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[F l i c k e r]

F.uck me that was a long post lmfao.

In other news,

Roman handed stewardship of the club to the Chelsea charity foundation.

What does that mean in the UK law? They can't seize the club?

[Sparked_26]

F.uck me that was a long post lmfao.

In other news,

Roman handed stewardship of the club to the Chelsea charity foundation.

What does that mean in the UK law? They can't seize the club?

No idea really. Frodstram (Roman) still own the club.

Always worth remembering though that Chelsea fans essentially own the freehold to stamford bridge as well as the title Chelsea Fc should opposition fans ever feel inclined to happy wank themselves to death should Chelsea be seized. I mean we could start again as a fan run team with just a dream.......and several billion pounds worth of London real estate to make it happen, lol.

Not that it will ever get that far but still.

Maybe just a bit of a face saving appeal for the uk govt. I mean one of the Chelsea trustees is a former Tory sports minister ffs.

I Iove Chelsea and appreciate Roman for what he has done for my football club- it has been unreal. But in the grand scheme of things I care so much about footy because I know deep down it doesnt matter - nobody dies, at least not usually. So when sh.it ultimately hits the fan I will take a step back.

I'd support Chelsea if they were playing in any league. So there is no existential threat to that part of my life and tbh I have zero doubt they could literally be expelled from the league and still win a trophy before Tottenham.

But look..

Maybe Roman had a pretty hard life up until the point he liberated ill-educated locals from their previously state owned oil shares for buttons. Additionally by all accounts he was been a good governor in Russia, and has been a powerful ***ish voice in Russia and within footy campaigning against anti-semitism.

But

he's not gonna be a benign presence. We cant know how much influence he has over ***** or vice versa. But Roman isn't an apolitical creature. He literally lived in the Kremlin. He was a favorite of Yeltsin and is meant to have recommended ***** for potential leader.

He's known for being silent in the UK. But that simply isnt the case or it cant be in real life.

Politically he has distanced himself from the Kremlin in recent years but you just have to look at some of the enormous court cases he has won.

The man always wins. Like always.

He is not rich man powerful, he is politically powerful. A man simply known as Mr A in the Kremlin.

He has won libel cases in the past about his relationship with *****.

But let's face it. It is likely they are actually friends.

[Roy Jones Jnr]

Always had the Carrier Bag Cup as one notch below the World Cup in terms of prestige.

The top 5 most important trophies in football are as follows :

1. World Cup
2. Carrier Bag Cup
3. Champions Leage
4. Premier League
5. Standard Chartered Cup

[F l i c k e r]

Roman must have a gift of gab or just naturally likeable or something. Because despite not showing much anything and appearing as shy as Kante, the man is what? the only oligarch to not get the axe by *****? At least one of the few to not get stripped bare and imprisoned/ killed.

And he talks little to none. Probably goes a long way though. Say little, can't be misunderstood.

Also.....

Kepa.

It was so egregious, I couldn't even feel anger. How do you rugby toe punt that? Like that?

[Sparked_26]

I mean a bit unlucky Chelsea really.

It is a shame City exist really because there is nothing between Chelsea and Liverpool. We have a better defence and midfield and they have a much much better attack.

They match up really well.

Chelsea's best games have been vs Liverpool this season and really nobody has won. I mean Chelsea might have won there but they got 683 goals ruled out

My issue with Chelsea is Havertz is good enough from the forwards.

The rest of the arent good enough. Even Mason needs to step back into midfield and the likelihood is Conor might be a better player than him

[F l i c k e r]

Mason isn't a proper midfielder. His spatial awareness is pretty bad and by that, I don't mean his own location in space but the players around him in space. He has little feel for where they area.

Unlike say RLC (pre injury) where he was able to combine in tight spaces, provide outlets, etc. Mason generally..... doesn't do any of that.

That's why Mason is better further up the pitch. Playing 10 or around those areas. Deep in midfield? He just isn't aware of anything besides himself. That's just my opinion though. Plenty of people think he is some sort of 8 and then move the posts when Mason looked complete s.hit as an 8 with Lampard and said he was a 6, then he contributed to that absolute disaster class performance under Lampard playing as a 6 with Kante and Kovacic.

Dude isn't a center mid. He's an attacking mid and there's a big enough sample size to prove it.

[StarshipTrooper]

Chelsea up for sale. Would LOVE to see Britain and the rest of the EUFA nations get sovereign wealth out of the game. Probably won't happen, though.

[Sparked_26]

Whilst I'm relieved he has taken this step now because the anti Russian sentiment makes.his position untenable but.

Roman was the greatest owner in the history of the game.

The gnashing of teeth and virtue signalling from rival fans is just h.appy wa.nking over the recognition that obviously Chelsea wont be as good. We will have yank owners because surely we will he the first team to have a fit and proper persons test for a new buyer.

So it will be a boring yank corporate consortium who will run Chelsea on an even keel and possibly put Chelsea on the stock market and pay themselves dividends and take out humongous loans against guaranteed ticket and television money.

The universal condemnation is pretty embarrassing really. Chelsea are just a football club, Roman Abramovich is just a man albeit admittedly he had political influence.

Make no mistake the Saudi's at Newcastle and the UAE folks at City are not nice people. RA probably is alright, he was a successful and popular governor in Russia. Both of those teams are sports washed. City are lovable minnows who were in division 2. Newcastle are a massive club apparently and a sleeping giant. They're not like. They're a s.hit club and apart from a brief period in the 90's have always been s.hit.

Revisionist history will say Chelsea were a bad side but they were a champions league team before Roman. They were a better side than Liverpool.

What Roman did was turn the thing on its head with his investment and break up the duopoly of Man U and Arsenal which was never gonna broken up by the way without that.

It is Roman's investment that led to other rivals getting similar owners and investment. It has grown the pl as one of if not the premier sporting competition in the world.

Anyway f.uck everyone. I hope they have all enjoyed getting di.cked for two decades.

[BodiesInFlight]

So basically, Roman Abramovic was the saviour of English football and an all round great guy. It's those other oligarchs that are the real evil ones.

lol

[F l i c k e r]

Not by any means. Roman was very shady but thing is, can't prove he actually did anything. He's one of the few you point at and know there is skeletons in that closet but you don't really know what, who, or when. You just make assumptions because he is a Russian oligarch with ties to ***** but not before he actually got rich.

Chelsea being up for sale is the start of a new era and likely one without as much dedication to winning. I believe.

I just don't imagine any other potential owners having a pure dedication to winning at all costs like Roman did.

It's a bit bitter-sweet though.

On one hand, you have the potential to finally get an owner who creates a proper team structure (let's be honest, Jose made that 2004-2012 team structure. Roman would have bought pop stars instead of Drogba et al.)

But on the other hand, the next owner will 100% NOT be as dedicated to winning. They WONT be a fan of the club.

Roman was a fan of football and a fan of his own club. Bought the club because of Zola (and king's road location, lets be honest) and was going to buy Udinese if Zola made the transfer out.

You won't find that in any new owner. Not the Mancs, not Spurs, not Liverpool etc. etc. Those owners just see profits and operate as such. Though those owners also are more hands off than Roman but the passion isn't there in those people.

With that said however,

I wonder if that British guy is going to come back into the picture.

I forget his name but he was a billionaire or something right?

I would prefer not to have an American owner. I am American but look at Liverpool (MLB Redsocks owner), Arsenal (NFL Rams, NBA Nuggets owner et al), and Manchester United (NFL buccaneers). They are ran like an American sporting team, all about sales not really football wins. Like they are an NFL or NBA team. I'd prefer not to see Chelsea ran like that.

But the alternative is surely worse. A Chinese consortium like the Milans, who got bankrupt and the club goes to creditors. Or Arab families.

I know those Newcastle Sheikhs are punching the air right now