FC Chelsea News: Some Chelsea Star’s Salary is set to be cut by 30% due to their failure to qualify for next season’s Champions League
According to reports, Chelsea’s failure to qualify for next season’s Champions League will result in a significant reduction in their wage bill. The club’s elimination from this season’s competition at the hands of Real Madrid on Tuesday night means that they will miss out on playing in European football’s elite club tournament for the 2023-24 campaign. As a result, the club’s co-controlling owners Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital have decided to implement a new incentivized pay structure to player contracts linked to Champions League qualification.
Under the new system, player wages will fluctuate depending on whether they are playing in the competition or not. This is a significant change from the ownership era of Roman Abramovich, who only rewarded players for winning trophies. The club’s most recent signings, or those who have agreed new contracts, will see their earning power slashed by at least 30 percent. Some contracts have also been discussed which have included potential wage increases as high as 50 percent linked to Chelsea being in the Champions League.
However, those who are on contracts signed during the Abramovich era will continue to be paid their full salaries. Chelsea have signed 12 senior players on permanent contracts since the Boehly-Clearlake takeover, while seven existing squad members have signed fresh terms since Abramovich’s departure. The majority of these players are set to be impacted by Chelsea’s Champions League exit.
Moving forward, the club face the task of convincing a group of players, who have grown increasingly unhappy at Chelsea in recent weeks, about the direction they are headed. Having spent £600 million on new signings in the previous two transfer windows, there was optimism that the new American regime could replicate the success achieved under Abramovich. But a disastrous season has left a number of squad members privately questioning their futures at Stamford Bridge.
On Tuesday night, Chelsea legend Didier Drogba, one of the mainstays of Abramovich’s reign, launched a scathing attack on Chelsea’s owners following the club’s elimination from the Champions League.
After his address to the players after the weekend loss to Brighton, Chelsea’s co-controlling owner Boehly went back into the home dressing room following the 2-0 loss to Real Madrid courtesy of Rodrygo’s second-half brace. And Blues legend Drogba fired a verbal assault at the new regime following a result that effectively means the Blues will not play Champions League football next season.
‘I knew this club with a certain class during the Abramovich era, but today I find it lacking. It’s very hard for me to see how they got rid of certain people,’ said the Ivorian.
‘They should go back to the principles and values they had.
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‘I don’t recognise my club. It’s no longer the same club. There is a new owner and a new vision. Of course, we try to compare it with what happened during the (Roman) Abramovich era where a lot of players were brought in, but the decisions were very intelligent.
‘Bringing in players like Petr Cech, Andriy Shevchenko, Herman Crespo, Micheal Essien, Didier Drogba, Florent Malouda, and I go on. It was done to win titles.
‘They are players with a certain experience. The strategy is now different; we bet on young players. But a dressing room of over 30 players is difficult [to manage] for a manager.
‘They lack charismatic leaders. You need players that take on the game, that assume their responsibilities. You need a player that brings a bit of madness to the stadium.’
