By Daily Sports on January 8, 2020
Sacking Italian manager Antonio Conte in July 2018 cost Chelsea £26.6 million in compensation and legal fees, according to the Premier League club's accounts for the 2018-19 season.
Conte joined the West Londoners in 2016, and won the league in 2017, but was dismissed with 12 months to run on his contract.
Fellow-Italian Maurizio Sarri, his replacement, lasted a season before moving to Juventus.
The accounts, published on the Companies House website, said exceptional items of £26.6 million related to "changes in respect of the men's team management and coaching staff, together with associated legal costs."
Former Italy midfielder Conte is now coaching Serie A side Inter Milan.
Exceptional items in the previous year of six million related entirely to the buyback of retail, licensing and sponsorship rights.
The accounts also showed Chelsea received £247 million of increased funding from Russian billionaire owner Roman Abramovich in the year covered.
“The company has received confirmation from its parent undertaking that sufficient funds will be provided to finance the business for the foreseeable future,” the accounts added.
The Daily Telegraph reported that the firing of nine permanent managers in the Abramovich era had cost more than £90 million.
The club made a loss of £96 million after taxation, compared to a £60.1 million profit in 2017-18 and said this was due mainly to increased wages and salary costs as well as reduced profit on player sales. (Reuters)
•PHOTO: Antonio Conte
Source Daily Sports
Posted January 8, 2020
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