Farhad Moshiri

[Bazlar]

SSN just reported that Usmanov has just been hit with full asset freeze and a travel ban by the Foreign Office

 

[Eggs]

Usmanov has officially been sanctioned now by Westminster (not sure exactly what that means tbf)

But I dont see sanctions being short term. This conflict could drag for years, diplomatically hopefully rather than militarily though

…asset freeze and travel ban.

 

[gazzaa2]

But hang on I thought he was our generous benefactor who was dipping his hand into his own pocket to buy us a stadium and loads of shiny players??

Ultimately the money he's pumped in is mostly debt (unless written off in sale price) which will make us unattractive to a prospective buyer.

 

[ToffeeTim]

…asset freeze and travel ban.

Makes sense i suppose

 

[Curtis]

Has anyone ever financed a stadium through GoFundMe?

 

[ZissouBlue]

Yeah let’s gets rid of the billionaire owner who is getting us a new stadium and has pumped half a billion into transfer…… wow.

Absolutely 100% stand by that. Moshiri has been a disaster for the club. There are plenty of other billionaires in the world.

 

[toffee matt]

The guy is nothing more than Usmanov’s wallet / tax dodger.

Achieved nothing in his life without the fat slug backing him up

Pretty clear to me the club is up for sale

 

[gazzaa2]

My prediction is BMD will still go ahead as its financed privately via a loan however due to our sponser issue the days of us spending money in the transfer window are done outside of summer windows when we sell someone for massive money (DCL, Richarlison) as FFP simply wont allow us.

Basically our best hope of competing long term now is the new stadium being built and Mosh Man finding a Middle Eastern Royal to buy us out and use their national owned companies to sponser us to get around FFP.

Frustrating.

Priority needs to be getting the stadium built, we don't want to be another Valencia.

 

[AndyC]

Moshiri has stepped down from the board of USM

 

[Bedfordblue]

So now he’s stood down as Chairman of USM, wonder if he’ll get a hefty pay off from uncle Uzzy…….

 

[random]

Well, thats either a stage managed/agreed short term fix for hopefully a short term issue.

Or, he has some stones.

or he is an idiot.....

But to be fair, if he has scruples then good on him

 

[devogue]

Wallahi we are finished

 

[Azza]

Already been removed from the USM website.

Wonder how this will all pan out then.

 

[matty1878]

Have to be over 21 on here, by the look of it, X rated stuff.

lol lol

 

[indieman1]

He has had to ditch USM, otherwise he could be the next one sanctioned, because of those connections. Why has Abramovich not been sanctioned ? Isn't he a billionaire Oligarth as well. I know what is happening in Ukraine is absolutely horrendous and life is far more important than football, but you could put your house on it, if one football club would hear the brunt financially, it would be yours truly.

I can't see much risk of Moshiri being sanctioned directly. This is just all about minimizing the collateral damage arising from his links to sanctioned individuals and entities.

Don't see it helping him or us much. Difficult to see banks or sponsors and the like wanting anything to do with someone of his risk profile for quite some time.

Is Usmanov's nephew still on the payroll? That isn't going to help either.

I'd guess we'll be up for sale pretty imminently.