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Been in tears since the RA selling Putin FC news came out. Warm tears running down my inside leg., also known as pissing myself.
No one in world football put over a M a week in with no return, except the Oil clubs. CFC back to level they really are, low level championship. I remember the bailiffs being at there. Hopefully, they will be again. The 50K who claim they went where in fact it was <10K on a regular basis. In the words of Eminem. "Back to Reality".
If anyone likes a punt at the bookies, I hear QPR are favorites for the West London cup 2023/24 season.
No one in world football put over a M a week in with no return, except the Oil clubs. CFC back to level they really are, low level championship. I remember the bailiffs being at there. Hopefully, they will be again. The 50K who claim they went where in fact it was <10K on a regular basis. In the words of Eminem. "Back to Reality".
If anyone likes a punt at the bookies, I hear QPR are favorites for the West London cup 2023/24 season.
When he lent the money they would look if it broke ffp, owners are allowed to invest some he could have just written it off at the time but chose to have as non-interest debt.
Seems awfully open to abuse.......
If he wanted to for example he could pay for a new ground 100% and it wouldn't break ffp as infrastructure is outside it.
“CHELSEA GET SANCTIONED EVERYWHERE THEY GO” 
Not a great deal more insight but still a good read
What do Abramovich sanctions mean for Chelsea and their fans?
With owner’s assets seized, club are confined to ‘football-related’ activity
March 10 2022, The Times
Chelsea are in an unprecedented state of limbo after the UK government issued sanctions against Roman Abramovich, putting the sale of the club on hold and stopping the European champions from operating as a business.
Although the government has granted the club a licence that will enable Thomas Tuchel’s side to continue playing — they meet Norwich City in a Premier League encounter at Carrow Road this evening — they are no longer able to operate on any commercial level, so that they cannot sell any match tickets. The licence will be limited to “football related activities”.
Only season-ticket holders and those who have already purchased their tickets will be allowed to attend matches, with Tuchel now unable to plan any business in the transfer market this summer. It will be impossible to renegotiate contracts with players, but existing players and staff’s salaries will still be paid under the licence. If Chelsea are prevented from negotiating contracts, then Andreas Christensen, Antonio Rüdiger and César Azpilicueta will leave as free agents in the summer.
•Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich sanctioned by UK over links to Russia
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Three, the British telecoms company which is the team’s principal shirt sponsor, confirmed this morning that it was reviewing its relationship with the club. The deal is believed to be worth £40 million a year. The Times understands other prominent Chelsea sponsors are also reviewing their position. An emergency meeting is taking place at Stamford Bridge this morning.
The sale of the club will be put on hold and the government will have to issue another special licence for it to be sold. As well as a freeze on ticket sales, merchandise sales have also been banned, with the club shop closing this morning, but catering facilities at Stamford Bridge will remain open. Abramovich will not be allowed to put any money into the club or take any out of it.
There was already discontent among senior players last week after they discovered Abramovich’s plans to sell the club through the media. A meeting with the squad then was taken by Petr Cech, the technical adviser, and David Barnard, the club secretary, when they were told to focus on football.
Some players now fear for the future of the club and suspect many team-mates will look to jump ship, although there are some doubts over whether that is possible at this stage. Rival clubs have already begun attempting to take advantage of the situation by making subtle advances for Chelsea players, while there are also fears that Tuchel will look to leave.
The government’s licence, which initially runs until May 31, states: “Remuneration, allowances and pensions of all employees of the club, including the wages of players and coaching staff . . . are payable under obligations which pre-date the date of this licence and are due in the period of this licence.”
It also permits:
• “Reasonable travel costs” to and from fixtures up to a maximum of £20,000
•“Reasonable costs necessary” including security, stewarding and catering up to £500,000 per match
•Payments to and from other clubs for existing transfer and loan deals
• Broadcasters may continue to show Chelsea matches
•Third parties who have club merchandise already in stock can sell it “on the condition that no funds or other financial benefits are made available to the club” or Abramovich.
Government officials have been in touch with Chelsea about the £20,000 limit on travel costs and have been told the club could comply for domestic fixtures. There is some flexibility under the licence for more to be spent on travel for European away matches, such at Chelsea’s Champions League trip to Lille next week.
Last week Abramovich announced his intention to sell the club, appointing a US merchant bank to lead the search for a new owner, in anticipation of sanctions being imposed on Russian oligarchs in response to the invasion of Ukraine. Abramovich, who has owned Chelsea since 2003, said that he would write off the £1.5 billion loan owed to him, donating the net proceeds of any sale to the victims of war in Ukraine.
A number of billionaires in America and Europe have already expressed an interest, including the British property tycoon Nick Candy, with The Raine Group inviting potential buyers to table their first bids by next Tuesday. While more than ten potential bidders have expressed an interest, The Times understands there are three outstanding candidates.
That process, however, has now been halted by the UK government’s intervention. Abramovich has had all his assets in the UK frozen, including his £200 million property portfolio in London. The oligarch will be formally barred from travelling to the UK and conducting financial transactions with any individuals or businesses in this country.
The government would need to give special dispensation to allow the sale to go ahead and Abramovich would be barred from receiving any funds. “He will not get a penny from the sale of the club,” a government source has told The Times.
Government insiders say the measures are aimed to protect the integrity of the Premier League’s competition by allowing Chelsea to continue to operate and fulfil their fixtures but to ensure that there is no benefit to Abramovich in continuing to own the club. The Premier League has been in talks with the government since last week. The proposal made by Abramovich of passing the stewardship of the club to Chelsea’s charitable foundation has also been ruled out.
Abramovich has a 15-bedroom mansion at Kensington Palace Gardens, valued at more than £150 million, and a three-storey penthouse at Chelsea Waterfront acquired in 2018 for a reported £22 million. He was reportedly preparing a fire sale.
Seven other high-profile oligarchs have been sanctioned including Oleg Deripaska, the owner of the EN+ Group — a multi-lateral with interests in mining, metals and the energy market. Igor Sechin, the chairman of the Russian state oil company Rosneft, has also been sanctioned.
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They sound utterly fucked and any proposition of a quick sale is completely fanciful after reading that.
Based on that article, I wouldn’t be surprised if they were allowed to play out the season and then it is reassessed then in the summer.
It's the fans that you gotta feel sorry for.........................
Yeah, fuck that. Fuck Chelsea!
I'd genuinely like them to go out of business. The fan base is hateful. That won't happen but if you look at the people talking about buying them, their personal wealth and partners...Well they are business men not sugar daddies.
Under new ownersthe wage bill is 100% getting slashed in line with the clubs organic size. The days of dropping 100m on a player and paying twice what we do, that shits over.
Also I spoke to a freind of mine in advertising who says the reputational damage the association of their titles with Russian money it will take time to abate. Even under new owners he thinks that big brands will want more distance (he said five years) before they were think about wanting to be associated. He was also (this does not come from expertise just gut) big on the idea Roman will drop the benevolent slightly dopey air and we'll see the iron cunt Putin boi he is. He reckoned he will have his lawyers fight a quick sale, and drag the club down in an act of spite rather than go quietly. This guys a brilliant character analyst I hope he's right.
Most of them were too thick to understand. To be honest, there are knowledgable people in the press and media who stayed silent and they are complicit in this more than Chelsea fans (who struggle to understand most things let alone geopolitics)
You've spelt Scouse incorrectly.
Going to put talksport drive on haven't listened for years but Chelsea in the shite with wankers phoning in is just too sweet to ignore.
From the BBC:
Under the terms of the licence, no new tickets can be bought. Season ticket holders can attend home matches.
Middlesbrough v Chelsea tickets not on sale
Chelsea announced that tickets will not go on sale for the FA Cup game at Middlesbrough next week, as expected.Under the terms of the licence, no new tickets can be bought. Season ticket holders can attend home matches.
