course it hasn't worked out that well for them with players returning to make an impact, but they get value out of it.
They don't do it to develop players for themselves, other than it being a revenue stream they've created for FFP so as to replace Abramovich's direct funding towards the transfers and wages. This is why they were worried about UEFA/FIFA talk pre-COVID of restricting the number of players a club could have out on loan in any given season.
The funding Abramovich now provides is to cover any pre-tax operating loss so as to keep them in the black re FFP, and because it's not directly spent on transfers or wages it's allowed under current FFP structures as it's seen as the owner/investor absorbing club debt and not passing it on to the club, even if it is done by means of a non-interest bearing loan/s to the parent umbrella company. The Abramovich loan now exceeds 1bn and is probably closer to 2bn post COVID.
