That isn't what he said though is it? If we're sanctioning Roman (as we should) we should go after Newcastle too.
Time to get rid of the lot of them and having our morals bought.
Roman Abramovich plans to sell Chelsea | SOLD for £4.25BN
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Time to get rid of the lot of them and having our morals bought.
Chelsancea
I'll get my coat...
I'll get my coat...
I swear our luck will be finishing 10 points below Chelsea when this comes in.
I think we’ll see players down tools now
Can we spin this to bring in a few of their players at United? Rudiger, Kovacic, Jorginho and Mount would be great to have 
Roman and Chelsea started the nonsense that is oil money and stupidly rich groups controlling and buying clubs, good riddance.
Christensen is as good as gone anyway. He's had his medical at Barca and apparently agreed to his contract. Azpi was likely leaving too, also to Barca. It's the Rudiger contract that could be the big casualty here, as by all accounts it seemed like he might renew his contract.
They can't sell tickets. Could they give them away for free? They're not going to make any money, but they might as well still have full stadiums?
Or finish level on points with them having a superior GD.
Just said that now...you won't think that's a thing to do, but somehow I feel it won't happen.
The chances that Chelsea's status quo remains for very long are absolutely nill.
There is being unlucky and there is whatever this situation is
This is unprecedented stuff. Feels genuinely surreal reading these reports.
This could absolutely destroy them.
Kick them out
I think they're stupid not to do it (if it's an option).
Obviously they couldn't sell food or anything, so you'd just have to set your stall out. Give a load of tickets to schools, charities, membership holders etc
I will accept the CL place in solidarity with Ukraine
Bet half of Fleet Street is miserable about this today
Chelsea fans must have always known there was a decent chance something like this would happen.
When you're owned by a crook it's always going to be dodgy and there'll be a risk of disaster.
You got 19 years of glory but there was always a good chance having him as owner would come back to haunt you.
When you're owned by a crook it's always going to be dodgy and there'll be a risk of disaster.
You got 19 years of glory but there was always a good chance having him as owner would come back to haunt you.
What?!
Nah, no matter what happens in the world, pandemics, war, the riding of the 4 horsemen, you can always rely on spurs to feck up worse than us.
They have a £500k limit on what they can spend to put on a match. May not be possible to bring in thousands of non-paying fans with the increased costs that might bring?
Not sure how that works. He can’t legally sign anything over now. Otherwise just give it to a patsy and retain control?
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Yep, I always knew Russia would invade Ukraine and my football club would end up being part of the collateral damage.
If only the UK were able to show similar balls vs the Saudis.
No shit?
That’ll be the whole point of court..
If you look at the mechanism Abramovich tried to implement with the trustees and then the sale of the club, I suspect he’s known for a while what sanctions he was going to face. They line up a little too well.
Sale is frozen? And if the news about Russia taking over production plants of western corporations in their country becomes true, then the UK govt would be taking over these Russian frozen assets.
Not sure iPaperSport is the best source mate
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Ah ok.. I'd missed that bit. That's that then I guess.
No but there was always a chance of something dramatic happening.
Police arresting him, Putin killing him etc.
It was always dodgy money funding your success.
He's a crook.
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Think it’s pretty much just over for chelsea on it’s birthday
the government has no interest in damaging Chelsea football club, obviously
they'll be sold to the highest bidder within a few months
I suppose yes, but the government freezing my football club is still way down on the list of things I could have reasonably expected to happen.
So, he can sell it, provided he doesn't receive any income from it? That seems in practice to amount to something very similar to "can't sell it".
It's not bollocks. Many people have a right to question by the country bombing innocent people in Yemen have ties to the people taking over Newcastle.
Wonder if he managed to sell all his London properties in the time they gave him?
One normal day following Chelsea is all I ask. Just one.