Premier League chief Richard Masters hints Chelsea will have to sell players after £600m spree

Premier League chief executive Richard Masters has suggested Chelsea will have to sell players to balance their books after spending £600million on new signings this season.

The Blues splashed out £323m in the January transfer window on the likes of Enzo Fernandez, Mykhailo Mudryk and Benoit Badiashile.

That followed American owner Todd Boehly sanctioning the big money purchases of Wesley Fofana, Marc Cucurella and Raheem Sterling last summer.

The influx of eight new players during January has already caused issues for Graham Potter, with Sportsmail reporting his fears training session are being undermined by a bloated 31-man squad.

Masters addressed Boehly and Chelsea’s transfer policy at the Financial Times Business of Football Summit, hinting players will have to be sold to remain on the right side of financial rules.

Premier League chief Richard Masters hinted that Chelsea would need to sell players to balance and the books and so that they can avoid breaching financial fair play rules

‘I am not here to defend them. The new owners have owned the club for less than a year, they’ve had two transfer windows. You need to judge the football club after three or four years,’ he said.

‘They might have bought, they would argue probably they have a different transfer policy to the previous regime – younger players, longer contracts and lower wages.

‘Obviously within our rules, it is a test over a 12-month period so the question is whether they are going to sell some of their existing players in the next window.

‘I don’t have the answer to that question, I’m certainly not here to defend them but you have to judge these things over a period of time.’

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