3m from Benfica in February 2011 Schurrle - £18m from Bayer Leverkusen in June 2013 Eto'o - free transfer from Anzhi Makhachkala in August 2013 Willian - £30m from Anzhi Makhachkala in August 2013 Matic - £21m from Benfica in January 2014 The Premier League says it applied leniency on the grounds that Chelsea's new Clearlake ownership self-reported rule-breaches committed under a previous era, and that the current hierarchy displayed "exceptional" levels of co-operation. Speaking on condition of anonymity, they claimed that "United lost out on players, Hazard most prominently [in 2012], due to their actions. " Honours in the period covered by the report: Premier League winners: 2014-15 and 2016-17 Chelsea were handed a nine-month academy transfer ban and a £750,000 fine over the registration of academy players between 2019 and 2022. But compare this case with Everton and Nottingham Forest in 2024, when both clubs received points deductions for PSR breaches that appear much less serious. So what relevance, if any, does all this have on the Premier League's other major disciplinary case? Fifteen months after the end of an independent commission hearing into more than 100 alleged breaches of financial rules by Manchester City, the club is still waiting to discover its fate. In 2024, it was revealed that owners Todd Boehly and Behdad Eghbali held back £150m of their purchase price for the club to cover potential fines relating to the Abramovich era.