Chelsea were always likely to sell Lukaka. That became clear after he was shipped out on a second loan. For whatever reasons they didn't fancy or rate him highly enough. If they had or you are right about needing to sale players etc then they wouldn't have paid a net £4 million extra on Costa as the main striker & who probably is on wages at least double what they were paying Rom.
As for "barely scrapping through" weren't you saying last week that they were still under investigation? Irrespective did you expect Chelsea to cruise through the first monitoring period? I didn't and I doubt they did either.
Let wait and see what the numbers fo2013/14 show when clubs start to publish their financial results later this year but after the huge uplift increased TV and commercial revenues the clubs playing in Europe received I doubt any , including Man City will have much of an issue. My concern has always been the wage expenditure in relation to the PL version of FFP because certain income streams or reserves cant be used to support any uplift in this .
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