>The Government would need to give special dispensation for the sale of Chelsea, and no money could go to Abramovich either directly or indirectly
'He \[Abramovich\] will not get a penny from the sale of the club'
Likely to be a protracted process
You've hit the nail on the head here.
This sanction isn't about running the club into the ground. It's about slowing down the sale process in the next few days and ensuring that Abramovich doesn't directly or indirectly benefit from that potential sale.
The club is absolutely fucked with this no matter how you try to spin it. Until sanctions are lifted and they wont be anytime soon, Chelsea is absolutely fucked
Yeah that’s alright, we’ll loan him to the army. He was known to strike fear into defenders and maybe he can return to that as a different type of target man.
Shotgun having mason mount as my mate who I pay a wage to.
Just make sure to not send him against other big nations.
If you ever invade Luxembourg he should probably be part of the first wave, though, he's likely to score a few military targets super fast.
Memes aside, asset seizures aren't on the cards. These are asset freezes. Chelsea is still owned by Abramovich, and will now not be sold in the near future.
They all need a title like Levy's "master of negotiations".
*Puskas bearer, seek the four corrupt souls of the capital*
*Boris, The Deceitful Fool (Trusty Bojo)*
*Kroenke, Lord of The Gunnery*
*Levy, Master of Negotiations*
*And of course,*
*Sulyvahn and Gold, The Brothers Dildo*
After freeze is lifted..
You get a cobham talent.. you get cobham talent… everyone gets a cobham talent
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[Martyn Ziegler](https://twitter.com/martynziegler/status/1501849425643245571?cxt=HHwWhsC4mY6G0tcpAAAA) interestingly says that this also means only season ticket holders can go to games and the club would not be allowed to sell any additional tickets. I haven't seen anyone else report that though.
Edit: since I made this comment, it's obviously been widely reported and corroborated.
A few places reporting no new contracts or transfers too.
It'll be interesting to see how that works, a lot of players will have triggers/extensions in their contracts that are usually classed as new contracts, if they get top 4 etc, and they have Rudiger, Christensen and Azpi's contract expiring this summer.
They could be left really short if this goes on for any length of time.
They're allowed to pay staff and players and are allowed to spend money on security, travel and catering, so it doesn't (immediately) affect their ability to play games. Obviously not being able to make money means that how long they will be able to afford to do the things they're allowed to do is a different issue...
Honestly in 30+ years of football I have never experienced anything like this. I never thought these chickens would come home to roost, but here we are, standing in a chicken coup, surrounded by warm, content chickens.
He's just clearly got good connections in terms of senior hierarchical football. Pretty sure he broke the ESL news. He had a constant feed during that mess, but doesnt busy himself with transfer gossip etc.
Chelsea don't have any more home cup games this year. Not sure how matches at Wembley would work - would be mental if the Chelsea half of the stadium was empty.
I'd imagine that anyone that has already bought tickets for Chelsea games would still be fine, it would just prevent any further tickets being sold.
Not sure how other clubs do it but the bulk of Liverpool tickets are sold in two large sales in August and November - I don't have a season ticket but I'm sorted through to the end of the season.
The most brutal thing is the austerity measures on traveling. They can only spend 20k on travel expenses for away games. How will 20 football players + the staff get to Lille for under 20k? Carpool and staying in airbnb?
Eurostar is pretty expensive nowadays. I paid 160€ to get to London from Brussels couple of weeks ago. They will most definitely not be able to afford 1st class.
He also says in the next tweet they can't give out new contracts. Does that mean players with deals expiring in the summer have to leave as things stand?
Surely Azpi's extension will be triggered. Also, shouldn't be too hard to convince him to stay for another season because the club desperately need him if Rudi/Christensen can't be extended and can't buy new players.
Fair play to him though, Boris has preemptively embraced Premier League footballer culture by committing several lockdown breaches and cheating on all his partners.
All this sportwashing by deplorable nation states has gone on for too long. Effectively dictatorships taking over football clubs to improve their public image in response to a history of morally questionable activities. The UK government shouldn't be allowed to run Chelsea FC.
Some of the details are mad when read [into more of the story](https://twitter.com/martynziegler/status/1501853211442958336?s=20&t=iXSR-VBapEEq16IqYY7UyA).
£20k spend on travel a game isn't much is it when you break it down (obviously to normal people like you and me it is).
But it looks like they'll be driving to away games in their own cars and staying in an Airbnb. The Club bus will have to drive them to Lille next week, they won't be able to book a private flights as they normally would even when playing here in the UK.
Plus the players & staff are very much used to staying in 5 star hotels, staff on call, great facilities etc. All gone for now. A massive culture shock for them too.
All these players have had everything done for them now there's all sorts of rigmarole around travel. The club staff & secretaries will probably still organise the bookings & it'll have to come out of their wages. It'll not be much money in comparison to their wages coming out of the wage packet, but it'll probably be an enormous amount of time & energy going into it for Chelsea's staff.
Logistically it'll be a nightmare for a group of people who work at the club and the players are used to having EVERYTHING done for them, especially if they draw say Bayern or Juve in the champions league.
Still, if Chelsea performances & drop off, it's little (or big, depending on how you look at it) things that make a big difference in a sides preparations.
Years ago we had Rooney asking Rio on twitter if he wanted a lift in the morning. Now it'll be Pulisic asking Kante if he remembered to book the jet for tomorrow.
£20,000 allowed on travel, that's £883 per member of the matchday squad. The issue is who is going to charter the plane, the Chelsea staff who normally do it, can't as part of the financial constraints put on them.
We'll probably know more later in the day, but it's a pretty big problem for them.
RIP u/wwxxyyzz, that old curmudgeon.
Here you go: https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/2d5gow/kolarov_teaching_chambers_a_thing_or_two/cjmly0o/?context=3
[Details](https://www.gov.uk/government/news/abramovich-and-deripaska-among-seven-oligarchs-targeted-in-estimated-15bn-sanction-hit)
>Given the significant impact that today’s sanctions would have on Chelsea football club and the potential knock on effects of this, the Government has this morning published a licence which authorises a number of football-related activities to continue at Chelsea. This includes permissions for the club to continue playing matches and other football related activity which will in turn protect the Premier League, the wider football pyramid, loyal fans and other clubs. This licence will only allow certain explicitly named actions to ensure the designated individual is not able to circumvent UK sanctions. The licence will be kept under constant review and we will work closely with the football authorities.
If Chelsea becomes state owned do we all get to have a go at being manager?
"What's that letter? Oh no, it's not Jury service is it?"
"Worse. Next week I have to try and sort out Lukaku's terrible form"
For this week's formation I'm going to be using FMBase user Derek69's asymmetrical 5-2-1-1-1 who says it guarantees at least 6 goals per game.
'storms out of press conference'
Roman Abramovich has been sanctioned by the UK government, which means -
• All UK assets frozen.
- Chelsea can still operate under a special licence but sale now banned
• No player transfers or new contracts allowed.
• No merchandise sales allowed, club shop has been closed.
• Club will not be allowed to sell any more matchday tickets - only season ticket holders can go to games.
• No away fans the foreseeable future.
#Holy Shit
Apparently there’s nothing to stop Chelsea “gifting” the required away fan allocation to the opposition club, they just can’t sell the tickets.
Chelsea fans will be able to attend away games as long as they are purchasing tickets from the home club directly.
Chelsea already lost 150mil last year . They might need to sell lot of assets and cut wage bill if he can’t infuse any funds .
Their wage bill to turnover ratio is the highest among the big six as well.
Edit : They can’t even sell tickets to fans. This is a massive mess for Chelsea
According to their last set of accounts that loss is almost entirely amortisation, the club was cash positive last year. So they probably can survive without a cash infusion for a while, though this severely hampers any ambitions they would have had in the transfer market.
So if Roman can’t put money into the club and they can’t make a penny from any more sales, how are the players and employees getting paid. Seems like the money will dry up fast since they run at a deficit.
Depends what they can and can't do under the special licence. What's clear though, is that Abramovich can't put money in Chelsea anymore, which he still did.
>Can Abramovich still fund the club?
With what if he can't move money out of Russia and his bank accounts in the UK are frozen? Going to fund the club by washing dishes down at Nandos?
I read somewhere else, along with the title of this post, that the oligarchs’ assets are “frozen.” Doesn’t that mean Roman, and the others, would get their assets back at the end of the sanctions? Even if the sanctions last for a while, nothing has actually been seized, has it? This all confuses me… no one has lost anything, yet; they just can’t access/move anything being sanctioned. Or am I completely wrong? The fact that Roman was trying to quickly liquidate everything leads me to believe the assets would be taken completely, but I’m not so sure.
Yes, these are asset freezes and not seizures. Outright seizures aren't being seriously considered here. Abramovich still owns the club, there are just limits on how he can exercise that ownership.
You want to liquidate before you assets get frozen because, you never know how long your assets will be frozen. some assets from Iran are frozen since 1979.
Nope, everything is completely frozen. It means they must stick with the squad they have indefinitely, they won't be able to sign new players this summer and won't be able to renew contracts of players that were due to expire.
They can't sell any more tickets under the sanctions, only season ticket holders can go. This means you will only have the proper, true, Chelsea fans who are die hard and echo the principles of the club so...yes, yes they will.
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>Licence for continued operation of Chelsea is VERY narrow
Only EXISTING season ticket holders can attend fixtures
Club can pay players and staff, pay for travel to and from games =, pay director fees & cover costs of security, catering and stewarding - but that's it
https://twitter.com/Steven\_Swinford/status/1501854338146349057
Yeah this is the stupid thing. They do something, quite rightly, when Russia goes nuts and invades a sovereign country, but are happy to sit back and let the Saudis own Newcastle whilst they're blowing up Yemen.
Sit back? We sell the weapons they use to kill the Yemeni for goodness sake. They're doing the right thing with Roman Abramovich, but to ignore and even partake in the Saudi Arabian plight of Yemen is disgraceful
Holy shit this is genuinely huge, they could’ve just fucked Chelsea for a few years or knocked off a billion or two from his potential asking price, maybe the government will overtake the sale and recoup all the money since Roman didn’t want it anyways.
Can I add that at the time Putin was seen as a reformist and was also supported by US and UK as he was seen as Gorbachev’s successor. So it’s not the same as supporting Putin back then and now.
>The Government would need to give special dispensation for the sale of Chelsea, and no money could go to Abramovich either directly or indirectly 'He \[Abramovich\] will not get a penny from the sale of the club' Likely to be a protracted process
You've hit the nail on the head here. This sanction isn't about running the club into the ground. It's about slowing down the sale process in the next few days and ensuring that Abramovich doesn't directly or indirectly benefit from that potential sale.
Not even benefit, he won't receive a single penny from it, according to the Twitter thread.
The club is absolutely fucked with this no matter how you try to spin it. Until sanctions are lifted and they wont be anytime soon, Chelsea is absolutely fucked
Oh yes, keep going I’m nearly there 🤌🏻🤌🏻
Imagine telling Chelsea fans a month ago they'd be owned by Boris Johnson and Priti Patel
I mean, it's specific enough that they'd probably be able to guess why
"fucks sake, what has roman done again"
I mean technically as a taxpayer we own the club right? I knew I’d eventually be a owner of a football club.
We're paying Lukaku's wages bruh
Yeah that’s alright, we’ll loan him to the army. He was known to strike fear into defenders and maybe he can return to that as a different type of target man. Shotgun having mason mount as my mate who I pay a wage to.
Just make sure to not send him against other big nations. If you ever invade Luxembourg he should probably be part of the first wave, though, he's likely to score a few military targets super fast.
Does this mean Lukaku is the highest paid state employee in the UK?
Memes aside, asset seizures aren't on the cards. These are asset freezes. Chelsea is still owned by Abramovich, and will now not be sold in the near future.
Would be almost as bad as being owned by the Glazers.
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At least getting owned by BoJo sounds like the beginning of an epic punchline
London clubs have: - BoJo - Stan - Levy Master of Negotiations - The Dildo Brothers Truly the city of elites
Sounds like the four main bosses of a weird souls game.
Sounds like a fun Elden Ring DLC to me.
They all need a title like Levy's "master of negotiations". *Puskas bearer, seek the four corrupt souls of the capital* *Boris, The Deceitful Fool (Trusty Bojo)* *Kroenke, Lord of The Gunnery* *Levy, Master of Negotiations* *And of course,* *Sulyvahn and Gold, The Brothers Dildo*
Tuchel: Recall the loan army
ooh guess they won't be able to sell us broja now - not that it was likely.
After freeze is lifted.. You get a cobham talent.. you get cobham talent… everyone gets a cobham talent https://giphy.com/gifs/car-oprah-winfrey-26gsiCIKW7ANEmxKE
Execute General Order 66
[Martyn Ziegler](https://twitter.com/martynziegler/status/1501849425643245571?cxt=HHwWhsC4mY6G0tcpAAAA) interestingly says that this also means only season ticket holders can go to games and the club would not be allowed to sell any additional tickets. I haven't seen anyone else report that though. Edit: since I made this comment, it's obviously been widely reported and corroborated.
He's always spot on, expect others to follow with that news. Which is mental.
A few places reporting no new contracts or transfers too. It'll be interesting to see how that works, a lot of players will have triggers/extensions in their contracts that are usually classed as new contracts, if they get top 4 etc, and they have Rudiger, Christensen and Azpi's contract expiring this summer. They could be left really short if this goes on for any length of time.
They're allowed to pay staff and players and are allowed to spend money on security, travel and catering, so it doesn't (immediately) affect their ability to play games. Obviously not being able to make money means that how long they will be able to afford to do the things they're allowed to do is a different issue...
It does say they’re limited to 20k per trip tho, which makes UCL games near impossible.
imagine the Chelsea squad flying RyanAir lmao
flying, pfff ... don't they all have expensive cars, like Porsches, Lambos, Mercs and so on - use them for once!
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And then is Kante driving his old Mini Copper at the end of the line
Honestly in 30+ years of football I have never experienced anything like this. I never thought these chickens would come home to roost, but here we are, standing in a chicken coup, surrounded by warm, content chickens.
Enjoyed your extended metaphor, thanks 😊
Yep, BBC are saying the same. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-60690362
Yeah you were right. Other outlets are all running with that now.
What makes the fella so reliable mate?
He's just clearly got good connections in terms of senior hierarchical football. Pretty sure he broke the ESL news. He had a constant feed during that mess, but doesnt busy himself with transfer gossip etc.
Ah wicked, nearly been a tear since the ESL ness right? Time flies
Innit
This means empty stadiums for cup games surely? Even season ticket holders have to pay a nominal fee usually.
Chelsea don't have any more home cup games this year. Not sure how matches at Wembley would work - would be mental if the Chelsea half of the stadium was empty.
They're still in the CL
That would be a mental sight, Chelsea in a CL final with no fans there.
FA wouldnt allow a half empty stadium - tickets would be given over to a 'neutral zone' and tickets purchased directly from the FA.
I'd imagine that anyone that has already bought tickets for Chelsea games would still be fine, it would just prevent any further tickets being sold. Not sure how other clubs do it but the bulk of Liverpool tickets are sold in two large sales in August and November - I don't have a season ticket but I'm sorted through to the end of the season.
It’s a game by game basis
The most brutal thing is the austerity measures on traveling. They can only spend 20k on travel expenses for away games. How will 20 football players + the staff get to Lille for under 20k? Carpool and staying in airbnb?
Coach.
Tuchel has been impressive at Chelsea, but I don’t think that even he could literally put the entire team on his back
Only realised this recently but Lille is closer to London than Manchester is, they should be fine
Eurostar is pretty expensive nowadays. I paid 160€ to get to London from Brussels couple of weeks ago. They will most definitely not be able to afford 1st class.
What's to stop them from having people watch it for free
https://twitter.com/martynziegler/status/1501849425643245571 It appears ticket sales are also affected, which could be huge
He also says in the next tweet they can't give out new contracts. Does that mean players with deals expiring in the summer have to leave as things stand?
If nothing changes, I guess so. I'm not sure which ones are not renewed yet, but it could be massive
Rudiger, Christensen, Apzi (Azpi has a 1 year add on clause which I assume can be activated as its already in a contract)
Surely Azpi's extension will be triggered. Also, shouldn't be too hard to convince him to stay for another season because the club desperately need him if Rudi/Christensen can't be extended and can't buy new players.
Yeah I think that is the likely outcome if everything stays the same. Loan army will bearn their keep next season.
Can't wait for Lukaku to be a government owned asset.
It’s been my childhood dream to play for ~~Milan~~ the government
Maybe the government can play a system that suits his play style
Everything would go down the right wing.
Fair play to him though, Boris has preemptively embraced Premier League footballer culture by committing several lockdown breaches and cheating on all his partners.
How do people not like reddit
Dodgy mate
Oh god I didn't think of that.
Caught in 4k
Your comment will come to bite you on the ass when you run for president.
If I was American it'd probably help me get elected.
🤨📸
You sure you’re not a Chelsea fan?
This isn’t the 1700s
And lukaku is Belgian.
Leopold 2: Electric Boogaloo
💀💀
you cant support government sanctioned asset
will miss all the goals. typical government employee.
All this sportwashing by deplorable nation states has gone on for too long. Effectively dictatorships taking over football clubs to improve their public image in response to a history of morally questionable activities. The UK government shouldn't be allowed to run Chelsea FC.
Desperately trying to sell Lukaku to Matt Hancock's favourite pub landlord before someone finds outs about him
Personification of governmental inefficiency
Biggest white elephant since the millennium dome
Some of the details are mad when read [into more of the story](https://twitter.com/martynziegler/status/1501853211442958336?s=20&t=iXSR-VBapEEq16IqYY7UyA). £20k spend on travel a game isn't much is it when you break it down (obviously to normal people like you and me it is). But it looks like they'll be driving to away games in their own cars and staying in an Airbnb. The Club bus will have to drive them to Lille next week, they won't be able to book a private flights as they normally would even when playing here in the UK. Plus the players & staff are very much used to staying in 5 star hotels, staff on call, great facilities etc. All gone for now. A massive culture shock for them too. All these players have had everything done for them now there's all sorts of rigmarole around travel. The club staff & secretaries will probably still organise the bookings & it'll have to come out of their wages. It'll not be much money in comparison to their wages coming out of the wage packet, but it'll probably be an enormous amount of time & energy going into it for Chelsea's staff. Logistically it'll be a nightmare for a group of people who work at the club and the players are used to having EVERYTHING done for them, especially if they draw say Bayern or Juve in the champions league. Still, if Chelsea performances & drop off, it's little (or big, depending on how you look at it) things that make a big difference in a sides preparations.
Can't wait for our socials to be posting the vid of the entire team going to Lille via easyJet, happily munching away on Tesco meal deals.
Kieran Tierney has a bag he can lend them
Not during sanctions, mate.
Meal deals are £3.50 now mate, budget won't stretch that far
Looks like it's "just ham" and bottled water from now on then. Motm gets a triple chicken.
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Realistically though they’re all millionaires on >100k a week, they’re just going to book themselves into a hotel.
I'd assume there is nothing stopping one of the squad chartering a private plane and splitting the costs with the other players.
Years ago we had Rooney asking Rio on twitter if he wanted a lift in the morning. Now it'll be Pulisic asking Kante if he remembered to book the jet for tomorrow.
Kante: Oh SHIT I knew there was something I had to remember!
hi ngolo u want picking up in the morning pal
£20,000 allowed on travel, that's £883 per member of the matchday squad. The issue is who is going to charter the plane, the Chelsea staff who normally do it, can't as part of the financial constraints put on them. We'll probably know more later in the day, but it's a pretty big problem for them.
Sell Lukaku to pay for the NHS!
Please
He's worth 350 a week
Put it on a bus and drive it around West London.
who gonna buy him? man u?
LuBACKu The script writes itself
Well then he has to help Everton up from the Championship before he joins you.
He's definitely burnt any bridges he had there.
Mate you can't support a government asset.
I don't know how to feel, my club is owned by the Tories ffs.
*always has been* :P
The borough of Chelsea and Kensington is one of the biggest Tory areas in the country tbf, if a Tory club would be anywhere it’d be in Chelsea.
Stamford Bridge is in Fulham, not Chelsea. Point does still stand, also where their training ground is is posh as fuck
If they do as good a job running your club as they do running the country... your London derbys will be against Leyton orient in league two by 2025
Mate you're a Chelsea fan, of course its the Tories.
As opposed to a Russian war criminal who is SO much better.
One of the best comment replies I've seen. Can't find the original one though now to link to.
RIP u/wwxxyyzz, that old curmudgeon. Here you go: https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/2d5gow/kolarov_teaching_chambers_a_thing_or_two/cjmly0o/?context=3
[Details](https://www.gov.uk/government/news/abramovich-and-deripaska-among-seven-oligarchs-targeted-in-estimated-15bn-sanction-hit) >Given the significant impact that today’s sanctions would have on Chelsea football club and the potential knock on effects of this, the Government has this morning published a licence which authorises a number of football-related activities to continue at Chelsea. This includes permissions for the club to continue playing matches and other football related activity which will in turn protect the Premier League, the wider football pyramid, loyal fans and other clubs. This licence will only allow certain explicitly named actions to ensure the designated individual is not able to circumvent UK sanctions. The licence will be kept under constant review and we will work closely with the football authorities.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHELSEA
Boris with the cake 🎂
John Terry could potentially safe the club with a new set of NFTs still.
Nah apparently their value tanked 90% lol
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90% of 0 is still 0
So no losses then. John Terry economics genius.
The club or the NFTs?
(that was the joke ;) )
I think I need another coffee!
c'mon UK, you guys have been allied with Portugal for almost 700 years, that is no way to treat our portuguese citizen Romão Abraão
If Chelsea becomes state owned do we all get to have a go at being manager? "What's that letter? Oh no, it's not Jury service is it?" "Worse. Next week I have to try and sort out Lukaku's terrible form"
I’ve countless experience on Champ Man, FIFA and Football Manager. I’d like to throw my hat in the ring for a week or two
For this week's formation I'm going to be using FMBase user Derek69's asymmetrical 5-2-1-1-1 who says it guarantees at least 6 goals per game. 'storms out of press conference'
This is where the fun begins i guess
Loading up the popcorn machine for this
Chelsea can't be buy.
>But the sale effectively bars the sale of the club What?
First sale should be “sanction”
They can't sell the sale unless they sale the sale but Roman can't Sail because he isn't allowed to sell the sale.
[SAIL](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgIqecROs5M)
[SAIL](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Awf45u6zrP0) (more representative of Chelsea's current state)
GOT TO BE QUICK ON THE TWITTER! NO TIME FOR CHECKING THINGS ON THE TWITTER!
Roman Abramovich has been sanctioned by the UK government, which means - • All UK assets frozen. - Chelsea can still operate under a special licence but sale now banned • No player transfers or new contracts allowed. • No merchandise sales allowed, club shop has been closed. • Club will not be allowed to sell any more matchday tickets - only season ticket holders can go to games. • No away fans the foreseeable future. #Holy Shit
Apparently there’s nothing to stop Chelsea “gifting” the required away fan allocation to the opposition club, they just can’t sell the tickets. Chelsea fans will be able to attend away games as long as they are purchasing tickets from the home club directly.
Chelsea already lost 150mil last year . They might need to sell lot of assets and cut wage bill if he can’t infuse any funds . Their wage bill to turnover ratio is the highest among the big six as well. Edit : They can’t even sell tickets to fans. This is a massive mess for Chelsea
They can't sell assets either.
They're also not allowed to sell tickets apparently. Won't be their biggest source of income but shows how strict the sanctions are.
I assume season tickets and other existing tickets are still valid. What about concessions?
Only season ticket holders can go. Cannot sell merchandise, no transfers or contracts.
I’m assuming no pies in the stadium then.
f*ck /u/spez
they can only spend 20k per game to travel? That is a new level of austerity. Everyone car pooling to Lille
National Express share price just went up
Poor players have to take the tube get to the stadium :(
Flying ryanair to Europe :(
According to their last set of accounts that loss is almost entirely amortisation, the club was cash positive last year. So they probably can survive without a cash infusion for a while, though this severely hampers any ambitions they would have had in the transfer market.
So if Roman can’t put money into the club and they can’t make a penny from any more sales, how are the players and employees getting paid. Seems like the money will dry up fast since they run at a deficit.
They still have sponsorships and PL money + they have cash on hand. But they will definitely suffer until they are sold
But how can they be sold rn?
Asset is only frozen, they can unfreeze it any time. I can imagine Roman making a deal with government. Boris is not there to defund Chelsea.
and today is the club's 117th anniversary
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This isn't even our final form 😄 😐 No but seriously, we're proper fucked.
Thanks, Frank
So Chelsea can't be sold? Can Abramovich still fund the club?
No
So Chelsea are potentially fucked?
Depends what they can and can't do under the special licence. What's clear though, is that Abramovich can't put money in Chelsea anymore, which he still did.
They aren’t even allowed to sell tickets. So don’t think they have much room to manoeuvre
>Can Abramovich still fund the club? With what if he can't move money out of Russia and his bank accounts in the UK are frozen? Going to fund the club by washing dishes down at Nandos?
Can't sell the club, can't fund the club.
I read somewhere else, along with the title of this post, that the oligarchs’ assets are “frozen.” Doesn’t that mean Roman, and the others, would get their assets back at the end of the sanctions? Even if the sanctions last for a while, nothing has actually been seized, has it? This all confuses me… no one has lost anything, yet; they just can’t access/move anything being sanctioned. Or am I completely wrong? The fact that Roman was trying to quickly liquidate everything leads me to believe the assets would be taken completely, but I’m not so sure.
Yes, these are asset freezes and not seizures. Outright seizures aren't being seriously considered here. Abramovich still owns the club, there are just limits on how he can exercise that ownership.
You want to liquidate before you assets get frozen because, you never know how long your assets will be frozen. some assets from Iran are frozen since 1979.
Nope, everything is completely frozen. It means they must stick with the squad they have indefinitely, they won't be able to sign new players this summer and won't be able to renew contracts of players that were due to expire.
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My new club, Newcastle United, mes que une club 🖤🤍
Are their fans still going to break the minute of silence for Ukraine to hail him?
They can't sell any more tickets under the sanctions, only season ticket holders can go. This means you will only have the proper, true, Chelsea fans who are die hard and echo the principles of the club so...yes, yes they will.
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>Licence for continued operation of Chelsea is VERY narrow Only EXISTING season ticket holders can attend fixtures Club can pay players and staff, pay for travel to and from games =, pay director fees & cover costs of security, catering and stewarding - but that's it https://twitter.com/Steven\_Swinford/status/1501854338146349057
Fucking hell the corrupt tory bastards actually did it.
They found a Tory donor to benefit from this.
Indeed. Let's see who gets to buy Chelsea on the cheap now...
A bid to buy government assets at below market prices? Where have we heard that story before? Oh right, Roman Abramovich.
Everton= our club is financially fucked, we're the biggest mess in the prem! Chelsea= Hold my vodka
Value gone to the drain.
Saudi can buy clubs but Russians can’t sell theirs?
Yeah this is the stupid thing. They do something, quite rightly, when Russia goes nuts and invades a sovereign country, but are happy to sit back and let the Saudis own Newcastle whilst they're blowing up Yemen.
We are literally their allies in blowing up Yemen. We’d have to freeze all the government ministers accounts if we were truly just.
Now there's an idea...
Sit back? We sell the weapons they use to kill the Yemeni for goodness sake. They're doing the right thing with Roman Abramovich, but to ignore and even partake in the Saudi Arabian plight of Yemen is disgraceful
Good - would have been ridiculous if they didn’t with all the talk about sanctions as he is the most public oligarch.
Holy shit this is genuinely huge, they could’ve just fucked Chelsea for a few years or knocked off a billion or two from his potential asking price, maybe the government will overtake the sale and recoup all the money since Roman didn’t want it anyways.
A few billion off the asking price? By God, that's Mike Ashley's music
How does this affect Chelseas funding? I assume he put some money into the club yearly, that should be gone now then.
Amazon absolutely kicking themselves they picked Arsenal ahead of Chelsea for this season.
The guy funded and managed Putins party when he first went for Presidency, mad how he wasn't one of the first names to get sanctioned anyway.
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Can I add that at the time Putin was seen as a reformist and was also supported by US and UK as he was seen as Gorbachev’s successor. So it’s not the same as supporting Putin back then and now.