"The Salary Cut Crisis at Chelsea: Enzo Fernandez's Decrease and the Team's Struggles"

The defeat against Brentford left the London team without a mathematical chance of sealing their ticket to the highest European tournament.

Chelsea does not raise its head and times of change are envisioned. Despite being one of the institutions that has invested the most money in recent transfer markets, the results are far from what was expected. The most recent blow was last Wednesday, when they fell 2-0 against Brentford, which closed the doors to a possible qualification for the next edition of the Champions League.

Waiting to close the Argentine Mauricio Pochettino as the new technical director, the London team accumulates five defeats in a row, which includes the elimination of the current European Champions League against Real Madrid in the quarterfinals.

The Blues, with 39 units, appear in eleventh place in the Premier League standings, 14 points behind Liverpool, the last team to qualify for an international competition (Conference League). It is worth remembering that they were previously eliminated from the FA Cup (they were thrashed 4-0 by Manchester City in the third round) and the League Cup (Pep Guardiola’s team also knocked them out 2-0 in the third round).

As anticipated a few weeks ago by the British newspaper Mirror, several footballers will suffer a salary cut product of not qualifying for the Champions League. The newspaper explained that they will not suffer decreases in their payments are those who signed agreements during the Abramovich era, such as Hakim Ziyech, Kai Havertz, Kepa Arrizabalaga, Mateo Kovacic and Christian Pulisic; but the main new faces of the project headed by the American Todd Boehly.

Daily Star, for its part, adds that those who will see their salaries reduced are Enzo Fernandez, Mykhaylo Mudryk, Reece James and Ben Chilwell, who could see their income fall by up to 30 percent. “Boehly has tied a number of the club’s younger stars to daringly long deals, including Fernandez, Mudryk and Noni Madueke. Which means they will have plenty of opportunities to increase their salary again, especially if Chelsea can bounce back quickly under a new manager.”

It is worth noting that some European media say that the man who emerged from the lower divisions of River Plate and with a past in Defense and Justice would receive an annual salary of approximately 10 million euros.

The English institution comes from spending more than 600 million euros on transfers in recent times, highlighting the transfers of athletes such as Enzo Fernández (120 million), Wesley Fofana (80 million), Mykhaylo Mudryk (70 million), Marc Cucurella (65 million) and Raheem Sterling (56 million).

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