Roman Abramovich Thread

[Superblue 6,372]

4 minutes ago, MoroccanBlue said:

Think they aren't counting CS. 

 

Don't let Jose know they're doing that!

[Vesper 30,079]

30 minutes ago, MoroccanBlue said:

Think they aren't counting CS. 

 

they listed it, and it IS a legit trophy, no remotely major (and likely none, period) league or club on the planet doen't count domestic super cups as trophies. Barca, Real, Juve, Bayern, PSG, Inter, AC Milan, AM, Dortmund, etc etc ALL certainly do.

The CS is one of the hardest trophies to win, as just to qualify you have to either win the league (by far the hardest domestic league on the planet) or win the FA Cup, the hardest domestic cup to win

THEN after all that, you have to (normally, and especially if you did not win the EPL) beat one of the best teams on the planets to win it

only people who downplay it are Manure and Pool fanbois, and then only when it comes to us, which is so stupid as we are HORRIFIC in it, (2 wins, 7 losses under Roman) but they hate adding the 2 more (and again, they are legit, they MUST be added) trophies to our totals

Edited March 3, 2022 by Vesper

[Blues Forever 1,232]

 

Edited March 3, 2022 by Blues Forever

[Vesper 30,079]

1 minute ago, Blues Forever said:

 

I do NOT like consortium owners

fuck

[Vesper 30,079]

29 minutes ago, Superblue_1986 said:

Don't let Jose know they're doing that!

Mou was right

[Pizy 18,846]

Holding off opinions until we hear form this new consortium. The first thing they need to do after taking over is assure supporters that they intend to keep the team competitive at the very highest level. Which means committing to spending money on top class players.

[Blues Forever 1,232]

1 minute ago, Vesper said:

I do NOT like consortium owners

fuck

Well then better pray for some Arabs sheikh to outbid them.

[Vesper 30,079]

"No substance" to reports of Ratcliffe bidding for Chelsea, says spokesman

https://www.reuters.com/business/no-substance-reports-ratcliffe-bidding-Chelsea-says-spokesman-2022-03-03/

 

fuck

[Vesper 30,079]

1 minute ago, Blues Forever said:

Well then better pray for some Arabs sheikh to outbid them.

or one of dozens of tech billionaires worth more than Roman

[ZAPHOD2319 4,798]

I think Todd being in a group will be good. He loves buying top players and will spend his own money.

 

 

[Magic Lamps 11,692]

don't know anything about the swiss geezer but his biblical age and relatively modest wealth are huge turn-offs. Let's hope RA sees straight through this. But ig uess he just wants out at some point.

Also about the value disucssion. There is hardly  a liquid secondary market for football clubs,so you can't say now way we are worth more than Manutd. The price is whatever RA demands and if he wants 3bn to set off the loans or also make donations to Ukraine, it is his prerogative.

[OhForAGreavsie 6,057]

53 minutes ago, Superblue_1986 said:

Maybe it's cynical or maybe I'm completely wide of the mark with my assessment above, but a part of me does wonder whether Roman's asking price is a means to show willingness to sell but knows he is almost certainly not going to get offered that sort of money, and just buys a bit of time for now.

It's good take and I hope that you're right.

I may be dumb and criminally under informed but I don't see why Roman is such a pariah other than that people don't like Chelsea and he's a Russian they've actually heard of. Yes he was allowed to buy state assets at a price which amounted to theft but the guilty one for me is the one who sold the assets. If it can be shown that Roman has been delivering kick-backs, monetary or otherwise, in return for benefitting from the giveaway then he would be corrupt and I would turn against him. I've heard such kick-backs alleged however I've never seen the claims substantiated.

[Blues Forever 1,232]

Their consortium giving me a bad vibes, seems like bunch of money hungry businessmans.

[ZAPHOD2319 4,798]

3 minutes ago, Magic Lamps said:

don't know anything about the swiss geezer but his biblical age and relatively modest wealth are huge turn-offs. Let's hope RA sees straight through this. But ig uess he just wants out at some point.

Also about the value disucssion. There is hardly  a liquid secondary market for football clubs,so you can't say now way we are worth more than Manutd. The price is whatever RA demands and if he wants 3bn to set off the loans or also make donations to Ukraine, it is his prerogative.

Wyss is not the big player in the group, he just went to Todd Boehly because Todd already offered 3B a couple of years ago to Roman and it was turned down.

[Vesper 30,079]

surely some rich as shit (20 billion or more net worth) person sees this as huge bargain buy

Roman is NOT demanding payment back of the £1.5 billion in loans (per his official statement, which is fairly binding)

the only truly global European clubs are the big 15

Real

Barca

AM

PSG

Bayern

Dortmund

Juve

AC Milan

Inter Milan

Chelsea

Manure

Pool

Citeh

Arsenal

Spuds

 

 

[OhForAGreavsie 6,057]

5 minutes ago, Magic Lamps said:

don't know anything about the swiss geezer but his biblical age and relatively modest wealth are huge turn-offs.

And his lack of interest in football.

We've had an owner with a football fan's dream approach to running the club. Whatever we get now must be less and is going to feel awful. We've lived with less before however so, even if it might feel like the end of the world, it really won't be.

[ZAPHOD2319 4,798]

If you want to get an idea of who Todd Boehly is and how he might operate, he is pretty open about why he buys sports teams in this interview.

 

 

[OhForAGreavsie 6,057]

18 minutes ago, Pizy said:

Holding off opinions until we hear form this new consortium. The first thing they need to do after taking over is assure supporters that they intend to keep the team competitive at the very highest level. Which means committing to spending money on top class players.

Ditto the women's team Deal breaker for me.