He may be (comparatively) safer, but the bottom line is that Roman is still beholden to the same Faustian pact.
I think the £1.5 B loan they have from an Abramovich company counts as an Abamovich asset so that could be seized and Chelsea made to pay it back. However I guess that will just be taken into account in any valuation.
Why Chelsea should be relegated from the Premier League - The Telegraph Why it's time to nationalise Chelsea Football Club - The Financial Times Both behind paywalls, so I won't post links here. I'm sure they're right, though.
And so it came to pass for the chavs , laughs much I need a Tennaman pad , my grand dad used to say " play with feathers you will get your bum tickled "
please log in to view this image They're all going to do this until the club's sold, which I doubt will take long.
Completely off topic, but years back in Tesco I ran into the mother of one my son's school friends who I was greatly attracted to. Now she was married but you still want to make a good impression don't you? So I stopped and we had a chat. When we finished I moved off to realise that there were two things in my shopping basket I had been holding in front of me. Two boxes of Tenna Man. (This was shortly after my prostate surgery and until you can sort out your 'pelvic floor' you leak considerably - and I must say Tenna Man are very good.)
Surely the restrictions were put in place as the owner (RA) gets the money from ticket sales. And the intention is to stop him ''earning'' money.
Given that their revenue is all basically frozen, I'm not sure how that helps anyone. It just looks like a way of pressuring him to sell quickly, to me.
What today is underlining more than anything else is the difference between a rich club and a club with rich owners For a couple of obvious examples of a rich club, look at Man Utd or Liverpool who have always had plenty sloshing around the coffers so they have always had liquidity even if they miss out on the CL for a season or two, so if their owners got sanctioned for whatever reason it wouldn't be instantaneous financial armageddon for them On the other hand there's clubs with rich owners where the owner might have liquidity but the club certainly don't, which is certainly where Chelsea, The Sheikh Mansour Team and Everton fall and that's where a couple of poor seasons, sanctions, the owner falling gravely ill or even mere hubris on the owner's part could scupper the club long-term, and this is why the balancing act is needed For the best example of that, did you know that Barnsley's owners are worth $9.1bn? Now let's put that figure into context Chelsea's owners - $14.6bn Man Utd's owners - $4.7bn Liverpool's owners - $3.6bn Leicester's owners - $2.15bn Long story short, Barnsley's owners are worth two, three or four times what the owners of those clubs are worth, or to put it another way 2/3 of what Abramovich is worth, and yet they're not spending insanely because they are aware that, while the club's owners are rich, if they bet big on promotion and fail to get it, the club's future will look something like this And that is the difference between a rich club and rich owners. A rich club can have a couple of bad seasons and still maintain financial stability, while a club with rich owners are existing on a life support machine and the question is what happens if the plug is pulled, because while there are examples of somebody plugging the machine back in (i.e. The Sheikh Mansour Team swapping their Thai criminal for an Emirati one) there's several examples of the machine not being plugged in such as Leeds, Malaga, Parma, Dnipro, or Gretna
Lovely finish by Munir against the Tory bribers: https://streamwo.com/v/80ybsz2y I wonder who was supposed to be marking him?
