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Chelsea FC face new questions over how Roman Abramovich funded success | Roman Abramovich
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It was nice while it lasted.
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NOW they ask questions.... not in 2004 but 2023 when the twat is gone... fucking media man asking the right questions at the wrong time just a casual 20 years too late...
We're acting like these things are new now? The entire system is rotten to the core, not just the club funding but the entire organisations running the sport
I don’t care he’s not the owner anymore. Now let’s talk about Man City.
with cash from honest and hard work
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Now we know why they signed all those players to 8 year deals. Welcome to the championship lads!
Chelsea’s success will always have an asterix next to it - if they were owned by Arabs, of course.
The extent of Chelsea's cheating and cities cheating are barely even comparable. It's like one slapped a grandma and the other committed a genocide.
Both clubs cheated, and have caused the PL to become worse as a result
We all knew their success was bullshit, let's hope this is the nail in the coffin that confirms it.
Arsenal fans had Usmanov owning their club for a long time and begged him to own it fully at times too so it’s always funny when they cry about Abramovich.
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Time to post another pathetic megathread on your sub.
They can financially dope all they wish, but the players still have to perform, the manager still has to do a job. Money doesn’t buy competence or success.
You could say the same for chemical doping...
It clearly does. Believing that the wealthiest clubs aren't consistently they most successful is denying reality.
Take away those titles!
I’m not sure if anything substantial will wind up happening mostly because Clearlake have been upfront with the Premier League and self reported potential infractions.
BUT if this leads to significant punishment down the line, it will taint Abramovich’s legacy as owner. He will no longer be known as strictly the serial winner who took us to a household name. It’s not my place to adjudicate nor am I naive enough to think his image was totally clean before all of this. It’s just something to ponder. Potential punishment on top of the two transfer bans we were handed? It skews the measurements.
Everyone already knew he was a criminal and operated the club in a shady manner. Only deluded Chelsea fans think it was done legally in any way. Not a diss but this literally doesn’t change anything, and I don’t think most Chelsea fans would care anyway, they’ve got their titles
Should be a stripping of titles as it was previous owners and perhaps a financial restriction to punish the gains down the line from the cheating.
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Chelsea FC face fresh questions over how its former owner Roman Abramovich funded the club’s success, after leaked files revealed a string of secret payments that may have breached strict football rules, including those on “financial fair play”.
Experts said the transactions, uncovered through a joint investigation by the Guardian and international partners, could lead to the Premier League imposing punishments on Chelsea, such as a deduction of points.
The files reveal a series of payments worth tens of millions of pounds over a decade, routed through offshore vehicles belonging to Abramovich. The transactions in question appear to have been for Chelsea’s benefit, raising questions about whether they were declared in accounts submitted to football’s governing bodies.
You do have to question this entire piece of journalism considering it’s not telling us anything new or groundbreaking. We already know as fact that Clearlake have reported secret payments that were made under previous ownership to the Premier League months ago when going through the club’s finances. I don’t suppose Bruce Buck or Marina are around to face questioning?
I swear it’s like a new publication gets to write this exact story every couple of weeks (coincidentally the last one came during the last international break aka slow news cycle).
Next they’re going to tell us we paid Andreas Christensen’s dad as a scout or that we paid Bertrand Traore’s mum - both of which we’ve already served two transfer bans for btw.
Do you not think that maybe that is why Clearlake reported what they did. To muddy the water like this. They report the least damning thing they can find and lump every other accusation in as what they’ve already reported.
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Looks like relegation fight is back on the menu, boys
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City and Chelsea duking it out for the one direct promotion spot in the national league next season.
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Don't worry guys, I'm sure the FA, the Premier League, UEFA and FIFA, bastions of sporting integrity, will come together to tackle the corruption of the likes of Chelsea and City any day now.
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People always like to point out that City ruined football, but the FA and the other authorities just letting Roman financially dope his way through success was rhe bigger alarm.
None of it matters now. They've reaped the benefits and any points deduction doesnt make a difference.
People always like to point out that City ruined football, but the FA and the other authorities just letting Roman financially dope his way through success was rhe bigger alarm.
Every single big club become success due to financial doping. ManU, Liverpool, Arsenal.
There are no exceptions.
It's the history of English football. So why would they fight against tradition.
Chelsea walked financial doping so City could run with it.
I’m sure I read somewhere that relative to transfer fees at the time Chelsea were bankrolled more than City.
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Which is why they should be forced to start over. Relegate them to the bottom of the pyramid and remove the titles won.
That is the only fitting punishment for them and city. Just complete death penalty. But they’ll never do, there is zero incentive. The fact is as long as the premier league continues to grow in popularity, people keep going to games and keep watching on tv that is consent for all of this. The message everyone is sending to the premier league is that we love cheating, we are all in favour of the league being uncompetitive and bought by city every single year. Because we keep watching it.
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The FA and UEFA: Oh No! Anyway...
Throw city and Chelsea in a league with Newcastle and PSG. That can be the true super league.
Add Salzburg, Girona, Leipzig, Leverkusen, Wolfsburg... there are more offenders who will gladly join this project and bring as many fans and morals as the ones above.
Leverkusen and Wolfsburg have nothing in common with the Red Bull clubs. Those two were founded by factory workers of Bayer and Wolksvagen. This is where they get their name and sponsorship from. And lots of other clubs were formed around factories, as they were meant to provide better conditions for workers before clubs went professional. PSV and Sochaux were formed around Phillips and Peugeot. Red Bull just bought clubs and pumped money into them via nefarious means. Leverkusen and Wolfsburg don't do that and their relations to corporations are historical.
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4 team league I love it
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Is this any different than City taking 'revenue' from shell companies owned by their club's owner? If nothing will be done to City for money laundering and stuff like that I doubt anything comes of this.
And despite all of this, the Premier League will keep opening its legs to any shitty human with a lot of money.
Do you know what money laundering is?
Fire and blood
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