Roman Abramovich Thread

[OhForAGreavsie 5,898]

3 hours ago, ChelseaFanUK said:

If i woke up to the news Ratcliffe had took over, id not be shocked.  Timing of everything seems real convenient.   Hasnt he also met the CST already since Friday?

 

I still think it'll be Boehly, but the timing of Ratcliffe's bid, the bypassing of Raine, which would indicate a deal directly between him and Roman/the club; and the talks with buck and Uk govt already, [plus the fact he would pass due dilligence with the govt almost immediately] id suspect on paper, Roman prefers his offer.  And even though i still think Todd's group get it as said, I don't think it's quite cut and dried. 

Talk that he cannot progress his bid until Boehly's exclusivity expires makes no sense because 1. There is no exclusivity yet, I'm sure Matt Law would have reported that, seeing as he is in bed with one of Boehly's team, and 2. Roman CAN still reject the offer, this exclusivity period does not mean you absolutely have got the club signed, sealed and delivered

Thats just me speculating, though

A very interesting speculation though and with an air of plausibility.

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Edited May 4, 2022 by Blues Forever

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Takeover thrown into doubt as Abramovich makes demand

The sanctioned Russian owner is looking for debt linked to the club's parent company to be paid to a Jersey-based firm, according to reports, just four days after Todd Boehly's consortium began exclusive takeover talks

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/Chelsea-sale-roman-abramovich-debt-26862005

 

Roman Abramovich is considering a U-turn on his vow to write off Chelsea's £1.6bn debt as part of the club's sale, according to a report from The Times, despite the takeover appearing to be nearing a conclusion.

Club officials last week told the government that they they want to restructure the way the club is being sold, the report said, with a demand that the debt linked to parent company Fordstam is paid off to a Jersey-based company called Camberley International Investments.

Fordstam's latest accounts say that "Camberley International Investments Ltd provides funding to Fordstam Ltd and its subsidiaries as required to enable the Group to continue as a going concern." But it is unclear who has ultimate ownership of Camberley International Investments Ltd, a company established in August 2020.

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[cosmicway 1,333]

The charity money should go to the U.N. with the instruction to spend it to help the victims of the war in Ukraine.

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Edited May 4, 2022 by Blues Forever

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[Norfolkblue1961 54]

This drawn-out saga is starting to do my head in. I hope when it is all over, and we finally have new owners confirmed, that the said owners ban all the putrid hacks from rags like the Daily Mail, Guardian and Daily Star from the Press box . They have done nothing but stick the boot in and plaster unfounded scare stories over their back pages, as if they are in the know....which they clearly arent

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Todd Boehly’s bid have been incredibly impressed with Thomas Tuchel, they will look to talk to him quickly and tell him their vision, it’s been a sticky patch of results but Tuchel has become Chelsea’s ambassador through all this and they’ve been hugely impressed. (Matt Law) 

[Fulham Broadway 16,924]

UK government sanctions make it clear that Abramovich is effectively President Putin’s man. If you believe that, then, in essence, Chelsea is a Russian state asset.  Vladimir Putin, currently talking up the threat of nuclear war, is he really going to allow £2.5billion of Russian assets vanish into the hands of the UK Government to distribute as they see fit, with much of it ending up supporting Ukraine?

Niet

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8 minutes ago, Norfolkblue1961 said:

This drawn-out saga is starting to do my head in. I hope when it is all over, and we finally have new owners confirmed, that the said owners ban all the putrid hacks from rags like the Daily Mail, Guardian and Daily Star from the Press box . They have done nothing but stick the boot in and plaster unfounded scare stories over their back pages, as if they are in the know....which they clearly arent

As much as it feels like it, the whole situation is actually moving at a rapid speed considering the figures involved.

If it was just left to develop and you had a handful of people 'in the know' reporting on developments there would be no problems.

Instead we have 90% of journalists either (a) using Roman's sanctions as a means of showing their true feelings about Chelsea, or (b) finding the worst case scenarios and creating a doomsday portrayal of the situation.

Given the platform they are on and the audience size, one of the worst has to be Sky Sports. It's bad enough that if we want to watch a Premier League football match on their channel, we have to suffer through what is best described as a Liverpool lovefest. But you then have that Kaveh bloke fuelling all sorts of speculation for clickbait on their platforms. He's not a journalist, he literally spends half of the day on Twitter looking for football stories and transfer gossip (spoiler alert - we've worked out his trusted "source").

I remember years back Sky Sports used to be top tier for transfer news because they didn't lend themselves to speculation. In fact I can remember how gutted I was when they reported that Dani Alves was joining Chelsea from Sevilla only for it then to not materialise. In recent years they've effectively prostituted themselves out to the mass hysteria regarding transfer talk, culminating in them treating transfer deadline day like a religious festival. 

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6 minutes ago, Fulham Broadway said:

UK government sanctions make it clear that Abramovich is effectively President Putin’s man. If you believe that, then, in essence, Chelsea is a Russian state asset.  Vladimir Putin, currently talking up the threat of nuclear war, is he really going to allow £2.5billion of Russian assets vanish into the hands of the UK Government to distribute as they see fit, with much of it ending up supporting Ukraine?

Niet

Well, the UN then.

[ChelseaFanUK 1,014]

I fail to understand why Ben Jacobs keeps forgetting the fact that Roman can reject Raine's choices, so to say Ratcliffe simply cant enter now due to Raine's process, is wrong.

 

Exclusivity still has not been signed since Friday when we are led to believe Boehly got preferred bidder... and even then, it does not mean its game over. 

 

Ratcliffe coming in has certainly caused a stir, and i think hed be Roman's choice.