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[GMI]

A good article in the Guardian from reluctant Spurs fan Jonathan Liew

Only now is football beginning to wake up to the stench of its own money | Jonathan Liew

Roman Abramovich’s move to step aside at Chelsea highlights the issue of omnipotent foreign owners in the English game

www.theguardian.com

 

[Delboy75]

Too much noise now very hard to see a way back for him at Chelsea. Apparently selling his London home £152m which I very much doubt he will be allowed to actually do. The dream is things get really tight and he needs his £1.5bn back.

 

[neogenisis]

Too much noise now very hard to see a way back for him at Chelsea. Apparently selling his London home £152m which I very much doubt he will be allowed to actually do. The dream is things get really tight and he needs his £1.5bn back.

Lets hope he does call it in.

 

[Hotspur1978]

BREAKING: Roman Abramovich will receive bids to buy Chelsea this week with parties believing that, for the first time, he will consider a sale.

Roman Abramovich has previously turned down offers worth £2.2 billion for Chelsea, while the club’s debt to him is £1.51bn which he would almost certainly expect to be covered. (Telegraph) #CFC

For the first time during his ownership, potential buyers believe he would be willing to sell the club.

Preventing the club being part of sanctions. Club being prepared for an eventual sale… #

 

[taidgh]

Lets hope he does call it in.

In a moral sense, yes. But the damage is done. Chelsea are now pretty much self-sustaining and won't be dropping away if Abramovich does go.

 

[spursfan77]

BREAKING: Roman Abramovich will receive bids to buy Chelsea this week with parties believing that, for the first time, he will consider a sale.

Roman Abramovich has previously turned down offers worth £2.2 billion for Chelsea, while the club’s debt to him is £1.51bn which he would almost certainly expect to be covered. (Telegraph) #CFC

For the first time during his ownership, potential buyers believe he would be willing to sell the club.

Preventing the club being part of sanctions. Club being prepared for an eventual sale… #

Probably by someone we’d be happy to buy us. It will be the final abrahmovich fuck you to us. But surely the PL wouldn’t allow the sale?

 

[Col_M]

He cannot sell for anything because he cannot get hold of the £. So a speculative offer of taking ownership for nothing is a potential scenario. That would only be to a genuine interested party and therefore there will continue to be funds to run the club etc. I can see a Buy now Pay later scenario.

 

[sausage]

In a moral sense, yes. But the damage is done. Chelsea are now pretty much self-sustaining and won't be dropping away if Abramovich does go.

Depends who buys them. Bear in mind that they have, on three occasions in the last 10 seasons, dropped out of the top four despite the spending and money they have. They are the type of club that jokes that Spurs will "go back to mid table" after a number or different events, but the lowest we've finished in the last dozen seasons is 8th - whilst they've finished 10th.

They're a volatile club on the pitch, and they could easily end up yo-yoing. I guess it depends on whether you measure the league or cups, though.

 

[Tucker]

Probably by someone we’d be happy to buy us. It will be the final abrahmovich fuck you to us. But surely the PL wouldn’t allow the sale?

Not really for the premier league to stop him. That’s down to government and they appear to be dragging their feet on acting against the oligarchs for some reason.

 

[spursfan77]

Not really for the premier league to stop him. That’s down to government and they appear to be dragging their feet on acting against the oligarchs for some reason.

The PL can stop the purchase though can’t they? But let’s hope it doesn’t get that far and they get abrahmovich before he can sell off his assets.

 

[taidgh]

Depends who buys them. Bear in mind that they have, on three occasions in the last 10 seasons, dropped out of the top four despite the spending and money they have. They are the type of club that jokes that Spurs will "go back to mid table" after a number or different events, but the lowest we've finished in the last dozen seasons is 8th - whilst they've finished 10th.

They're a volatile club on the pitch, and they could easily end up yo-yoing. I guess it depends on whether you measure the league or cups, though.

Yeah, fair points. But it will be a good while before they start to slide. Look how United are somehow still relevant now for the top 4, even under the Glazers.

 

[Tucker]

The PL can stop the purchase though can’t they? But let’s hope it doesn’t get that far and they get abrahmovich before he can sell off his assets.

They can if whoever is buying it is dodgy. By tv considering they waived through Saudi Arabia they’d likely consider Putin himself a fit and proper person.

 

[Delboy75]

In a moral sense, yes. But the damage is done. Chelsea are now pretty much self-sustaining and won't be dropping away if Abramovich does go.

Sorry mate that’s utter nonsense he puts money in literally every season. Absolutely no way they are self sustaining. Not sorting the stadium will prove to be disastrous for them if he does go. Plus I doubt commercial sponsors will be queuing up. I mean look at United drop off and they have the biggest revenue in the league. If he goes and they don’t find like for like owner they will unquestionably drop off over next decade.

 

[sundanceyid10]

Too much noise now very hard to see a way back for him at Chelsea. Apparently selling his London home £152m which I very much doubt he will be allowed to actually do. The dream is things get really tight and he needs his £1.5bn back.

If he is allowed to sell and scrap the sale through as fast as possible before the Government have got there act together and set the sanctions in motion questions need to be asked. We keep hearing everyday that sanctions are coming, but people are dying and the action, every tiny little bit of pressure on Russia needs to come as fast as possible.

 

[beats1]

He cannot sell for anything because he cannot get hold of the £. So a speculative offer of taking ownership for nothing is a potential scenario. That would only be to a genuine interested party and therefore there will continue to be funds to run the club etc. I can see a Buy now Pay later scenario.

He can sell the club, but he won't be allowed to take the money, I would think. So proceeds of the sale would be frozen

 

[sundanceyid10]

Probably by someone we’d be happy to buy us. It will be the final abrahmovich fuck you to us. But surely the PL wouldn’t allow the sale?

‘If’ he has connections to the Russian leadership, then the Government should step and take the money, if that’s where the origins of it have come from. Who knows with the trail it will probably be very murky waters. To make vast sums from a sale, which has dodgy Russian money as part of it, while at the same time seeing people bombed, uprooted from homes and displaced to another country would be utterly distasteful.

 

[taidgh]

Sorry mate that’s utter nonsense he puts money in literally every season. Absolutely no way they are self sustaining. Not sorting the stadium will prove to be disastrous for them if he does go. Plus I doubt commercial sponsors will be queuing up. I mean look at United drop off and they have the biggest revenue in the league. If he goes and they don’t find like for like owner they will unquestionably drop off over next decade.

What money has he put in recently?

 

[sundanceyid10]

They can if whoever is buying it is dodgy. By tv considering they waived through Saudi Arabia they’d likely consider Putin himself a fit and proper person.

The climate for who owns things and where money has come from has seemed to change now this war has started and questions have started rightfully being asked. But should it have taken a war to trigger answering these questions. The Newcastle ownership is absolutely abhorrent. It is a footballing disgrace that they passed a fit and proper test.

 

[Trix]

The climate for who owns things and where money has come from has seemed to change now this war has started and questions have started rightfully being asked. But should it have taken a war to trigger answering these questions. The Newcastle ownership is absolutely abhorrent. It is a footballing disgrace that they passed a fit and proper test.

Agree, sports washing is right in the public eye right now. They'll be far more careful who they allow to come in for sure.

 

[Tucker]

The climate for who owns things and where money has come from has seemed to change now this war has started and questions have started rightfully being asked. But should it have taken a war to trigger answering these questions. The Newcastle ownership is absolutely abhorrent. It is a footballing disgrace that they passed a fit and proper test.

No it shouldn’t. But too many in the west have been happy to make a fortune from dealing with these gangsters and despots.

Look at how the likes of fifa and uefa, F1, and the olympics have fawned over the likes of Putin, Xi, and the Qataris etc. All for a quick buck.

The corruption around it all absolutely reeks.