Net proceeds could mean anything. If he sells for £100.00 above his debt of 1.5 billion to Chelsea the victims of the war would be just getting £100.00. Very good PR game from Roman and his advisors.
Roman Abramovich plans to sell Chelsea | SOLD for £4.25BN
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This is quite important as any new owners will not do this
So he clearly found out the handover to 'chairty trustees' wasn't going to cut it pretty quickly.
I just don't see who puts togother a £3 billion offer for a club in a short space of time, which this is going to have to be, and so I can't believe he will get close to this figure, and any takeover so it surely has to be an offer ladened with loans, and the owners wanting a return for their money,
I just don't see who puts togother a £3 billion offer for a club in a short space of time, which this is going to have to be, and so I can't believe he will get close to this figure, and any takeover so it surely has to be an offer ladened with loans, and the owners wanting a return for their money,
He’s still failed to condemn the war though hasn’t he? The club has not said much either.
If the government had a spine and actually sanctioned him he probably wouldn't even be able to sell.
Actually the club did. We all stand with Ukraine.
Meh. It wasn’t the best.
I think that is coming
Surely if all Russian clubs and their national team are banned from competitions due to their affiliation with the Putin regime, where players may not personally support Putin/War, then any club owned by Russian money/oligarchs should surely face the same sanctions? All Russian owned companies like Gazprom etc are being penalised. Why is a football club any different?
Oligarchs are being sanctioned all over the show, and unable to access funds/properties etc, yet an oligarch owned entity in Chelsea is allowed to carry on as normal, and potentially winning silverware at the expense of non-oligarch owned clubs? You can say none of the players support the war, but who says all players at CSKA or Zenit do support it?
Everton have cut ties with a Russian owned company. Well Chelsea are a Russian owned company. They just play football rather than sell smartphones.
Another point is that clubs even get docked points for financial rule breaches, entering administration etc. This is not the fault of the players, who are directly impacted by such penalisation. So I don’t think it’s a good argument to say Chelsea shouldn’t face any action so not to punish the players. A war threatening WWIII with a possibility of nuclear warfare, is worse than any financial breach.
Or would this approach be wholly disproportionate?
Oligarchs are being sanctioned all over the show, and unable to access funds/properties etc, yet an oligarch owned entity in Chelsea is allowed to carry on as normal, and potentially winning silverware at the expense of non-oligarch owned clubs? You can say none of the players support the war, but who says all players at CSKA or Zenit do support it?
Everton have cut ties with a Russian owned company. Well Chelsea are a Russian owned company. They just play football rather than sell smartphones.
Another point is that clubs even get docked points for financial rule breaches, entering administration etc. This is not the fault of the players, who are directly impacted by such penalisation. So I don’t think it’s a good argument to say Chelsea shouldn’t face any action so not to punish the players. A war threatening WWIII with a possibility of nuclear warfare, is worse than any financial breach.
Or would this approach be wholly disproportionate?
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Well so far he has tried to broker peace and promised what must be a significant amount of money to victims of the war. If that’s failure then you must adjust your life perspective
That’s what I’m saying, the other poster was saying it wasn’t. Different style to how City do it but same thing.
What do we expect here? Are we gonna have half of Chelsea's players playing for Newcastle by this time next year?
Putin has been known to freeze their assets, put them in jail or exile them at the drop of a hat. They have little power. So many Oligarchs got deposed
You're absolutely sure Abramovich does?
Saudi Arabia should have waited, Chelsea would have been a much better buy than Newcastle.
Dont see Chelsea being sold anytime soon. £3billion is alot of money especially when the markets are in such turmoil.
Dont see Chelsea being sold anytime soon. £3billion is alot of money especially when the markets are in such turmoil.
looks like Roman is trying to sell Chelsea before the english gov't seizes his assets which would in essence leave the club with little to no financial backing. With his "loan" and finances tied to the club he can't afford to sit on a 2bn pound asset where he can't make his money back
Is this what being wrong feels like? It is aa strange feeling.
As for Roman, wow, holy shit.
In what sense?
Seems to be the greatest owner a football club has had.
Haha get to feck.
Or a man scrabbling to not get sanctioned.
I have no idea why his people care about his opinion. It's so bizarre to me.
I want £100 for every "fall of the Roman Empire" headline I see in the next few days.
I might be able to buy the club.
I might be able to buy the club.
Man feck Piers Morgan. He doesn't give two fecks about what's happening in Ukraine except for how he can use it to score stupid points online.
Yes; first telling trustees to handle the club, then selling net goes to "others". I wonder what information will come out over the next few days
Will not ask is different to any obligation or direct ask..
The government should confiscate all the money of the Russian oligarchs and then do a full audition for each one of them. And if they find any irregularities or illegal transactions, send them to jail. It is these oligarchs and their thugs that enabled Putin and helped him destroy all the democratic opposition inside Russia. How many beatings and killings are they responsible for?
This is a race between him finding a buyer, and him been sanctioned and not been allowed to then, I can see the price tag falling very quickly.
Probably to the Russian soldiers who are injured in the war or died after eating food past expiry date.
Go halfsies with Conor McGregor
Yeah but APART FROM the players, the coaches, the £1.4 billion loan he‘s writing off, the improvements of the stadium and the trophies….
… what did Roman ever do for you?
Brought peace??
Came here to post the same thing, bet the Newcastle owners are kicking themselves now.
Writing off a 1.5 billion pound loan is a joke as well.
don't give a shit how much money you have or how rich you are......you don't just write off £1.5 billion monies owed to you