How does it come to this?

 

I despair . . . .

Perfect picture

 

 

I will never dislike Roman Abramovich, all he did was for the club's best. All possible net sales will got to the victims of the war in Ukraine. Roman's last move is to forget about the 1.5 billion pounds what is owed to him because he loves the club. I can only thank him for all these years and I have my own right to think so highly about him because I'm a fan of Chelsea outside of the UK, hopefully I do not offend anyone by my views.

Abramovich, who bought Chelsea in 2003 and delivered 21 trophies over 19 years, revealed all net proceeds of any sale will go to victims of the war in Ukraine, while also writing off £1.5bn of debt owed to him by the club.

https://talksport.com/football/1055343/chelsea-billionaires-roman-abramovich-sell-buyers/

He is a very generous person, and he truly cares for this team.  A sad day indeed.

A wonderful statement and gesture by Roman. Sad that it had to end like this.

I find the severe anti-Russia narrative really hypocritical. Suddenly when a white European country is invaded, the world loses its sh*t. USA has destroyed so many countries over the past few decades, killing millions of people and starting (and funding) civil wars that haven't ended to the day. Israel continues to invade and destroy Palestine. Many middle eastern countries including Saudi Arabia and Qatar continue to fund wars and bloodshed. But no one cares. USA's anti-muslim narrative has given rise to so many right wing Governments around the world that all participate in their own forms of genocide and ethic cleansing (but no one dares sanction the USA!).

Of course this invasion and the war is devastating and unnecessary. And I'm deeply saddened by this. But I've also been deeply saddened by the humongous level of atrocities that USA, Europe and most of the world have condoned over the last three decades. And now they suddenly feel they can adopt a holier than thou attitude.

The hypocrisy is sickening.

As are the references to Hitler that I've seen even on this thread. Here, the war is not primarily built on racial discrimination that was the essence of Hitler's actions. If anything, leaders of Israel, Myanmar, USA and so many other other countries that continue to discriminate based on ethnicity deserve that accusation. And most of Europe for turning a blind eye to all the pain and suffering.

We live in a problematic world where every world leader and billionaire has been responsible for their fair share of violence/suffering/injustice along the way.

3 hours ago, Scott Harris said:

I have tried really really hard not to get involved in football tribalism when it comes to what is happening in Ukraine, it's sick and I would like to believe we can put that aside for a situation like this, but rival fans, pundits and the media have made it almost impossible for me to not defend myself. I try not to bite, but some of the sh*t I have seen said about the club and us fans have really angered me and soured me on the sport a bit in a time where you would like to see football come together. I can take the usual sh*t like "plastic fans" and "you have no history", but to use the invasion on Ukraine against us is sickening, and shows the true horrible side of the people that follow this sport. It feels like we aren't allowed to feel anything for the Ukranian people without some snide comment. It feels like they are trying to link the club and us fans to this war, like we are responsible in some way. Well they can f**k off, we are just normal people trying to live a normal life, no different from anybody else.

And what makes matters worse is those people have won, haven't they? They have driven off the best owner in football, a true blue and kind human being.

Roman through the years

Roman Abramovich and Ken Bates (2003)

First match he attended (Liverpool vs Chelsea - 2003)

 

First home match.

 

Jose Mourinho and Roman Abramovich (2004).

 

Premier League (2005/2006) - Frank, Roman and JT.

 

2007 League Cup - Didier Drogba and Roman Abramovich.

 

Champions League 2012.

 

Roman and Jose reunited (2014)

 

Roman watching us win the 2015 Premier League title.

 

The day after Jose's sacking (2015)

 

Premier League (2017) = JT pictured with Roman after playing his final match with the club.

 

Roman celebrating more success - Europa League 2019

 

Champions League (2021)

 

Club World Cup (2021) = The trophy haul is complete.

Gutted. Genuinely.

 

Cynic in me thinks a sale may be further along than we think.

 

Wyss/Boehly and their 3 or 4 other partners leading the chase is my bet

Middle eastern group/individual probably in the race somewhere, and Asian

 

Supposedly though according to some on twitter, that Boehly, owner of Dodgers, is an owner who will throw money at the team to get them winning.  He is very much a fan of Galactico type ownership.  Their wage bill is 193m a yr, how much do MLB players make, thats more than Utd and just below Barca

After that, ive no idea

4 hours ago, Sexyfootball said:

Buck, Tenenbaum and Granovskaia would be my bet to follow Roman out of the club. All came in with Roman, having worked with him before.

I'd say thats almost nailed on. Especially the latter 2, i think Steinberg in the Guardian says Buck unlikely to stay aswell

2 minutes ago, RickUK said:

Gutted. Genuinely.

 

Cynic in me thinks a sale may be further along than we think.

 

Wyss/Boehly and their 3 or 4 other partners leading the chase is my bet

Middle eastern group/individual probably in the race somewhere, and Asian

 

Supposedly though according to some on twitter, that Boehly, owner of Dodgers, is an owner who will throw money at the team to get them winning.  He is very much a fan of Galactico type ownership.  Their wage bill is 193m a yr, how much do MLB players make, thats more than Utd and just below Barca

After that, ive no idea

Well then he would be right at home here then with our astronomical wage bill.

Ah...this one hurts...really does.

Suggestion on a skysports interview that the UK government may well block the sale, take it on them selves as they are not likely to trust Roman following through with donating the funds.

Now personally don't trust the UK government not to just pocket the 3bill for themselves.

23 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

Suggestion on a skysports interview that the UK government may well block the sale, take it on them selves as they are not likely to trust Roman following through with donating the funds.

Now personally don't trust the UK government not to just pocket the 3bill for themselves.

 

I am not familiar with UK laws, but if he was in the US then I am sure he can sue the US government if they try to seize his assets.

From what I can tell, he still haven't committed any crime against the UK or humanity.

24 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

Suggestion on a skysports interview that the UK government may well block the sale, take it on them selves as they are not likely to trust Roman following through with donating the funds.

Now personally don't trust the UK government not to just pocket the 3bill for themselves.

Pretty sure I read that the Conservative party has accepted a lot of campaign money from Russian sources so they may be reluctant to take this approach

9 minutes ago, forbzy said:

Pretty sure I read that the Conservative party has accepted a lot of campaign money from Russian sources so they may be reluctant to take this approach

 

9 minutes ago, haviet1 said:

 

I am not familiar with UK laws, but if he was in the US then I am sure he can sue the US government if they try to seize his assets.

From what I can tell, he still haven't committed any crime against the UK or humanity.

Hopefully you are right. This is a horrible enough end to his time as our owner they don't need to make it worse, they got far more pressing matters to deal with.

Gutted. Horrible to see him pushed out like this, no owner in world football like him, truly one of a kind. Thank you for everything Roman.

1 hour ago, axman2526 said:

Suggestion on a skysports interview that the UK government may well block the sale, take it on them selves as they are not likely to trust Roman following through with donating the funds.

Now personally don't trust the UK government not to just pocket the 3bill for themselves.

Seize an asset off someone who tried to broker peace between ukraine and russia, and is donating proceeds of sale to ukraine fund.  They will look like twats and wont want that, theres a reason he is constantly left off these sanction lists...... IMO

4 hours ago, Gol15 said:

 All possible net sales will got to the victims of the war in Ukraine. 

But how will the ball stay in the goals if he sells all the nets?

3 hours ago, axman2526 said:

Suggestion on a skysports interview that the UK government may well block the sale, take it on them selves as they are not likely to trust Roman following through with donating the funds.

Now personally don't trust the UK government not to just pocket the 3bill for themselves.

Unless they sanction him, there is no way that they can do that. 

As an aside, even if they could, how would it work? isn't the holding company and funds in the British Virgin Islands?

Yeah the vermin are not satisfied with just driving Roman out, seeing floods of comments along the lines of wanting the club to be closed down all together.

The laugh of it is some believe this will bother Putin...

We are one of the best run clubs in the world. I seriously think that. And I really try to be objective although it can be a bit hard. 

If you take out the managerial merry-go-round which is sort of our thing the football-side and club-side of Chelsea are run brilliantly. 

Now all this will change. The new ownership will bring new people in. I cannot see us being taken over by an enthusiast like Roman. It will be some sort of group of owners. 

Replacing a fanatic of the club with a consortium of owners, not sure how this will pan out. If I was to guess I would say worse for us, but time will tell. All the best Roman, thanks for everything! 

25 minutes ago, TilNev said:

Replacing a fanatic of the club with a consortium of owners, not sure how this will pan out. If I was to guess I would say worse for us, but time will tell. All the best Roman, thanks for everything! 

You have Liverpool and MU as your examples. One sh*te, one doing well. 

And Arsenal...so only one is doing well.

Edited March 3, 20224 yr by evissy

I am sick to my stomach about this. What happened to Innocent until proven guilty, one of the oldest values in British law? 

I am honestly heartbroken 💔, Roman Abramovich has been a superb owner to Chelsea FC and the sheer jealousy of other Clubs, their fans, the LFC & WHU slanted media (Henry Winter included and I used to like him) and the collection of BENT MP's has forced our man out.  It was just too good an opportunity to miss. These misguided fools honestly think that with RA gone, Chelsea will return to being a "small" club languishing in the depths of the Championship. How wrong can they be ? 🤣🤣🤣. So in writing off the loans, and pledging the net proceeds of the sale to the Ukrainian relief effort, Roman will make absolutely nothing, I bet that has made all of our detractors choke on their fu**ing corn flakes this morning.

1 hour ago, evissy said:

We are one of the best run clubs in the world. I seriously think that. And I really try to be objective although it can be a bit hard. 

If you take out the managerial merry-go-round which is sort of our thing the football-side and club-side of Chelsea are run brilliantly. 

I can't agree with that when we have been losing millions every year (on average) and have had to reply on the generosity and largesse of the owner, to the tune of £1.5 Billion in 19 years .... averaged out we have lost £78 million every year he has been the owner !

If we were the best run club in the world, we'd be solvent for starters ... as it is we've been living way beyond our means, and being baled out by daddy all the time. 

Best run club ? Not for me. Just in the PL, I'd offer up Southampton, Brighton and Burnley as being run better than us.

You could actually argue that the trophy haul is a poor return for the level of investment that Roman has put in.

Anyway, onwards and upwards !