So Boris's mates (the Saudis) arent in the mix?

Part of me hopes they do buy us just for all the inevitable dummy spitting. 

2 minutes ago, Zola said:

So Boris's mates (the Saudis) arent in the mix?

Part of me hopes they do buy us just for all the inevitable dummy spitting. 

They are. But people (and the media) are hoping they won't takeover. Why do you think Candy is trying to join forces?

Edited March 16, 20224 yr by Mana

8 minutes ago, Mana said:

Things haven't tightened up since. There hasn't been new rules/laws in place to stop Saudi Media owning Chelsea unless they have ties with the Newcastle owners.

Tories can lie you know, we have seen this many times before - including them saying they had sanctioned Roman before when they didn't. And I can tell you now (if that was a Tory MP speaking), that is a lie.

I know Tories lie they all do it it's endemic in their party but after 81 people are basically murdered by the state it's highly unlikely their bid will be successful. Even the Tories might think it's a bad idea to have Saudi involvement at the moment. With Nazanin Zaghari- Ratcliffe just being released the Tories will revel in that and see it as a win and unbelievably Liz Truss has got some credit for her role in her release the chances of them allowing Saudis into Chelsea will be seen as a PR backwards step for them. As I've said Candy's consortium tick all the boxes for the Tories and will come under far less scrutiny.

15 minutes ago, bluehaze said:

I know Tories lie they all do it it's endemic in their party but after 81 people are basically murdered by the state it's highly unlikely their bid will be successful.

Saudi Media didn't murder 81 people. The government did. That's like saying Chelsea FC are responsible for the Ukrainian killings.

15 minutes ago, bluehaze said:

Even the Tories might think it's a bad idea to have Saudi involvement at the moment.

They just secured a deal with them yesterday! 

15 minutes ago, bluehaze said:

With Nazanin Zaghari- Ratcliffe just being released the Tories will revel in that and see it as a win and unbelievably Liz Truss has got some credit for her role in her release the chances of them allowing Saudis into Chelsea will be seen as a PR backwards step for them. As I've said Candy's consortium tick all the boxes for the Tories and will come under far less scrutiny.

Tories have been through a lot of scrutiny in the past with their lies. Johnson partied during COVID FFS and he's still our PM. If the British people showed enough anger towards BoJo, he would have been ousted by now.

Point I'm making is, if Saudi Media buys Chelsea - there will be anger from the public for like a week, then everything will go back to normal. It's a PR backwards step, but if they make more money from the deal, they are willing to ride the storm. I have seen this time and time again.

And the UK government loves the Saudis. Their relationship is very strong, way more than Russia has ever been. 

Edited March 16, 20224 yr by Mana

17 minutes ago, Mana said:

They just secured a deal with them yesterday!

 

18 minutes ago, Mana said:

Point I'm making is, if Saudi Media buys Chelsea - there will be anger from the public for like a week, then everything will go back to normal.

Yes for oil again as Starmer said going from one dictator to another. And I doubt that there would be public outcry for months if we get sold to the Saudi's. Anyway only a couple of days to go there's bound to be another spanner in the works which will stop us going forward. It's really hit home how much hatred there is for us as a club made even worse by that ridiculous statement yesterday.

16 minutes ago, bluehaze said:

 

Yes for oil again as Starmer said going from one dictator to another. And I doubt that there would be public outcry for months if we get sold to the Saudi's. Anyway only a couple of days to go there's bound to be another spanner in the works which will stop us going forward. It's really hit home how much hatred there is for us as a club made even worse by that ridiculous statement yesterday.

I know there's hatred for our club, we have been that hatred club for years.

But I'm very hopeful. We will get out of this. My only worry is if somehow we end up with the Swiss-US bid. We are F'd in the A if Goldstein becomes one of our owners with power. 

1 hour ago, Mana said:

Nick Candy. Unless you have full say over these owners about the matters of our club....WHY. You are discussing the future of Chelsea with a Spuds fan.

I don't want Goldstein having any say on our future.

I don't know why so many are vexed by this. Who cares who they support. 

 

No one's buying Chelsea to f**k us over because they support Tottenham. 

Edited March 16, 20224 yr by bisright1

We are most likely going to end up to a team of investors. That would change things:

- No more hasty decisions about getting a player or replacing a manager decided by one person.

- Long time planning in terms of success, manager, player-types. If business is booming the on-pitch success is secondary. 

- On pitch success is related to business quite heavily so we need to be fighting on most fronts at least. 

- Chelsea has an instilled idea of winning everything. This will be tested with the new owners. Roman didn't f**k about with this. Trophies or sacking. 

- We can see how much MU is struggling with their ownership. Football-knowledge seems to have abandoned their club. We need to keep hold of the likes of Petr and hopefully JT too. 

 

 

Just now, bisright1 said:

I don't know why so many are vexed by this. Who cares who they support. 

I'll point to you what I said before...

19 hours ago, Mana said:

He's a massive concern. If you're a Spuds fan, why the hell would you want to invest in Chelsea??? And continue to make them bigger than your favourite club?

I'm imagining me who has a tons of money, has business acumen and owns Tottenham. I'd sink Spuds but in a slow, painful way and suck money off them if I have the chance. And it brings me inner joy.

If he was a Notts Forest fan or something like that, you're right who cares. But this is a Spuds fan. Spuds fans hate Chelsea with a passion. They are loving our saga right now. If this owner has love for Spuds, he hates us too. Of course he wants to buy Chelsea! SAVE THE BRIDGE! Buy us and make sure we in the same playing field (or worse) than Spuds.

1 hour ago, JM7 said:

#Chelsea (1/2): It is my understanding that the Swiss-American consortium is (surprisingly) still looking for partners. Team NOT complete as previously believed. Talks are taking place. This doesn’t change the fact that the 🇨🇭🇺🇸 bid (around £2,5 billion) is already in

#Chelsea (2/2): The consortium currently consists of three businessmen: Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss, U.S. tycoons Todd Boehly and Jonathan Goldstein (a longtime Spurs fan). Raine Group will choose preffered bidder after the Friday deadline. Guess we‘ll know more next week.

If you are still looking for partners that suggests you don't have the long term finances in place. Cannot see how such a bid would be favorite or considered best to safeguard our future.

Given they are saying nothing about it I reckon good chance is a 2 way fight between Johnson and Johnson and the rickets family.

6 minutes ago, Mana said:

I'll point to you what I said before...

If he was a Notts Forest fan or something like that, you're right who cares. But this is a Spuds fan. Spuds fans hate Chelsea with a passion. They are loving our saga right now. If this owner has love for Spuds, he hates us too. Of course he wants to buy Chelsea! SAVE THE BRIDGE! Buy us and make sure we in the same playing field (or worse) than Spuds.

He's not an idiot. He's a football fan and rich. He's not going to spend hundreds of millions of pounds to destroy Chelsea. 

He would want Chelsea to he the most successful team because it will be his team. 

People don't get to be rich enough to buy football clubs if they are so dense they would then actively destroy it. 

I'd be very happy with a Tottenham fan as our owner. As that means they are a football fan and his priorities will be about football.

20 minutes ago, evissy said:

We are most likely going to end up to a team of investors. That would change things:

- No more hasty decisions about getting a player or replacing a manager decided by one person.

- Long time planning in terms of success, manager, player-types. If business is booming the on-pitch success is secondary. 

- On pitch success is related to business quite heavily so we need to be fighting on most fronts at least. 

- Chelsea has an instilled idea of winning everything. This will be tested with the new owners. Roman didn't f**k about with this. Trophies or sacking. 

- We can see how much MU is struggling with their ownership. Football-knowledge seems to have abandoned their club. We need to keep hold of the likes of Petr and hopefully JT too. 

 

 

Agreed. We need people who are both business-savvy and still have the understanding that they need football people too.

 

49 minutes ago, bisright1 said:

He's not an idiot. He's a football fan and rich. He's not going to spend hundreds of millions of pounds to destroy Chelsea. 

He would want Chelsea to he the most successful team because it will be his team. 

People don't get to be rich enough to buy football clubs if they are so dense they would then actively destroy it. 

I'd be very happy with a Tottenham fan as our owner. As that means they are a football fan and his priorities will be about football.

LOL! Of course he's not an idiot! That's EXACTLY why he wants to do this. He's a Spuds fan, not a "football" fan as in he loves watching football. 

Sorry, but I find it extremely hard for Goldstein celebrating for us smashing Spuds everytime. Doesn't matter if you are a businessman or not.

I'm not an idiot. He's not going to "destroy" Chelsea. What he would do is turn us to a Glazer club and suck money to his pockets.

He will do things like, invest in a 60,000 stadium and he would move the club away from Fulham if needed to be (and doesn't mind changing our club name to London FC), make us sustainable but not push us for any silverware. He will sell our best players. You don't need to be Champions of Europe to get profits. 

The other owners will most likely not care about our trophy cabinet, they will only look at their balance sheets. Are we making a profit? Yep. Good.

 

Edited March 16, 20224 yr by Mana

6 minutes ago, abramovich said:

 

THANK YOU. I hope this is true. You CANNOT have a Spuds fan running us.

I think we have a winner:

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11668/12567583/chelsea-sale-chicago-cubs-owners-and-citadel-billionaire-ken-griffin-team-up-to-bid-for-champions-league-holders

The Ricketts family have teamed up with Ken Griffin, Citadel LLC founder worth near 30bill. Ricketts Griffin party point out their wealth and the 1bill development of Wrigley field, the Cubs now state of the art stadium.

Guess Griffin decided against teaming with Candy. 

They Ricketts-Griffin bid is expected to make an official announcement today. It is expected they announce stadium redevelopment plans and meeting the 3bill asking price.

Ladies and gentlemen, sounds like these are the new owners of CFC.

Too much to hope they add Candy or Sir Martin to the group? Was hoping for the golden share and fan involvement.

Edited March 16, 20224 yr by axman2526

36 minutes ago, bisright1 said:

He's not an idiot. He's a football fan and rich. He's not going to spend hundreds of millions of pounds to destroy Chelsea. 

He would want Chelsea to he the most successful team because it will be his team. 

People don't get to be rich enough to buy football clubs if they are so dense they would then actively destroy it. 

I'd be very happy with a Tottenham fan as our owner. As that means they are a football fan and his priorities will be about football.

As I said in another post these blokes are businessmen first football fans second most of them get introduced to football at a corporate level not from standing on the terraces in the pissing down rain apart from Matthew Harding RIP.

6 minutes ago, bluehaze said:

As I said in another post these blokes are businessmen first football fans second most of them get introduced to football at a corporate level not from standing on the terraces in the pissing down rain apart from Matthew Harding RIP.

Yeah, I guess Roman back in the day watching Chelsea play doesn't make him a businessman first. *shrug*

The main thing is I hope these new owners invest in building the squad to challenge for the title. That's the ultimate goal for us fans.

23 minutes ago, Mana said:

THANK YOU. I hope this is true. You CANNOT have a Spuds fan running us.

Does not sound like we will. Provided they don't mess it up I don't see how they can look past the Ricketts-Griffin bid.

As long as Griffin shows a commitment to invest a significant sum as their backer the Ricketts can point out their world series win and the most successful period for the Vubs in recent times, and most importantly, a 1bill development that turned Wrigley field from a dilapidated old stadium to a national treasure.

The consortium involving Ken Griffin and the Ricketts Family to purchase Chelsea is not in partnership with Griffin's hedge fund company, Citadel, it has been revealed.

 

It has previously been reported that the Ricketts Family will join hedge fund billionaire Griffin to mount a 'blockbuster' bid for Chelsea.

 

And now it has been revealed, via Matt Law, that the hedge fund owner's partnership is with him and not Citadel.

 

A spokesperson for Griffin confirmed he has joined the Ricketts family to make a bid for Chelsea 

 

This comes after the Ricketts Family released a statement, outlining their interest.

 

The statement writes: "The Ricketts Family, owners of the Chicago Cubs, can confirm they will be leading an investment group that will make a formal bid for Chelsea Football Club this Friday.

 

"As long-time operators of an iconic professional sports team, the Ricketts Family & partners understand the importance of investing for success on the pitch while respecting the traditions of the club, the fans & the community.

 

"We look forward to sharing further details of our plans in due course."

Griffin's reported net worth is 27.2 billion USD, providing a huge amount of financial backing for the consortium.

Previous reports stated that the Ricketts family were considering joining investors to launch a bid, and now this is set to be tabeled on Friday - the deadline day.

The Raine Group, the bank trusted with the task to sell Chelsea, have a working relationship with the Ricketts family and knowledge of 'small circle investors' with the money to make a deal happen.

 

The hypocrisy coming from opposing fans and certain journalists regarding our club's current situation made me realize how much we are hated for our success and how much others would like Chelsea to go bust, especially Arsenal, Spurs and United fans who's heads we live completely rent free in.

There is this general consensous we will fall way behind others because no new owner is going to show the same passion as Abramovich, hence he won't invest that much. Well you f**king idiots let me tell you this - if you want to just buy a club and invest a minimum amount, you buy Wolves or Leicester. You don't spend almost 3 billion on one of world's best clubs to fight Southampton for the 9th place and buy all the Lascelles and Lallanas of the world. 

You don't have to go the PSG route every summer to have success, with a competent manager in charge (see Klopp) you can turn a club into a superpower with clever signings and a clear project. 

As much as others hate to admit, Abramovich has laid the foundations for decades of glory, the new owners will just have to sign the papers and everything is set for instant success. Top manager, top squad, top facilities, state of the art Academy. All thanks to Roman Abramovich.

 

Edited March 16, 20224 yr by petre ispirescu

So American owners most likely? Suits me! Especially if they already have experience of owning a top MLB team.

I just want to know we're secure, and we are in good hands, enough money to see us through, good business heads behind us but with the will to push us even further. The bad situation could turn into a great one given time. 

If we do get US owners should be politically safe for the foreseeable future.

 

Yeah, right now we just want new owners. I mean I don't know who I'd prefer as an owner, but a chelsea fan and someone that will care about the club and fans would be far more ideal.