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

[Saint Domingo]

Least we’re primed to take advantage of any dip they have….oh wait…

 

[roydo]

Will banks be allowed to lend?

Ooh. Hadnt considered that. Cripes

 

[Sharpies volley]

You watch it will have an effect on the players when they play our relegation rivals.

 

[bullybeef]

Chelsea fans complaining.

Sorry my auld chinas, you reap what you sow.

You’ve been living beyond your means for years, propped up by dirty Russian money.

I hope all your titles in the Ambramovic era are stripped.

 

[turner]

Not sure how their squad is gonna take the news when Roman attempts to pay them in anti air missiles and RPGs

He'll have to get them back off the Ukrainian farmers first

 

[Big_Duncs_Fod]

Absolutely made up about this. Nothing but a no mark club before the blood money arrived. 1 league title in their entire history before blood money FC took hold.

Hope they go into Administration.

 

[Wat Tyler]

 

[Robert Heenan]

Dangerous precedent

 

[paultheblue]

Dangerous precedent

Dangerous President

 

[DanB90]

NATO when the victims of War aren’t mostly white people:

 

[Azza]

NATO when the victims of War aren’t mostly white people:
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Poor attempt at being funny or do you have a fundamental misunderstanding of what NATO is for?

 

[DanB90]

Poor attempt at being funny or do you have a fundamental misunderstanding of what NATO is for?

Yes

 

[Drico]

Chelsea fans complaining.

Sorry my auld chinas, you reap what you sow.

You’ve been living beyond your means for years, propped up by dirty Russian money.

I hope all your titles in the Ambramovic era are stripped.

Are you remixing that spiel for Evertonians too? Except for the last sentence, obviously.

 

[Drico]

Absolutely made up about this. Nothing but a no mark club before the blood money arrived. 1 league title in their entire history before blood money FC took hold.

Hope they go into Administration.

Well, I'd say there is a very good chance that they will not now be overtaking us in the all-time roll of honour any time soon.

 

[Drico]

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.

Agreed. I think it's outrageous that Chelsea is treated like this while owners far far worse than Abramovich are allowed to operate with impunity. Frankly, it seems as if Russians have gone out of political fashion - but the Saudis and other headchoppers are perfectly fine. There is now surely a strong argument to ban all foreign ownership if the government can pick and choose which nationals it wants to scapegoat. So much for whatever lip service people were paying to the integrity of the competition...

Fit and proper my arse.