Roman Abramovich Thread

[Pizy 18,515]

It’s not like we have a sex predator or a club-wide scandal that would damage the reputation of the shirt sponsor by mere association. There’s no right minded person in the world who sees the Hyundai logo on a Chelsea players’ sleeve and thinks “I’m not buying a Hyundai because they support Chelsea!”

It’s just performative bullshit.

[Clockwork 1,794]

Man Hyundai and Three are not happy that Chelsea are no longer owned by Russian oligarch.

[Laylabelle 9,405]

1 hour ago, xPetrCechx said:

 

But still no offical statement as yet...but guess as nothing said either way maybe they're waiting to see how things unfold.

Edited March 12, 2022 by Laylabelle

[milka 3,362]

 

[MoroccanBlue 5,320]

So sketchy

[Vesper 29,189]

10 hours ago, MoroccanBlue said:

What successful consortiums have there been?

Real, Barca, Bayern, Pool (FSG is a consortium) for starters, there is no single human owner for any of the 4

also, a shedload of yank teams (baseball, football, basketball, hockey, especially baseball) have consortium ownership

The Boston Red Sox (FSG which Stands for Fenway Sports Group, Fenway being their legendary old old stadium), the New York Yankees ( Yankee Global Enterprises, an LLC), and the the LA Dodgers (Boehly is part of that consortium) are great examples of very successful teams who have no single human owner

Edited March 13, 2022 by Vesper

[OhForAGreavsie 5,903]

12 hours ago, Strike said:

 

Boehly has taken a public position against the Super League

There was an interview with this bloke linked earlier in this thread and another 30-minute one linked from that. In both of those, plus the two snippets linked here, I find Boehly to be impressive. That said I don't interpret what he says about the super League to mean that he is against it. My take is that he is against trying to do anything without taking the fans, the customers, along with you. These comments therefore would not rule out his being part of attempts to sell a repackaged version of the super League to European football fans at some point in the future.

If the bid by his consortium moves forward then we can expect media outlets to follow up on his ideas about the super League and other matters. It will be interesting to read more about his thinking.

Edited March 13, 2022 by OhForAGreavsie

[Vesper 29,189]

10 hours ago, milka said:

bought Chelsea for £140m spent billions sold for free and left us as the kings of the world debt free. Proper Chels.

that is way harsh for us pre August 2003

we already had 3 European trophies (Arse still only has 2 total after 137 years of footie)

and 12 overall

6 of those were from May 1997 through August 2000: 2 FA Cups, a CS, a League Cup, a UEFA Cup Winners Cup, and a UEFA Super Cup (beating Real Madrid, a team we have NEVER lost any game to, in August 1998)

Edited March 13, 2022 by Vesper

[Vesper 29,189]

7 hours ago, xPetrCechx said:

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fuck Hyundai 

fuck Tre

[Vesper 29,189]

9 hours ago, OhForAGreavsie said:

Emma Hayes won pundit of the year a week/ten days ago.

she is by far the best female footie pundit out there, brilliant, I am sure she could manage a topflight men's team

would take her over some re-tread dregs like Alan Pardew (5 wins in his last 40 topflight games, 10 in his last 65) any day

[Vesper 29,189]

Delia Smith slams Chelsea and admits she loved Norwich fans' "dirty" chant

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Chelsea fans sung Roman Abramovich's name at Carrow Road despite the Russian Oligarch being sanctioned by the UK government in the wake of Ukraine's invasion

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/Chelsea-roman-abramovich-delia-smith-26449669

[Laylabelle 9,405]

7 hours ago, Vesper said:

Delia Smith slams Chelsea and admits she loved Norwich fans' "dirty" chant

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Chelsea fans sung Roman Abramovich's name at Carrow Road despite the Russian Oligarch being sanctioned by the UK government in the wake of Ukraine's invasion

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/Chelsea-roman-abramovich-delia-smith-26449669

Tbf she's not the only one to come out and say it..Tuchel has come and addressed it but that's because fans chanted his name during a clap for Ukraine which was dumb dumb 

[milka 3,362]

10 hours ago, Vesper said:

that is way harsh for us pre August 2003

we already had 3 European trophies (Arse still only has 2 total after 137 years of footie)

and 12 overall

6 of those were from May 1997 through August 2000: 2 FA Cups, a CS, a League Cup, a UEFA Cup Winners Cup, and a UEFA Super Cup (beating Real Madrid, a team we have NEVER lost any game to, in August 1998)

I guess they were referring mainly  Premier League and CL not  domestic cups like  FA and Carling . 

[Superblue 6,372]

2 hours ago, Laylabelle said:

Tbf she's not the only one to come out and say it..Tuchel has come and addressed it but that's because fans chanted his name during a clap for Ukraine which was dumb dumb 

Today is going to be infinitely worse. The last couple of games have been away, this is a home game being shown on Sky Sports.

I think the Roman Abramovich chant goes beyond support and appreciation of Roman, it's almost now in an act of defiance against everyone who seems to be attacking the club right now because it's so provocative at present.

For me personally, I would prefer it not being chanted at present and we just focus on supporting the team. There will be a better time and place in the future to show appreciation to Roman. But things could start to turn a bit more toxic today I feel as frustrations could start to boil over regarding the treatment of the club.

It's ironic though the number of journalists that are criticising and degrading the club - they have a right not to watch if they're as disgusted as they're writing would suggest but they will all be watching today's game, many likely will even be at the game.

Sky Sports will know what is in store too and they'll be secretly loving it. They could easily have decided this week to switch to a different 2pm game today to air but this is the one they want because it's highly controversial (with Newcastle being the visitors an extra backdrop to the story with their new ownership). We'll no doubt all have to put up with the likes of Jamie Carragher (stand up guy spitting at a kid because he was getting wound up) and what appears a more increasingly politically driven Gary Neville who's always happy to flap his gums, give their 2 cents for what it's worth (completely worthless in my opinion).

From a media perspective we'll get massacred today. We can just hope the boys are motivated for getting 3 points and moving us closer to a guaranteed top 4 position.

[cosmicway 1,333]

The other important European club with Russian ownership is Monaco.
Is there anything going on in France ?

Edited March 13, 2022 by cosmicway

[Superblue 6,372]

Just now, cosmicway said:

Is there anything going on in France ?

Yes they're limiting energy price increases to 4%, whilst Brexit Britain deals with a 54% rise.

[Blues Forever 1,232]

 

[cosmicway 1,333]

11 hours ago, OhForAGreavsie said:

There was an interview with this bloke linked earlier in this thread and another 30-minute one linked from that. In both of those, plus the two snippets linked here, I find Boehly to be impressive. That said I don't interpret what he says about the super League to mean that he is against it. My take is that he is against trying to do anything without taking the fans, the customers, along with you. These comments therefore would not rule out his being part of attempts to sell a repackaged version of the super League to European football fans at some point in the future.

If the bid by his consortium moves forward then we can expect media outlets to follow up on his ideas about the super League and other matters. It will be interesting to read more about his thinking.

The superleague is nonsense but it makes sense to somewhat limit the size of domestic leagues in favour of more European football.
For example 16 teams in the English premier instead of the present 20.