Everybody Profits From Chelsea's Great Loan Rate ; Blues Owner Roman Abramovich has Been Forced to Take a Hit On His Huge Investment by Sending Out-of-Favour Players to Clubs Across Europe in Order to Trim the Squad.

Evening Standard - London › August 07, 2004

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FORGET the Pounds 211million Chelsea have spent on transfer fees over the past 13 months, the amount of money they have written off is even more astonishing. Yesterday Adrian Mutu was poised to go to Juventus for a year and become the fifth high-profile Chelsea player to join a rival club on loan for the coming season.

However, Chelsea now want Mutu to sign for the Italians permanently for Pounds 6.6million, even though they paid Parma Pounds 15.8m for the Romanian just 12 months ago.

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Everybody Profits From Chelsea's Great Loan Rate ; Blues Owner Roman Abramovich has Been Forced to Take a Hit On His Huge Investment by Sending Out-of-Favour Players to Clubs Across Europe in Order to Trim the Squad.

Few billionaires get where they are by wasting money, but Roman Abramovich's largesse is extraordinary and he continues to pay almost half of Hernan Crespo's Pounds 94,000a-week wages while he plays for AC Milan. In additi...

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