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Roman Abramovich hands over ‘stewardship and care’ of Chelsea football club

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This approach doesn't sit well with me.

Freeze the asset, sure. Interfering with the operation of the club seems like a dangerous precedent. Demand accounting, freeze profits, sure. Precluding the club from doing business, though, seems like it introduces the risk of players and employees who have nothing to do with this being the ones who get punished.

You could say, "Well, they chose to work for a Russian oligarch," but there's plenty of other clubs out there with scummy ownership. Letting the Saudis buy Newcastle, then going after Chelsea like this, seems astonishingly hypocritical. Either your government chooses to be political and hands-on when it comes to football, or it chooses to be hands-off. It needs to pick one. This kind of inconsistency will not end well.
 
Martin Alvito said:
This approach doesn't sit well with me.

Freeze the asset, sure. Interfering with the operation of the club seems like a dangerous precedent. Demand accounting, freeze profits, sure. Precluding the club from doing business, though, seems like it introduces the risk of players and employees who have nothing to do with this being the ones who get punished.

You could say, "Well, they chose to work for a Russian oligarch," but there's plenty of other clubs out there with scummy ownership. Letting the Saudis buy Newcastle, then going after Chelsea like this, seems astonishingly hypocritical. Either your government chooses to be political and hands-on when it comes to football, or it chooses to be hands-off. It needs to pick one. This kind of inconsistency will not end well.
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Know what you mean, but usually, when an asset is frozen, it literally is stopped doing anything.

The Govt are trying to keep a club going in some capacity, cos they have no desire, nor reason, to demolish a community asset. As long as RA does not benefit when it is sold, (which he wont, and it will), things will quickly get back to normal.

Hence the special licence, which will be tweeked as issues crop up.
 

So according to the bbc chelsea had like 16 mil in the bank but are paying over 25 mil a month wages which Roman pays out of his own pocket. So if Chelsea can’t pay their players because they have no money in the bank then will they get penalised by the prem league and suffer a points deduction?
 
RomanReigns said:
So according to the bbc chelsea had like 16 mil in the bank but are paying over 25 mil a month wages which Roman pays out of his own pocket. So if Chelsea can’t pay their players because they have no money in the bank then will they get penalised by the prem league and suffer a points deduction?
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Not a clue about the real numbers, but that was one detail in the licence that intrigued me, when it was said that staff and players would be paid. But they couldnt sell a shirt now.

Bigger brains than me will work it out, but if the club cant receive money, and RA cant pay them, (maybe he can, dunno), well, dont get it.
 

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