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

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I guess its the same if the frozen asset was a shop, it couldnt sell bog roll. All it needs is some process to ensure RA does not receive a penny from the eventual sale, then all good, as far as pea brain Roydo can tell. It is proper odd though.

The issue is going to be if they dont pay their players. In that case surely they can leave?
 
Chelsea fans finally having a anti war protest against Russia, right?

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Having an anti-war protest against another country is completely pointless. It's basically just a pro-war protest.

You fight your own government.
 

The issue is going to be if they dont pay their players. In that case surely they can leave?
Which will make it harder to sell. Imagine in a few months if you will, £1bn+ worth of saleable assets just got up and left.
Plus still being liable for any outstanding transfer fees.
Somebody will need to have a good long hard think about this and quick.

Who ownes the club and are they liable for debts and wage payments? is an interesting question.
You never know. They might be able to manage till the end of the season. But clarity will need to come fast.
 
The issue is going to be if they dont pay their players. In that case surely they can leave?
They are expected to honour contracts that are already in place, Chelsea have about 1000 full time staff (including players). They will be expected to pay the police for home games and so on.

They are not allowed to enter new contracts or profit from any form of sale, be it from club merchandise, new tickets or players. The club will have an amount of money in place to cover certain costs, but I doubt it's enough to sustain a long term sanction.

The government would probably allow the club to be sold, provided it can be clearly demonstrated that the money from the sale has not gone to Abramovich and a wonky, set up a week ago, charity is unlikely to butter the parsnips.

New contracts can't be offered, so you can be certain that Rudiger and the other Bosmans will be walking.

Finally, to your point, there are rules in place about unpaid wages to players and their freedom to terminate contracts. From memory, I think it's two months unpaid and the player is free to terminate the contract. But then rules about registration kick in, so it's possible, if the money isn't there after a couple of months then players can cancel their deals, but will probably not be able to play anywhere until new registration windows open.
 

Of all the idiotic acts by this government over the past twelve years, this is one of the most spectacular.

Just put it (and the other seized assets) in a trust FFS, don’t deliberately wreck it to try and cover up all the links between oligarchs and the Tories (or how they CBA to help refugees).

It is shameful.
 

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