Roman Abramovich Thread

[zolayes 14,489]

seems the contribution of the man ALL Chelsea fans should respect is rarely mentioned Mathew Harding ..R.I.P

[Sheva. 5,373]

Desailly

[termninja 5,290]

Marcel, you're the man

[Styles 9,790]

seems the contribution of the man ALL Chelsea fans should respect is rarely mentioned Mathew Harding ..R.I.P

I think Matthew Harding is very appreciated by the club and its fans.

[Term-X 7,891]

"He is not obsessed with the Champions League. He is calm. The people around him are nervous"

Interesting.

I conjure up images of an agitated gourlay and buck running around like headless chickens.

[eldo 868]

Interesting.

I conjure up images of an agitated gourlay and buck running around like headless chickens.

Lmao. They are headless chickens.

[eldo 868]

His 3-years contract just proove that,

There is no point in giving them more. 2 years and option to exted is perfect.

[zolayes 14,489]

Interesting.

I conjure up images of an agitated gourlay and buck running around like headless chickens.

gourlay and buck doing SWP impersonations should be on you tube or Britains got talent

[Milan 17,955]

Buck offers Abramovich insight

skysports.com

Chelsea chairman Bruce Buck has described Roman Abramovich as a private person who has great passion for football and tremendous knowledge of the game.

Russian billionaire Abramovich became Chelsea owner in 2003 and it is his financial backing that has helped establish the club as one of the most powerful in the world.

He does not attend games as often these days since the birth of his sixth child in 2009, but Buck maintains that his hunger for the game remains as strong as ever.

"I would say that his passion for Chelsea has increased not decreased. His passion for football has increased, not decreased," Buck said in an interview for upcoming book There's a Golden Sky, extracts of which have been published in the Daily Telegraph.

"His knowlege of football has increased exponentially. I'm not talking about what goes at the megastore, I'm talking about football. It would be pretty hard to name a current footballer that he couldn't give you statistics for.

"He doesn't miss a game in the sense that wherever he is in the world he watches the Chelsea game. He calls Eugene Tenenbaum [trusted club director and associate] or whoever after the game and they talk about it. He is very much on top of things."

Buck is one of Abramovich's closest allies and recalls the moment the Russian first considered buying a club, hiring investment bank UBS Warburg to write a feasibility study, which listed a number of possible options.

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"It said that Manchester United would be expensive and the fans would go crazy. Aston Villa was for sale but was in Birmingham and the long-term opportunities were limited," he explained.

"Tottenham was on the list along with Chelsea. They were in London; they were in financial trouble. Roman's advisers tried to arrange meetings with Tottenham and Chelsea but for whatever reason, they couldn't set up a meeting with Tottenham, or Tottenham didn't want to meet."

Buck admits that Abramovich had not expected to be at the centre of so much media scrutiny when he first became involved in English football.

He said: "We thought, 'Yeah, it will be a decent story for a couple of weeks and then Roman will go back and have his private life.' Because he is a very private guy. He clearly didn't do things for the notoriety or publicity because that is not him."

Chelsea have been usurped in the big-spending stakes over the past few years by Manchester City and their

owner Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al Nahyan, but Buck has no problem with that.

"That's why we aren't complaining about some of the things City are doing," he said. "We started it after all but, having said that, it is a free world.

"Obviously what we have done has not pleased the fans of West Ham or Manchester United, but they sure have pleased the fans at Chelsea."

Quite interesting quotes about the situation that led to the sale. And I really like those last sentences - it is good we accept that fact we behaved similarly.

[Ollie 4,400]

Reading that and the Desailly piece, i feel a lot better about the future of our club and more positive. I also get the feeling Andre will be here for the long haul, i mean he woulda known Roman when he was here with Jose so he wouldn't come back if he knew he'd be treated like a cunt. Andre really does seem to have things under his control too. I'm very happy with our current situation and i do trust our Russian to get it right eventually to how he wants it. Our last few managers obviously just werent for him so i suppose it's best to get rid if he's not happy. I believe AVB is the man.

[Fulham Broadway 17,299]

Buck offers Abramovich insight

skysports.com

Seems to say more about Buck than Abramovich.

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Only hypocrites will cry out against City, Malaga, PSG, Anzi and whatever new teams in the world wants to do the same like Chelsea!

club.

Not that I am complaining but the different between Chelsea and those wannabe teams is that we were a Champions League team even before Roman bought us while these wannabe Chelsea teams have been in the bottom pile