Originally Posted by
ryanb741
It's very convenient that Chelsea, with their significant Saudi shareholding via Clearlake Capital, is able to offload players at pretty high prices to Saudi Arabian teams, thereby freeing up their ability to re-enter the transfer market. For sure they'd receive far lower bids for these players if selling them to European sides so it is very helpful to Chelsea.
I'm sure the by proxy Saudi shareholding in Chelsea, and the sales of dead wood players to Saudi sides at top dollar are unconnected......