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REVEALED: The millions it cost Chelsea to sack Mourinho

The Stamford Bridge side's accounts have shown that the club made a sizeable loss, despite selling Ramires for £25 million to the Chinese Super League

Chelsea paid more than £8 million to sack Jose Mourinho and his coaching staff in December 2015, the club’s accounts have shown.

The Blues’ balance sheet for the year end to June 2016 has been made available at Companies House and shows that “termination payments and compensation ... in relation to the changes in the first team management during the year” reached £8.3m in total.

It was made clear that Chelsea had made a loss of £77.