You can't help feeling sorry for some of the players if this ends up with them stuck in limbo at a club that cannot invest or move on.
But then there's lukaku
But then there's lukaku
Roman Abramovich plans to sell Chelsea | SOLD for £4.25BN
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
Ban them from next seasons CL!!!!
These government sanctions are a good thing. Although, I suspect chelsea will be sold and be ok.
But the government should be doing a root and branch review of all the PL owners and come up with a proper fit and person test! Not the pathetic one that the PL have in place, currently
But the government should be doing a root and branch review of all the PL owners and come up with a proper fit and person test! Not the pathetic one that the PL have in place, currently
Just your corrupt ownership's dealings coming home to roost finally. You had a good run but I hope they take all your trophies away from the club since this guy came into the club with his blood money.
It'll probably be moved to next year if required. Additionally, I am not sure RA would've been stupid enough to have left Chelsea without cash on hand. Them losing a CL place would impact the sale even further; let's be honest he probably knew this was coming which is why he went from trying to make it a charity to publicly selling.
Good. And a long time coming. No one should be rewarded for looting the Russian economy and people and splashing the proceeds on football clubs.
Hopefully this ends up with Chelsea in some kind of fan ownership structure.
Hopefully this ends up with Chelsea in some kind of fan ownership structure.
Won't happen.
Roman is not giving away Chelsea for free. This could drag on and on. All of a sudden the 3b is worth a lot to him
In spite of your loyalty you can’t complain too much. Been obvious from day one how dodgy Abramovich was. This is nothing. Should have all your titles stripped too
Chelsea booking the Megabus to France as we speak
It certainly could and in my opinion should happen.
what a good chelsea forum to visit? I need to know what their fans are saying in this time of crises for them!
We've been telling the world for years to be fair.
Chelseas success is fecking hollow. All that money they took from that big Russian crook and they'll never win three in a row.
Great day. feck off Chelsea FC.
Chelseas success is fecking hollow. All that money they took from that big Russian crook and they'll never win three in a row.
Great day. feck off Chelsea FC.
Of course. You miss the point, which is that this is not the FA revamping its ownership rules, its the UKG sanctioning Russia. Chelsea is not affected because someone is making a moral judgment on football ownership, it's affected because it happens to be an asset belonging to a Russian oligarch who is considered to contribute to Putin's regime. Whatever issues there are with other owners, that simply has nothing to do with this.
They won't get their trophies from the past taken away, but it's unlikely there'll be any trophies to worry about in the near future anyway.
If the UK government own it, it doesn't matter what he wants. They'll just hand the club over to the FA and they'll sell to the highest bidder. Ain't war a bitch?
They should let the fans buy stakes in the club. Like they do in Germany
I have found that quite a few people using the term ''whataboutism'' on redcafe don't understand what it actually is. Whataboutism is an attempt to justify or to make wrongdoing appear less serious by pointing at others who are also involved in wrongdoing, or to argue that the person accusing you is just as bad. Being in full agreement with the sanctions on russia while questioning why the same standards aren't being applied elsewhere isn't whataboutism.
Trust me. I'm last the person to engage in any kind of defence for Abramovich but it is still my football club.
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The license issued to them for continuing operations under this status is rather.. damaging. And as mentioned above could restrict them from travelling for Europe. There's also the inability to do transfers and renew contracts. Eventually someone will take over but during that time they could end up with quite a few issues and there's obviously a huge factor of who actually comes in. Roman throughout their time did a whole lot as an owner compared to most others. They could get bought by a bunch of bankers who come in as investors and rip all the profits away.
That'll be Nick Candy. Mark my words, he'll try and move Chelsea to Earl's Court on a long term lease (as the council need an anchor tenent to get the project off the ground) and he will try and redevelop the SB site.
So the process can continue with the same interested parties. Cool.
The assets are frozen, not seized?
Nope, my local club has (Bournemouth).
It clearly won’t, the issues with the ownership don’t extend to questions over the legitimacy of their sporting successes.
Trophies aren’t a part of the conversation.
Provided Abramovich hands over the process.
For now, depends how dire the situation gets and how hungry the Gov are to get their hands on some ill-gotten-gains
He's a Chelsea fan. Got a ST I think. So we could go from being temporarily run by a charity to being a fan owned club?
Everton have/had Russian backing
Does he have a choice?
I remember the first Russian player Chelsea signed under Abramovich was Smertin, whose name means "death" in Russian
Not gonna happen
UK are selling weapons to Saudis to kill yemeni kids, they would have to ban themselves if they apply such review.
Genuine question - how's this sanctioning going to help improve the war situation? Just because the owner is Russian, how can he help to improve the situation at Ukraine?
I mean we talk about the innocent people being caught in between the war and countries. But that involves Russian people as well.
I mean we talk about the innocent people being caught in between the war and countries. But that involves Russian people as well.
Yeah I understand that. As a fan of the club it must be a horrid situation to be in but I'm 100% sure Chelsea will bounce back (even though I dont want them to)
Cry me a river. How many other clubs have paid a price for shitty owners running them into the ground, and then the club getting point deductions which lead them to relegation?
In your case you had an owner pump his blood money into your club to buy you success. Now you might actually face some consequences for that? It’s long overdue. fecking plastic club.
The entitlement of Chelsea fans. Womp
Womp.
No one here will disagree but this isn't the place for it. Have it out In the Newcastle thread
Applying pressure on Putin.
well, fingers crossed eh! hopefully someone comes in and fecks them up
That doesn't make sense. There isn't a stadium in Earls Court to play in. He'd have to build a stadium to move the club into temporarily to then redevelop a stadium. Sounds barmy.