Jose Mourinho: Chelsea need to sell players in order to buy players in the future

Jose Mourinho says Chelsea will do all they can to comply with UEFA’s FFP rules

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has revealed that in order to obey the Financial Fairplay Rules, the club will have to be more of a selling club than a buying club in the future.

The Londoners have seen the big money departures of Juan Mata to Manchester United, David Luiz to Paris Saint Germain and Romelu Lukaku to Everton in the last one year, the three of which combined raised a total of around €90 million.

The Portuguese tactician said, “We are making money to be able to spend money. In every transfer window Chelsea is losing players, is selling players. In the winter one we sold Mata; in the summer one we sold David Luiz and Lukaku.

“So Chelsea in this moment is not a spender – Chelsea in this moment is making more money in transfers than the money we spend.”

He also believes that the club’s profile has definitely changed from that of a buying club to now one of a selling club, as they had to sell players in order to be able to complete the signings of Cesc Fabregas and Diego Costa, both of who cost the clubs in the range of £30 million.

No more transfer records for Chelsea

When asked if Chelsea can break the British transfer record of £59.7m after Angel Di Maria’s move to United, Mourinho replied: “Chelsea not, for sure, because Chelsea is working in relation to the Financial Fair Play.”

He also indicated that the club are looking forward to work within the FFP rules, saying, “When UEFA decided for Financial Fair Play they were trying to do this to make every team (have) equal possibilities. But the reality is that the big teams, the big clubs, the clubs with more years at the top with more fan base around the world, with more income, are the players that keep being the big spenders.

So Real Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern, Manchester (United) – all these huge teams, I think they have an advantage. But at Chelsea we are so happy with the way we are doing things, with this great balance between the income and the money we can spend. We are so happy with that profile of club we are, we don’t want to change."

Chelsea have earlier broken the transfer record twice, once for Andriy Shevchenko when they spent £30.8 million, and then £50 million for Fernando Torres.