there's no indication/proof at this stage the players did anything wrong - this is off the books payments by Chelsea to 3rd parties/agents but perhaps some of it did end up with the players
the PL are also claiming that were these payments declared it wouldn't have resulted in a PSR breach, which makes some sense in that some of the payments happened before the rules came into place and Chelsea were somehow ran at a £900k a week loss for 19years under Abramovich without breaking those rules anyway.
What's curious is why they did it then? Why have some players names been redacted? & Why does this all stink to high heaven?