If true, is anyone else as confused as me as to why on earth a club with unlimited russian gangster resources would take a punt on Falcao. If this happens,surely it can only be some sort of deal arranged to please 'super agent' Mendes.
Well duh.....obviously!! Its Chelsea's policy to replace world class goal scorers with over the hill, over priced ******s (Drogba - Torres) (Costa - Falcao)
I can see the sense in this though. You've got two decent strikers (just about decent both of them) and Drogba as their back up. Drogba likely to leave I guess so Falcao becomes bench warmer in chief. From his point of view though I don't get it as there's no way he's first choice which was exactly the problem at United, he couldn't play into any form. Unless Costa is leaving of course
So they lose Costa, but why would you want to buy Falcao when there are so many tried, tested (and fit) strikers elsewhere that gangster money can buy - that's the bewildering part. Sure, I could understand if he was banging in 20 per season without fail but ..................
It`s been going on for two years, buy a player cheap, loan him out or sit him on bench for six months, sell for profit
Fit and proper person your gansta daddy - (If you have any problems with the long words, just say so and someone on here will help) Roman Abramovich started his multi-billion-dollar business during his army service. After a brief stint in the Soviet Army, he married his first wife, Olga. He first worked as a street-trader and then as a mechanic at a local factory. At the peak of perestroika, Abramovich sold imported rubber ducks from his Moscow apartment. He attended the Gubkin Institute of Oil and Gas in Moscow (where he sold retreaded car tyres as a sideline), then traded commodities for Runicom, a Swiss trading company. In 1988, as perestroika opened up opportunities for privatization in the Soviet Union, Abramovich got a chance to legitimize his old business. He and Olga set up a company making dolls. Within a few years his wealth spread from oil conglomerates to pig farms and he also started investing in other businesses. Abramovich set up and liquidated at least 20 companies during the early 1990s, in sectors as diverse as tyre retreading and bodyguard recruitment. From 1992 to 1995, Abramovich founded five companies that conducted resale, produced consumer goods, and acted as intermediaries, eventually specializing in the trading of oil and oil products. However, in 1992, he was arrested and sent to prison in a case of theft of government property: AVEKS-Komi sent a train containing 55 cisterns of diesel fuel, worth 3.8 million roubles, from the Ukhta Oil Refinery; Abramovich met the train in Moscow and resent the shipment to the Kaliningrad military base under a fake agreement, but the fuel arrived in Riga. Abramovich co-operated with the investigation, and the case was closed after the oil production factory was compensated by the diesel's buyer, the Latvian-US company, Chikora International. In 1995, Abramovich and Boris Berezovsky, an associate of President Boris Yeltsin, acquired the controlling interest in the large oil company Sibneft. The deal was within the controversial loans-for-shares program and each partner paid US$100 million for half of the company, below the stake's stock market value of US$150 million at the time, and rapidly turned it up into billions. The fast-rising value of the company led many observers, in hindsight, to suggest that the real cost of the company should have been in the billions of dollars. Abramovich later admitted in court that he paid huge bribes (in billions) to government officials and obtained protection from gangsters to acquire these and other assets (including aluminium assets during the aluminium wars).
Wall of irrelevant text crits you for 3212 points of damage! I'd look on Wikipedia and see what kinda backstory the Glazers have, but...you know...I don't give a ****!
