Eden Hazard’s move to Chelsea is being scrunitised after the Blues were found to have made almost £50m of illegal payments in a 7 year period.
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Chelsea were today given a record fine, a suspended transfer ban for the first team and an active transfer ban for the academy as punishment for breaches of Premier League rules under the Roman Abramovich regime.
The BBC’s piece on it reports that a total of £47.5m was paid to “unregistered agents and third parties” between 2011 and 2018. Of that, 50% was on just one deal.
Hazard deal likely the biggest of rule breaking group
“The money was paid to seven unregistered agents (or entities associated with them) to sign players including Eden Hazard (Lille), Ramires (Benfica), David Luiz (Benfica), Andre Schurrle (Bayer Leverkusen) and Nemanja Matic (Benfica),” they write.
Hazard was the biggest deal of all of those, and perhaps also the most surprisingly cheap – so we can assume that the £23m was related to him. There has long been rumours about dodgy stuff in that deal, but there’s no way of knowing for sure.
There’s also curiously a £3.8m payment for a transfer which involves a player whose named is redacted from the findings. We don’t know why, or who.
In other news…
Jamie Carragher and Thierry Henry were on Monday Night Football, and they completely took apart Chelsea’s efforts to defend on Saturday.
Two Chelsea players had poor games against Newcastle, and it’s clear that one of them needs to be dropped.
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