Given what’s going on in Ukraine, should the club drop the association with Aeroflot or just take the money and support the Russians?
Should the club drop Aeroflot as a sponsor? | Dropped
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It will definitely be dropped.
Yeah I'd say it will
Feel like the right time for the club to make a heel turn
Yes.
A quick Google shows all papers with stories that we’re prepping to end the deal.
Yes. Any and every opportunity to stop support of russia in any and every regard should be taken.
Definitely.
If there’s a big surge of clubs dropping their association with Russian sponsors etc, what do Chelsea do?
Do they have a choice?
Hell, yes!
I'm not sure what the justification for not doing so would be.
100% should have happened the moment Russian forces crossed into Ukraine.
Club looking really bad in this.
Club looking really bad in this.
Just like we prepare transfer bids? So nothing will happen then.
Shame on the club.
Absolutely
With sanctions having been announced, Aeroflot will no longer be seen in OT or UK as a whole. Flipping great. I am not flying them anytime soon either.
Yes, regardless of whether we can get the same value from another sponsor.
The invasion will be over before we put in a bid.
Considering they are about 2bn in debt to one, now might be a good time to cut all ties and leave the debt.
Ken Bates can then buy them again for a pound and they can go back to having player managers and the odd good cup run.
Most likely the legal process of terminating the contracts have already started.
Yes, will definitely happen
I’m sensing a Ted Lasso moment, players taping over the sleeves.
I’m amazed this question even needs to be asked…FVCK Putin
They’ve been banned from operating in the UK so I would bet all sponsorship payments in the UK have stopped also, so I would expect United to make a statement soon about removal of their logo on anything and everything
They’ve been sanctioned, no legal process needed
With Aeroflot now banned from flying into the UK, it should be an easy decision to drop them, but it would absolutely the right thing to do; as should any other clubs with connections to state-backed Russian enterprises.
Absolutely
Effectively we stopped using them as of Tuesday given we didn't use them to fly out of the UK, so we actually pre-empted it in effect.
Probably just working on a proper press release.
Sure. While we’re at it, we will return to bring your bogey team. Those big wins were a lot more sweeter back then.
In all honesty, nothing is going to change at Chelsea.
They only did that to avoid ending up stranded in Spain. A properly run organization would have had a plan in place to immediately end that relationship once Russia invaded Ukraine. The club's reputation is at stake here and that is not something a properly run organization takes lightly.
MUTV have just shown an Aeroflot advert, at the end of the FA Youth Cup match.
Which bogey team will you bring?
That’s poor form by us.
Schalke have removed the Gazprom mention from their sleeves. UK PM has banned Aeroflot flights from what I saw.
United would do well to disassociate themselves with them.
United would do well to disassociate themselves with them.
We should be faxing over the termination notice right now.
Then get a sponsorship with Pepe's Peri Peri. Yum.
Then get a sponsorship with Pepe's Peri Peri. Yum.
Classy…
Yes and the club should think about entering into other sponsorships associated with questionable regimes in the future.
Really, really poor.
Yes they should. The replacement deal with Ryanair can't come soon enough