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Scratch, scratch… by wiNDycityfan
See my post below. Chelsea covers Villa’s ass by paying an overinflated fee for Morgan Rodgers, Villa returns the favor by overpaying for Jackson going the other way. Financial shenanigans.
How does this work you ask? Villa’s books benefit through the entirety of £117m fee for Morgan Rogers as pure, immediate profit given his low original cost, thus clean from the PSR point of view, while Chelsea locks in a massive instant capital gain selling Nicolas Jackson for £65m. Because both clubs amortise the incoming transfer fees over multi-year contracts on paper, the immediate yearly costs are just small fractions of the total prices. The result is a massive net paper profit on both clubs' books for the current financial cycle with zero net cash outlay.
Scratch, scratch.