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Christopher Nkunku to Chelsea

Gol15
in General Chelsea FC

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1 hour ago, Snedger said:

My god, when you put it like that, we really are mid table material now aren’t we. Or just a glorified academy side.

When everyone is healthy we look like a top 6 team, if a few key players are gone, it's all in the air.

40 minutes ago, ducavis said:

The big question is no one knows what happened to the money from the club’s sale. It wasn’t given to the Ukrainians.

It's still in escrow, strangled by bureaucracy. From the NYT:

 

But 13 months after the forced sale of Chelsea F.C. after the British government sanctioned its Russian oligarch owner, Roman Abramovich, the charity has yet to be established and not a cent of the $3.1 billion (2.5 billion pounds) has gone toward its intended purpose: providing aid to victims of the war in Ukraine.

The person picked to lead the charity, which is so far behind schedule it has yet to be given a name, has described his efforts as being “stuck in a bureaucratic quagmire.”

Months of talks with British government officials have so far failed to yield anything approximating a breakthrough even as the war rages on and the need for support has only grown, said Mike Penrose, former executive director of the U.K. Committee for the United Nations Children’s Fund, who was tapped to lead the charity. The government’s permission is required before any transfer of the money from a frozen bank account to the charity, to ensure that none of the money is funneled to Russia, or to Abramovich.

At the heart of the stalemate is the government’s insistence that any money can be spent only within Ukraine’s borders, an edict that stems from an agreement with the European Union over how funds can be distributed. Abramovich secured Portuguese citizenship in murky circumstances a few years before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Penrose, backed by other nongovernmental organizations, said placing restrictions on spending to victims of the war in Ukraine would not allow the charity to provide support to millions of others affected directly and indirectly by the war, a group as disparate as refugees living in countries bordering Ukraine and those living in the Horn of Africa, in countries like Somalia, who were plunged into starvation because of a shortage of Ukrainian grain.

    3 hours ago, reparto corse said:

    No need for Nkunku! We still have the one whose name shall not be mentioned on the books for next season! I am sure he will step in and do a great job and to be honest his name kind of sounds similar as well. Just have to replace the N with the L and we are almost good to go.

    Lkunku

    1 minute ago, BordeauxBlue said:

    If we didn't have bad luck we'd have no luck at all. 

    Get well soon lad... 

    great song. Born under a bad sign. Albert king. 

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    1 hour ago, ozboy said:

    great song. Born under a bad sign. Albert king. 

    There is a great version when he's playing with Stevie Ray Vaughan in some studio.

    On the club's website it says "extended period" and he's undergone knee surgery. So I guess that he'll be out for the majority of the season.

    4 minutes ago, timetowaste said:

    How do you get anything done with that amount of pessimism you constantly have 😂

    You read the article? States at least 3 months, and knowing meniscus reconstruction recovery is anywhere between 3-6 months. If you don’t want to rush back in, you tend to be more conservative in recovery time. 
     

     

    Edited by Sconnie Blue

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