It’s a dogs breakfast mate tbh. The Govt have decided they don’t want him liquidating his asset, so in freezing all UK assets he has, have effectively stopped that process. However, they’ve also virtually stopped it from trading as Dorries has conflated turnover with profit he is taking out of the club. They could have just blocked the sale & any transfer of cash from the owner to the football club (in either direction), making his impact zero. Or they could have allowed the sale but sanctioned the sale price, leaving it in a limbo account until such times a definitive decision was made on where the proceeds where going e.g. charity, some back to him etc etc. What they’ve ended up doing is effectively put the club in limbo, not trading normally, wrecking sponsorships that yesterday were seemingly fine, and creating a club that will wrack up losses as revenue steadily disappears. What’s the plan? As the club is obvs a viable enterprise & the current World Club Champions ffs. The PL apparently found out about this 15 mins before the press, maybe asking them for their input would have been sensible like.
I cba reading back 10 pages. A lot of likes not given, fck it. Anyway the question I wanted to ask is that up until today Roman wanted £3bn and it was widely considered that anyone paying £3bn would have the funds to continue spunking big money on them afterwards. On the assumption the government give some dispensation for some CFC Trust to sell the club.... Now, to get rid asap, coupled with there being no interest in any profit being made, someone with a couple of hundred million might come in and just snap it up bargain basement styleee. So looks like Chelsea really could be up **** creak with some no-mark new owners who'll cut back completely on future spending.
Looks like Chelsea's days of being a big club maybe over along with Man Utd , Arsenal and Spurs . Well maybe including. spurs was pushing it a bit
I did consider posting my stock ‘just read the thread you ****ing lazy ming’, but hung back, glad you stepped in tbh.
That doesn't really narrow it down for me. I came on 10 pages back! Even if I ignore Sucky's diatribe it could take me years. Summary?
I said from the beginning that once sanctions came in, nothing would move. I'm not sure if the government is allowed to make exceptions to certain aspects of transactions, I'd assume that would require changes in law, then you risk businesses/banks/investors breaking the law inadvertedly in the confusion. Also there should be no pre warning which would amount to tipping off, and finance/assetts being quickly moved. They screw you down lock, stock and barrel. I get where you are coming from, but I've never known any provision for this sort of thing. If anything has been done wrong, I would say it was the confusion of the government statement, in implying that they would assist in the protecting our heritage or whatever ridiculous words they used. This whole thing has stunk from the beginning when they announced the 'hit list,' so unprofessional and sending out that early warning. I think Dorries mistake in all this is thinking she has some sort of power over it, she don't, it's careless chatter in my personal opinion. Like I say though, I do hear where you are coming from, and my analysis of the elements could be wrong.
I have to say, your assumption he was tipped off looks likely. As soon as I heard today I thought, someone had given him the heads up. In the end whoever it was couldn't give him any more time.
Yeh but the rest of you tossers will suffer with me Fosse don't need tags he'll find his name and my post.
