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

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catcherintherye said:
From the outside, and trying to be some morality to one side (that you shouldn't just steal things based on nationality) they appear to be stuck between 2 approaches.

What are they planning to do? Why are they halting Abramovich selling it and giving the money away?
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I think it is almost certainly solely down to who he is, and what Chelsea is. It allows them to say "we've done something" to someone who went into football rather than the political lobbying side of things here - so all the stories are now about Chelsea and what it means instead of how, for example Deripaska (also sanctioned today) was linked to an awful lot of British politicians, including many with a lot of influence still.
 
tsubaki said:
I think it is almost certainly solely down to who he is, and what Chelsea is. It allows them to say "we've done something" to someone who went into football rather than the political lobbying side of things here - so all the stories are now about Chelsea and what it means instead of how, for example Deripaska (also sanctioned today) was linked to an awful lot of British politicians, including many with a lot of influence still.
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Yes probably right.

I think most of what this lot do, is essentially just reactive, short term, image managing. Idiots.

Edit, what they really don't want is people asking questions about institutional corruption. They'll throw anyway under the bus to avoid that.
 
Seeing for the first time all the restrictions placed on Chelsea. Quite stringent.
I'm watching that Kaveh joker on Sky sports talking about the situation like he is an official spokesman. He's a clown, everything prefixed " I'm told", "A source tells me", "I'm led to believe" does anyone take him seriously?
 

catcherintherye said:
Yes probably right.

I think most of what this lot do, is essentially just reactive, short term, image managing. Idiots.

Edit, what they really don't want is people asking questions about institutional corruption. They'll throw anyway under the bus to avoid that.
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that last bit exactly - in fact I don't know if you've seen this from Oborne in the MEE today but it touches on a lot of that:

 
catcherintherye said:
Yes. I just don't know how they think it plays out when money runs out. Are banks allowed to extend credit?
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Possibly, the Gov are making most of it up as they go along, unchartered territory. Can see many litigations if Chelsea avoid what should probably be administration.

Uefa threw all the Russian clubs out of their competitions, certainly a genuine question to ask why not Chelsea also.
 
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Possibly, the Gov are making most of it up as they go along, unchartered territory. Can see many litigations if Chelsea avoid what should probably be administration.

Uefa threw all the Russian clubs out of their competitions, certainly a genuine question to ask why not Chelsea also.
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Yes. If they dont deduct points for admin, any future club they try to do it to will sue.

I dont think they have really thought through the ramifications.
 

Drico said:
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.
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You can get me on board with banning foreign ownership. 50+1 works for the Germans. I'm not sure if the problems associated with the Spanish socio approach result from the model or the Spanish. That answer is probably some of both.

What bothers me is selectively banning foreign ownership after the fact. That's banana republic stuff. It may be emotionally satisfying, but it's not in the long-term best interest of English football.

I'm not going to stake out a position on whether or not you should allow foreign ownership. It's a complex issue, with a lot of moving parts. The problem is that if we recast this situation, and say that a Latin American country encouraged billions in foreign direct investment then seized that investment over politics, there would be outrage all over the West. Mainstream pundits would say that the country is politically unstable, is lawless and unworthy of FDI, etc. etc. etc.

Hypocrisy is never a good look.
 

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