r0cafella Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 Just now, St. Maximin said: Kind of do yeah. I work in a bank and had to read about a few big name oligarchs last year to escalate any key info the bank didn’t know. I understood he would be able to do that based in the OFAC sanctions I read about as that’s how other sanctioned oligarchs still had loose ties to the bank’s clients. Not sure if these rules are much stricter though. Pardon me, as someone pointed out the holding company is registered in the UK (which is so bizarre). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RodneyCisse Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 3 minutes ago, STM said: Quick, get me to a live stream of Rory Jennings face. I don't want them to go out of business. Relegation will do. Im sure Brian is desperate to get him in the studio to do a kick off special. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LFEE Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 20 minutes ago, LFEE said: Pressure from the Labour/opposition government. As long as RA can prove he’s not going to receive any money for the sale of the club they WILL allow him to sell the club. Can see it coming a mile off. And there you go… 🙂 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 Don’t really take any satisfaction from this TBH, don’t see any reason to. Good that Abramovich is being sanctioned but us wishing this on any club or set of fans seems a step too far. Chelsea is just a chess piece like Newcastle is. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 1 minute ago, LFEE said: And there you go… 🙂 Suspect the money will end up in an Escrow account. Similar to how we've held onto Iranian assets with sanctions. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troll Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 5 minutes ago, neesy111 said: It has to be that high for CL games. £20k won't go very far when you take into account matchday squad plus coaching staff, physios, and whoever else goes. They'll struggle to afford something like Inter away, even if they stay in budget hotels and fly Ryanair. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manxst Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 Just now, Troll said: £20k won't go very far when you take into account matchday squad plus coaching staff, physios, and whoever else goes. They'll struggle to afford something like Inter away, even if they stay in budget hotels and fly Ryanair. Players will pay personally. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 Just now, Troll said: £20k won't go very far when you take into account matchday squad plus coaching staff, physios, and whoever else goes. They'll struggle to afford something like Inter away, even if they stay in budget hotels and fly Ryanair. Works out at £666 per person for 30 people, yeah you're right when you include hotels. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abacus Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 There's a lot to consider - it's quite the moral and intellectual minefield. I'd like to hear the views of Paul Merson and Gabby Agbonlahor. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guybrush Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 Good. And if this means getting rid of other dodgy owners in the future (including our own) then that's good too. If they can't sell away tickets, does that mean there will be no Chelsea away fans for the rest of the season? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack j Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 4 minutes ago, Manxst said: Players will pay personally. 😀😀😀 imagine the outrage Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HTT II Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 Give football clubs to Ukraine soldiers… Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WillingtonMag Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 We've brung this situation on ourselves really should never have allowed foreign ownership of English football clubs and the fans should always have had a share. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LV Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 Also U.K. government, especially the Tories (although Corbyn’s lot were at it too) should never have let London be a safe haven for Putin’s oligarch cronies. Chelsea is just part of the bigger picture of that. They allowed themselves to be bought off while Putin’s agents were murdering people with radiation and poison on British soil. Sickening. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colos Short and Curlies Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 13 minutes ago, neesy111 said: Works out at £666 per person for 30 people, yeah you're right when you include hotels. I wonder if they buy insurance for each flight or have an annual policy. Could easily see cover for a single flight to eat into most of that £20k Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 50 minutes ago, OCK said: Just wiping off £1.5bn of debt owed to the owner... a nice sustainable club. I don't know much about how this works, but it might be similar to how Liverpool got the courts to help them wipe out their debts to the previous owners. If you can get shot of Abramovich for peanuts, then it will be him who loses the money, new owners at some point can start with a clean slate? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffJ Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 Guessing he only needed two weeks to get his money out of London then. Nice deal with the Tories so they look tough to the gullible with their ‘Oligarch Taskforce’ and they sell Chelsea for him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteV Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 15 minutes ago, Guybrush said: Good. And if this means getting rid of other dodgy owners in the future (including our own) then that's good too. If they can't sell away tickets, does that mean there will be no Chelsea away fans for the rest of the season? Not sure as the away club doesn’t receive any revenue (in the league) from away ticket sales, even though they actually administer the selling of them. Imagine our fans might be the last set of away fans at Chelsea though (unless tickets for a later game have already been sold) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack j Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 I'd love to know what the players are thinking like. Surely there is a way out of their contracts without having to wait til its ended? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Prophet Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 Chelsea FC is a triviality when it comes to stopping the invasion of Ukraine and preventing the loss of further lives, but the fact that the two are even remotely linked is a total failure in governance from the Premier League. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
enthusiast Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 quietly hoping that the population of yemen aren't magically transformed overnight into white, christian europeans. it's an apposite moment for the game as a whole to reconsider ownership models and the cost/benefit of oligarchs/nation states buying up clubs, NUFC included. meanwhile, i'm not going to make a pious hypocrite of myself, there's a decent-sized part of me having a sly laugh about this. i'm sure there's some decent chelsea fans out there who don't deserve to have this happen to the club they support... but i've never fucking met them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhoywhonder Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 Last 6 months... Rest of Twitter: "Its disgraceful Saudi getting involved in the Premier League, disgraceful" NUFC Twitter: "Don't Saudi invest in F1, boxing, golf, uber..." Rest of Twitter: "hahaha whataboutery at its best you sportswashed fools!" Today... Rest of Twitter: "Chelsea sanctioned? Whatabout NUFC???" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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WarrenBartonCentrePartin Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 Got a lot of Chelsea fans in the family (mam's aunts, uncles and cousins who I rarely see). Most are Tory pricks and one in particular will no doubt be defending Abramovich to the hilt over this and - until they bought us - would probably defend the British/Saudi relationship to the nth degree too. He's even given his daughter "Chelsea" as a middle name. Purely for the fact the one thing they love above all else could be in ruins, I think this is brilliant. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groundhog63 Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 17 minutes ago, LV said: Also U.K. government, especially the Tories (although Corbyn’s lot were at it too) should never have let London be a safe haven for Putin’s oligarch cronies. Chelsea is just part of the bigger picture of that. They allowed themselves to be bought off while Putin’s agents were murdering people with radiation and poison on British soil. Sickening. Apart from the, obvious fact, "Corbyn's lot (sic)" weren't in power there's also.......... https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/jeremy-corbyns-2001-warning-about-valdimir-putin-resurfaces-314188/ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/russian-oligarchs-tories-cleverly-corbyn-b2022242.html Idiotic crack by gullible Englishmen like you are why this country's fucked. Imho, obvs. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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