Chelsea FC face new questions over how Roman Abramovich funded success
www.theguardian.com
Leaked files reveal secret payments that may have breached football’s strict ‘financial fair play’ rules
  • lordtnt@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    oh fuck off. If Chelsea spent $10bil and failed nobody would care. Why the fuck clubs with little success can’t become successful? Who cares where’s the money come from? $1 biil to football is far far better than $1 bil to guns/rpg/killing children.

    • Rorviver@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      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.

    • NotClayMerritt@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      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.

      • Alsmk2@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Hey guys, I just murdered someone. I’m being upfront though, so I guess that’s fine right?

      • grchelp2018@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        BUT if this leads to significant punishment down the line, it will taint Abramovich’s legacy as owner.

        Only if it leads to titles being stripped or something. A few 10s of millions in total going to some agents here and then isn’t going to do much.

        What I am curious about it is why they did so in the first place. The amounts are too little to go through all this trouble. I’m more inclined to think that his finances were such a complicated web that every now and then, money went out from the “wrong” shell companies or they simply missed it when reporting it later because it was so complicated.

      • Livinglifeform@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        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.

      • Rare-Ad-2777@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Don’t think self reporting matters does it? They can still penalise the club, dock points and put a transfer ban in place.

        • Rorviver@alien.topBEnglish
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          10 months ago

          It certainly helps, or at least should. Thought City’s tactic of denying, bribing and throwing lawyers at it seems to be working better.

      • 3500fp@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        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

  • SOERERY@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    City and Chelsea duking it out for the one direct promotion spot in the national league next season.

    • evenout@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I always like to think what would happen if a huge club dropped to the National League. It’s worse than relegation for players because the Championship is not that bad, some players jet off but some will stay to help fight back. If City or Chelsea, hypothetically were to drop down what would they do? Would Foden or James stay at their respective clubs to stat pad in the National League? Would the entire squad have a clear out and they’d use some PL2/U21 kids in the league? It’s fascinating to think about.

      • kitfan34@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Both ours and city’s academy is very strong as well so I’d imagine other PL and Championship clubs would sweep up a lot of our young players as well. End up fielding the under 8s

  • MealieAI@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    What’s new? Every couple of months “new” information comes out about some financial transaction that some club made. Football is a cesspool of secret money transfers and underhanded dealings.

    Call me when something concrete comes out or when a club is actually punished.

    • washag@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I’m not even sure these files were actually “leaked”. Chelsea have been reviewing the books and submitting opaque transactions as possible FFP violations to the PL since the new owners took over. Are these violations different from the ones that were self-reported?

  • QuaintHeadspace@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    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…

  • ryodiUK@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I want them to get the Juventus Calciopoli special but we all know they’ll go ‘new owners mate, nothing to do with us’ and the EPL will happily forget about it.