Graham Potter is set to receive around £13million in compensation after being sacked by Chelsea taking the amount of money the club have spent on managerial costs to over £50m in the space of nine months.
Chelsea paid a Premier League record £22m to Brighton to extract Potter and his contract staff from the Amex Stadium in September after giving Thomas Tuchel a pay-off of £10m.
In addition Potter has earned around £7m in salary during his brief spell in charge.
Chelsea’s extraordinary managerial spending will increase the need for a mass sale of players this summer in order to comply with the Premier League’s spending rules after the club published losses of £121m for the 2021/22 season last week.
That figure did not include the unprecedented £550m spending spree on new players since the Todd Boehly led takeover last summer, which will leave them needing to cut costs moving forward.
Graham Potter is set to receive £13m in compensation after his sacking by Chelsea on Sunday
Potter’s compensation will take Chelsea’s managerial spending to over £50m in nine months
To compound matters Chelsea are also facing a significant drop in income next season, with failure to qualify for Europe expected to cost them around £80m.
Unlike the cost of player signings which are spread over five years for accounting purposes, managerial expenditure is all recorded in the same year.
source: dailymail.co.uk
