CHELSEA are reportedly facing protests after escaping a points deduction for making secret payments between 2011 and 2018.
The Blues were hit with a £10million fine and a suspended transfer ban by the Premier League.
But rival clubs are not happy about the punishment with fans and board members questioning why they got off so lightly.
Everton fans are set to protest when their side play Chelsea on Saturday, according to the Daily Mail.
The Toffees were hit with a 10-point deduction – later reduced to six – for breaching profit & sustainability rules in 2024.
Chelsea‘s soft punishment is also understood to have provoked frustration from fans of Nottingham Forest and Leicester City, who have also been docked points in recent years.
Board members of various Prem clubs have also contacted league bosses to vent their exasperation.
Chelsea self-reported the illict payments after Clearlake took over the club following the reign of Roman Abramovich, under which the offences took place.
The club have been praised for their ”excetional cooperation” with the investigation after sharing 200,000 documents with the Prem and Uefa.
The total of £47,524,925 in 36 undeclared payments made to 12 individuals or companies relates to a period between 2011 and 2018.
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The settlement document reveals £23,069,624.26 was paid to unlicensed agents (also contrary to Fifa regulations) in relation to deals to sign Hazard in 2012, Brazil internationals Ramires (2010) and David Luiz (2011), Andre Schurrle (2013), Nemanja Matic (2014) and two players whose names have been blacked out.
Another £19,282,200 was paid out to two unnamed entities in connection with the signing of Willian and Samuel Eto’o from Russian side Anzhi Makhachkala in 2013.
The transfer of another player, whose name was also redacted, involved payments totalling £3,801,482.
And Chelsea also failed to declare £1,371,619.48 paid to former Blues sporting director Frank Arnesen, Piet de Visser, the Dutch scout who was a long-term adviser to Abramovich, and a third individual whose name has also been withheld.
The Prem investigation determined even if Chelsea had revealed the payments, as they were obliged to do, they would not have broken Profit and Sustainability Rules.
