Chelsea are in danger of becoming also-rans in race for financial supremacy

By Jason Burt Published: 7:00AM GMT 05 March 2010

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Quiet time: Inter physical education instructor Jose Mourinho is underneath orders from Inter owners Massimo Moratti not to verbalise to the press at benefaction after the "handcuffs" situation Photo: REUTERS

Manchester United and, all of a sudden, Arsenal are respirating down Chelsea"s necks in the Premier League but they will be confident, notwithstanding new wobbles, of lasting the pace.

For this deteriorate at least. However the new Deloitte Football Money League won"t have done gentle celebration of the mass for Gourlay and co. The title news, of course, was the prevalence of Spanish giants Real Madrid and Barcelona, securing tip spots, interjection partly to the strength of the euro.

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Below that the majority conspicuous transformation was Arsenal leapfrogging Chelsea with a 7 per cent climb in income �224 million a year compared to the �206 million at the Bridge, where income was down 3 per cent. It looks similar to a trend. Arsenal are, as the rest of football are fast anticipating out, branch in to a monetary powerhouse. A income machine.

Chelsea have Roman Abramovich. And there"s the rub. What does the Russian billionaire do? One of Gourlay"s main tasks is to cut spending especially shortening that startling salary bill. Hence the interregnum over Joe Cole"s stipulate talks a free representative in 4 months and the cold shoulder, for now, shown to Nicolas Anelka, who is additionally after a big strike up.

Chelsea"s patrol is ageing and Abramovich balked at the silly send fees being demanded for the likes of Sergio Aguero and Franck Ribery.

Such box bureau would positively pull in some-more fans but with a genius of 42,449 there is usually so most income Chelsea can fist out of the Bridge. They have deliberate relocating but that"s valid tricky, whilst Gourlay validated the plan to stay where they are for the foreseeable future. He"s additionally floated the thought of fixing rights for the stadium.

Chelsea can, possibly, hang an additional 7,000 seats on the genius with an additional harvesting machine to the Matthew Harding Stand but that plan has been lying asleep for five years now. So what is Abramovich to do? With both Manchester clubs looming to have the monetary wherewithal to contest it would appear he might have to dig low in to his own pockets, again, to last the pace.

John Terry"s mother adds to contemptible affair

Talking of Chelsea, one of the greatest bugbears over John Terry"s poise judging by the opinions being aired is his disaster to contend one word to Wayne Bridge.

Sorry. If only, Terry has told friends, it was so simple. The right away former England captain deliberate arising an reparation to his right away former crony in the evident fallout over his event with Vanessa Perroncel. And it would have alleviated a little of the pressure.

There was one problem, it seems. As piece of her agreement to take him back, Terry"s mother Toni is accepted to have insisted that he speaks no some-more of the event and positively doesn"t verbalise publicly possibly about what happened or contend he was sorry. In a clarity it sounds similar to being in rejection for Mrs Terry but he felt he had to go along with it.

Sources, meanwhile, contend that he has spoken, twice, to Bridge nonetheless they won"t hold the sum of those admittedly short conversations.

Jose Mourinho eyes exit doorway at Inter

Terry"s former manager, Jose Mourinho, will be behind at Stamford Bridge shortly enough, bringing his Inter Milan group for that smoothly staid Champions League tie on Tuesday week. What a match. Mourinho will already be choreographing his opening to the media room for a press discussion that will be supercharged.

Interestingly he"s underneath orders not to verbalise to the press at benefaction an sequence that has come without delay from Inter owners Massimo Moratti since of the club"s distrurbance over his three-match made at home touchline anathema for a "handcuffs" gesticulate in a new Serie A game. Mourinho has left to fight in Italy and, notwithstanding Moratti"s protestations, appears to be impending the exit door.

Steven Gerrard"s name keeps removing related with a move to Inter, where he would stick on up with Mourinho, who desired the Liverpool midfielder whilst he was at Chelsea and came so close to shopping him. The high courtesy is mutual, with Gerrard carrying told friends that if Rafael Benítez left Liverpool he would love to see Mourinho at Anfield. But Manchester City might well have a contend in that.

West Ham lose their vigilance in cost-cutting exercise

The cost-cutting at West Ham United (�110 million in the red don"t dont think about nonetheless no one has nonetheless fit that explain or the one that David Sullivan and David Gold paid �50 million or so for 50 per cent of the bar when it was, in fact, �20 million) continues.

All but 9 association mobile phones have been removed by the bar Sullivan claimed there were 110 paid for by West Ham which, to be fair, does receptive to advice extreme and they go to each head of department. It begs the question: who are they right away going to call if nothing of their staff have phones?