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Chelsea spent £747m on transfers last season, according to accounts published by Companies House.
The wage bill rose by 18% to £404m, the second highest in the Premier League.
Players costing £592m were sold for £203m, although accounting rules mean that generated a profit of £63m.
As of 30 June
Leicester City are not at risk of a points deduction this season after the English Football League said it does not have the power to punish clubs for Premier League breaches.
Leicester followed up by taking legal action, arguing a points penalty while in the Championship would be unlawful.
The EFL has now admitted regulations will
The Premier League’s current profit and sustainability rules are to remain in place for next season.
That is despite the fact that clubs agreed unanimously to change the rules in principle at a meeting on Thursday.
At present, clubs cannot report losses of more than £105m over a three-year period.
A vote on whether to move to a model adopted by Uefa,
Premier League clubs have approved unanimously the use of semi-automated offside technology (SAOT) for the 2024-25 season.
The plan is to introduce the system after one of the international breaks in September or October, the Premier League said.
Fifa first used the technology at the 2022 men’s World Cup in Qatar.
It is anticipated SAOT
Sunderland have announced that chief operating officer Steve Davison will leave at the end of the season.
The lifelong supporter will step down just over three years after taking the post during the 2020-21 season.
Davison has overseen non-football affairs as Sunderland gained promotion back to the Championship.
Chairman Kyril Louis-Dreyfus told the club website that “his contribution ensures
Ipswich Town boss Kieran McKenna, Leeds United manager Daniel Farke and Hull City boss Liam Rosenior have been nominated for the Championship manager of the season at the EFL awards.
Ipswich are top of the table, while Leeds are second and Hull 10th.
Leeds’ Crysencio Summerville, Leicester’s Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall and
Brighton have announced a record profit of £122.8m in the 2022-23 financial year – the most successful season in the Premier League club’s history.
Profit after tax increased annually by almost £100m from £24.1m, with turnover going up by 17.2% to a record £204.5m.
Albion finished sixth in the Premier League in 2022-23,
On-loan Plymouth Argyle midfielder Darko Gyabi is set to miss the rest of the season with a groin injury and will return to parent club Leeds United.
The 20-year-old made 10 appearances for the Championship strugglers after joining on loan in January.
Gyabi will miss at least six weeks with the injury, suffered in training, and will receive
Leeds United defender Pascal Struijk has been ruled out for the rest of the season after undergoing groin surgery.
The 24-year-old Dutchman has not featured since picking up the injury in the 2-1 defeat at Preston on Boxing Day.
“It was a pretty long and complicated surgery but it went well. He’s started rehab and he’ll be back
Jacob Sorensen is eyeing more starts for Norwich as the push for a play-off spot intensifies, after scoring his first goal for more than a year.
The 26-year-old Danish midfielder missed the first half of the season because of a pelvic injury.
But he scored a header in Saturday’s 5-0 rout of Rotherham