Chelsea will make another £15.5m if they defeat Palmeiras in their Club World Cup quarter-final in the early hours of Saturday morning - with the Blues already having banked more than £40m for their work under the blazing US sun.
Enzo Maresca could give a debut to new signing Joao Pedro after he flew straight to the States following the completion of his transfer from Brighton. And a win against their Brazilian opponents in Philadelphia would go some way to paying off the £60m fee.
Should Chelsea win the controversial competition they would end up earning around £90m - a huge sum to ease fears of any financial fair play breach during another summer of big spending in the transfer market. They have already signed Liam Delap from Ipswich for £30m with a deal to bring in Jamie Gittens from Borussia Dortmund close to completion.
Head coach Maresca, however, already insisted during the group stages that he is under no additional pressure from the club's owners because of the money on offer.
"The owners just want the best for us and for the players game by game, and they are not talking about the final prize or the final reward in terms of money," Maresca said before playing ES Tunis. "They never put pressure on me or the players in terms of we need to win this tournament because of the money."
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Chelsea received a participation payment of about £25m before even kicking a ball with two wins in the group stages worth about £3m on top of £5.5m for reaching the round of 16. They then defeated Benfica to secure an additional £9.7m.
Manchester City bowed out at the round of 16 in a shock defeat to Al Hilal of Saudi Arabia but still returned home with a prize pot in excess of £40m.
They pocketed the maximum participation prize of £27.9m.
FIFA Club World Cup prize money by round
Group stage $2m (£1.47m) for a win $1m (£740,000) for draw per club
Round of 16 $7.5m (£5.5m)
Quarter-final $13.125m (£9.67m)
Semi-final $21m (£15.46m)
Finalist $30m (£22.1m)
Winner $40m (£29.46m)
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