More specifically, will the 5th place team get the chance to play in UCL next season?
West Ham? Spurs?
Roman Abramovich plans to sell Chelsea | SOLD for £4.25BN
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West Ham? Spurs?
Yes, they're just scummy capitalists.
Lots of the Russian billions are filthy. The way the wealth was distributed after the fall of the USSR was insane, and encouraged by the west.
But he loves it?
Just strip the club from him and give it to me. Easy.
I have no sympathy for the supporters, they were more than happy to take the sugar daddy money and ignore being a plastic club that made a mockery of financial fair play for over a decade
You love to see it
This is happening so quickly! Crazy times man
They didn't deserve to hit the big time on the back of a crooked owner, so it all levels out.
Not heard from a few on this thread in a while... thoughts @duffer ?
Our opposition fans are going to have some fun now. But they will have to deal with the depression of finishing lower than a team that has had to go through this eventually.
Like hell they don’t .
Wait, you mean to tell me these sanctions against Chelsea because Roman is Russian is based on politics and not human rights?!!
Lies!
Ding, ding, ding. And the PL is feeling the heat on this too, as their Fit & Proper ownership tests are a bunch of BS anyways...still are (i.e. Newcastle).
The first time I am annoyed for sport reasons for quite a while.
Yes you will finish higher this season. Doesn’t mean we cant have fun
Hahaha that'll teach those thick cnuts for chanting his name the other week.
All this talk about the men's team getting sanctioned...but it's an entire club that needs to be punished if they are still under RA's ownership.
Women's team, youth/academy, etc. They need to feel the pains. To that, all of Chelsea's loaned players should be sent back to Chelsea. Why should other clubs pay for these assets who are technically owned by Chelsea's RA?
Punish the lot of them. It's an entire club, not just the men's first team.
Women's team, youth/academy, etc. They need to feel the pains. To that, all of Chelsea's loaned players should be sent back to Chelsea. Why should other clubs pay for these assets who are technically owned by Chelsea's RA?
Punish the lot of them. It's an entire club, not just the men's first team.
They should be deducted 20 points. It's the only right thing to do.
If there is a club to finish below. That’s a big if.
Chelsea fans really are the least likeable in the country.
The first of the donor clubs to collapse?
Exactly.
Nah, Norwich play in yellow, Chelsea skins.
Next home game, jumpers for goalposts, slice of orange and a cup of Oxo at halftime and a rubdown with vaseline
On twitter i am already seeing Chelsea fans suddenly remembering the victims of Yemen and those poor immigrants in UAE. Football is great at whitewashing
Oh yeah, that is fecking hilarious.
Hope they run out of the right sizeYou love to see it
30 points because we are so shit that 20 points wont be enough to overtake them. 30 points if we are serious to punish them. Thats what Gandhi would have done if he was still alive today
This
A good friend of mine and fellow united supporter called me earlier and talked about he feels sorry for the fans. It's hard for me to say I share the same feelings. Chelsea fans are some of the worst I've come across.
I knew one who watched games at an Atlanta bar I used to frequent on matchdays in the late 2000s. He was from London, a proper wannabe hardcore tough guy type who claimed to be a former member of the infamous headhunters hooligan gang that rose to prominence in the 80s. He named his daughter Chelsea, but she ended up supporting united! I hope this news causes him more pain haha.
Yeah must be a suspension clause or similar in the contract.
Can they give contracts to players from their own academy or is that also prohibited?
Sure. Great comment.
They were also extremely flippant about all this until the sanctions against RA today (and some continue to be). I find it very hard to be sympathetic under those circumstances.
He'll just not get paid, because they will say they are broke.
Can we grab any players from them?
Reece James
Kante
Kovacic
Reece James
Kante
Kovacic
I would like to think some stuff doesn't need to be said. The invasion of Ukraine is disgusting and anyone involved should be held to account, if that impacts Chelsea, fair enough, it's only football.
Roman is (at best) obviously a super dodgy bloke but I've always known that and honestly not given that much of a shit. I'd be a liar if I pretended to be disgusted with him now.
It'll 100% get sung again tonight.
When I was at primary school late 80s, early 90s, there was one kid who supported Chelsea. And i'm based fairly near London.
Everyone was baffled by it.
The illegitimate funding got you there though.