Have the billions spent by their owner on promoting Chelsea from mid table no hopers to occasional champions been worth it? Has he had value for money for the obscene amounts of money he has splashed out without thinking? When he started throwing his cash around and disrupting the equilibrium of English football, did he foresee glorious successes for a team of all talents? Or would he have been content to accept what he's got - inconsistent wins achieved by resorting to a strategy of negative anti-football despised by all? Does this represent value for money for this egomaniac? Any thoughts?
If you want tippytappy **** with nothing to show for it,the emirates is for you If you want to win the league and bugger the style marks then get yourself down to the bridge.Sport is about winning,nothing else has ever mattered
Is it? What do us as fans ever actually get from a team winning? WE don't get any sense of achievement, we don't get any kind of share of the profit the club makes from being successful... Sport is about entertainment. Why sit there and watch a game of football which is primarily to entertain you if it makes you bored?
As oligarchs and their ilk get richer, their toys get bigger & more expensive. Abramovich is a multi billionaire. Has it made sense in financial terms? No, not even close, Chelsea still owes him hundreds of millions. However, there has already been some development in the form of Chelsea Village, and although space is limited, there could be more. Expanding the stadium, subject to permission, will also bring more income. Will it ever make sense, financially? Possibly. As football gets richer and richer, it could eventually become a financially viable investment.
Chavbus FC have had to spend big, same with ££££ to catch up with UTD and Arsenal. Both the one thing both cant do is get a fanbase of any note
Chelsea's trophies haven't cost Abramovich a penny. It's a well documented fact that Chelsea have won everything on a net spend of exactly zero pounds. Also QPR only took 700 to an away game against Mansfield in February 1977.
Is 50 million on a boat good value for money? or a few million on a piece of art? No idea? No me neither. How any of us could possibly imagine what represents good value to a billionaire. I give this thread a C-. Nice WUM effort but a little desperate.
This. How can people not understand what professional sport is about. Absolutely insane. You dont get paid to entertain or be nice and polite. You are paid to win and succeed. There is nothing else, the rest is just a bonus. Obviously as fans we want to see great free flowing football but the clubs, regardless of which, play to win.
With this, I agree. People may rant and rave about Mourinho and his sometimes negative tactics - he's there to win! And he will employ any tactics he deems necessary to try and achieve that. Yes, we'd all rather see our team play free flowing, attacking fooball, and win everything in sight. But, realistically, sometimes you just have to play it a different way to get the result.
But the point is, Chelsea is an ego trip for Abramovich. Is he happy with what his money has bought him? Chelsea have just won their first title in 5 years playing dour anti-football to achieve it. Is that value for money for him? Surely, for the billions he's spent, he wants a team like Barcelona, who get all the plaudits as well as winning often.
As much as I understand the Mourinho approach, I thought that this was the reason that Abramovich sacked him in the first place.
Depends on what Roman Abramovich real agenda was, and still is, was it for the pleasure of taking a team that was behind the then powers of English football, Manu, arsenal and Liverpool and taking them to the top, was it a power trip, look what my money can do? I seem to remember someone claiming (think it was on this forum) that abramovich bought Chelsea to keep his profile up, and keep him in the public eye (look at all the media attention he gets) so that Russian gangsters/government/ other enemies would be less likely to try and kill him. No idea if that's true, but it makes a bit of sense. The guy never got that rich without making some powerful enemies. If he wanted to build the worlds best team, say like a barca of the last 6 years that people would revel in and remember in 50 years time it was probably not great value, but again it all depends on his motive in the first place
People like Abramovich are motivated primarily by money, or profit. I suspect his main objectives were, firstly to get money out of Russia and away from the possible clutches of Putin. And secondly, to invest in something that would show a profit. I would think that his obvious liking for football, plus the location of CFC attracted him. Now, CFC as a business, has not been profitable. However, those of you familiar with London will know that the ground and its surroundings stand on some of the most valuable real estate in the country - possibly on the planet. In that sense, the value of his investment has grown substantially. Central London property prices have skyrocketed in the 12 odd years since he bought the place.
That's irrelevant. CFC, the business, as an investment for Abramovich, has been a loss maker. The business still owes him hundreds of millions.
