Chelsea make a lot of money by attending Club World Cup 2025
In December 2022, FIFA President Gianni Infantino announced a change in the format of the Club World Cup - the tournament will have football like the World Cup for national teams - from 2025. Accordingly, 32 clubs participating in the Club World Cup will be divided into eight groups of four teams each with the top two teams in each group going to the knockout round.
According to British newspaper Sunsport, at a meeting late on March 14 in the capital Kigali, Rwanda, FIFA officials agreed on the qualifying format for the Club World Cup 2025 - the tournament is likely to be held in China. .
In which, Europe is divided the largest part with 12 places and the qualifying round will take place within 4 years from the 2020-2021 season to 2023-2024. This means that the four teams that have won the Champions League in these seasons and the next eight top teams in UEFA's four-year coefficient ranking system will qualify for the Club World Cup 2025 with huge bonuses.
The last two Champions League winners, Real Madrid and Chelsea, are certainly in the mix. According to the format, no country in Europe has more than two spots for the Club World Cup 2025 through the UEFA coefficient table. But according to the current situation, Liverpool and Man City will qualify, besides Chelsea are sure.
However, if Liverpool fail to qualify for next season's European Cup, it will open the door for Man Utd to replace them at the Club World Cup 2025 by reaching the knockout stages of the Champions League.
FIFA is also revamping the current smaller version of the Club World Cup - the tournament will continue to be held annually but be rebranded and the Champions League winners will go straight to the final.
The owner of Stamford Bridge has spent $ 530 million to strengthen the force, after being taken over by a group led by billionaire Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital in the summer of 2022. In the summer of 2022, "The Blues" spent the most in the Premier League. He spent $ 300 million to bring in Pierre Emerick Aubameyang, Wesley Fofana, Marc Cucurella, Raheem Sterling, Kalidou Koulibaly, Denis Zakaria, Carney Chukwuemeka and Gabriel Slonina.
By the January 2023 transfer window, Chelsea continued to be aggressive when borrowing Joao Felix from Atletico, and recruited Mykhailo Mudryk ($119 million), Benoit Badiashile (41), Noni Madueke (40), Andrey Santos (15) and David Datro Fofana (15). Chelsea was also rejected by Brighton for nearly $ 70 million for Moises Caicedo and did not reach an agreement for Enzo Fernandez.
According to The Athletic, Chelsea plans to purge the squad in the summer of 2023. In which, Tiemoue Bakayoko, Marcus Bettinelli, Nathan Baxter, Ethan Ampadu, N'Golo Kante are likely to leave on a free form, while Cesar Azpilicueta, Christian Pulisic, Ben Chilwell, Aubameyang, Loftus-Cheek and Mason Mount are in need of liquidation.
If the plan to liquidate this squad is successful, plus the money poured from the Club World Cup, Chelsea will relieve some pressure from the Fair Cards rule (FFP) after splashing money in the last two transfer windows.
