Stefan Borson
Thu 5 June 2025 8:00, UK
Aston Villa and Chelsea have both faced issues complying with the financial rules over the past couple of years.
The Premier League duo agreed last-ditch sales to avoid a potential profit and sustainability (PSR) breach in 2023-24, while Stamford Bridge chiefs have also sold some non-football-related assets.
In an attempt to offset their major losses for 2023-24, Chelsea sold their women’s team to owners BlueCo last summer for around £200million.
The west London club’s latest accounts for 2023-24 revealed their overall revenue fell from £513million in 2022-23 to £469million, while their wage bill dropped from £404million to £338million.
Villa posted a club-record revenue in 2023-24 after their turnover sruged from £217.7million in 2022-23 to £275.7million.
However, the club’s wages increased from £194million to £252million across the same period.
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Chelsea and Villa are both expected to have breached Uefa’s squad cost ratio (SCR) rules in 2024.
Finance expert Stefan Borson exclusively told Football Insider the Premier League clubs will find out their potential punishment within the next two weeks.
Clubs in European competitions were required to keep spending on player wages and fees to 80 per cent of revenue last year.
Aston Villa and Chelsea face financial blow
Borson insisted there will be knock-on effects for Chelsea and Villa moving forward if they have breached Uefa’s financial rules.
He told Football Insider: “Chelsea still have the issues that we’ve talked about before in respect to the Premier League investigation, which somehow is still going on and also the Uefa situation that we should find out about in the next couple of weeks.
“They will presumably tell people now after the Champions League final about who complied and who didn’t comply and what the punishments are.
“The ones to watch on that in the Premier League in particular will be Aston Villa and Chelsea.
“We will then be able to look at what that means next season for Newcastle, Nottingham Forest, Aston Villa and Chelsea because there will be a knock-on effect.
“It’s not just going to be a one-year situation because of the sorts of reasons that they breached the sustainability part of the Uefa rules.
“They will also have a knock-on effect going forward.”
Enzo Maresca, Chelsea
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