Enter Wahl,
He'll be all over the site today!

Goodbye,Russian blood money!

Why is the OP making articles advocating for richer owners to take over at rival clubs?

The king is dead, long live the king

Uh oh!

Wonder if Mr Ratcliffe will come back in?

comment by 9ctics (U21076)
posted 13 minutes ago
Why is the OP making articles advocating for richer owners to take over at rival clubs?
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How is this advocating?

Disgusting club

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/chelsea-deny-club-up-sale-13140847

comment by JonVeron (U6514)

posted 4 minutes ago

Disgusting club
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Don't be so angry Jon, it's Sunday after all and we wouldn't want a utd fan buying the club would we!

This op is more of an attention seeker than Wahl ffs,how sad.

This was Exclusively the work of the Sunday Times ...Possibly for the reasons that he's reportedly having issues with his visa while the club’s new stadium has been delayed by Brexit. Nine years ago, the Sunday Times also ran a story about Abramovich exploring a sale. He responded by suing the Sunday Times for libel.

Daft story.

As if anyone is going to pay two billion.

Big “EXCLUSIVE” from today’s Sunday Times: “Roman Abramovich in multibillion-pound plot to sell Chelsea”. Does Roman have to “plot” to sell his own property? Apparently so.

Spoiler alert; here’s the last line of the piece, emphasis mine: “Chelsea declined to comment but a source close to the club said it was “not for sale”. Silver Lake and Raine declined to comment.” Silver Lake Partners are a US-based investment group, whose bid to acquire a minority stake in June was apparently knocked back.

So, the headline screams sale, everyone else is mum or is denying through sources. Of course that’s what they would say, you would say. It’s perhaps worthy to note that these Chelsea sources “close to the club” are so keen to deny it that they roused Simon Johnson from his holidays, even.

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Just a brief visit from my hiatus..in light of fresh stories suggesting #Abramovich could sell #cfc, been assured that is not the case. Club is not for sale/Abramovich not interested in selling.

As far as the “EXCLUSIVE” itself, there isn’t much meat to the story. Chelsea have apparently retained the services of Raine Group, an “investment bank specialising in sport, technology, media and telecoms to oversee a strategic review”.

Companies hold strategic reviews for all sorts of reasons — reorgs, acquisitions, sales, mergers, etc — but the Times claim it’s with a view to sell, apparently because Manchester City hired Raine Group as well recently for a similar purpose. Except City’s owners only sold a minority stake (13%) in the club to Chinese investors, which is a move that Abramovich certainly could explore as well — and there were rumors of Roman seeking investment from China to help fund the stadium build, so that sort of fits. But none of that amounts to a sale of the club.

Speaking of the stadium, Abramovich’s move to put those plans on hold after the full extent of his visa issues came to light is of course used as supporting evidence, though Chelsea moved very quickly after that story first broke to deny any such intent. Abramovich has since acquired Israeli citizenship, which allows him to visit the UK (and thus watch his team play), but prevents him from doing work in the country. So that’s a situation worth keeping an eye on, but so far, it seems to have had no adverse affect.

In fact, after an idle few weeks in June, Chelsea have made some strong moves that certainly don’t point to Abramovich exiting the club anytime soon. We’ve appointed a brand new coach with the usual Abramovich brief of “entertaining football”, we’ve outbid Manchester City for Jorginho, we broke the world record for transfer fee spent on a goalkeeper, we’ve reassembled the Loan Army (stronger than ever with 40 likely to join), and we’ve held on to Hazard and Willian and Morata and almost all the rest. Chelsea could’ve easily cashed in on valuable assets this summer; instead we’ve added to them. None of that rules out Abramovich selling of course, but they aren’t standard moves one makes to get all their ducks lined up in a row in order to entice a bid.

We’ll see how (or if) Chelsea respond to this story beyond just the usual media channels. Nine years ago, the Sunday Times also ran a story about Abramovich exploring a sale. The Chelsea owner responded by suing the Sunday Times for libel. Presumably, the Times have stronger sources this time to risk running a similar story. Or maybe they’re just feeling lucky.

Abramovich is one of the longest serving owners in the Premier League these days, with 15 year (and 15 trophies!) under his belt. Here’s to the next 15 in both counts.

https://weaintgotnohistory.sbnation.com/2018/8/26/17782974/abramovich-plots-to-sell-chelsea-according-to-sunday-times-exclusive

God imagine what we are worth if such a small club like Chelsea were bought for 2 billion

comment by Robbing_Hoody (U6374)
posted 11 minutes ago
Daft story.

As if anyone is going to pay two billion.
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A takeover offer for Chelsea FC by Ineos tycoon Sir Jim Ratcliffe is said to have been in the works for more than two months

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/roman-abramovich-rejects-jim-ratcliffe-bid-to-buy-chelsea-brl0vdxn0

Righto, so is it being sold or not? 2 billion seems a touch steep especially given the state of the awful stadium. London prices could play a part I guess.

comment by Manc Python (U17527)
posted 12 minutes ago
God imagine what we are worth if such a small club like Chelsea were bought for 2 billion
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Infinitely more if they were not such a boring side to watch!

Selling for £2 billion ?How did you come to that conclusion ? The club rejected a bid for £2billion, because Roman is not interested to sell the club. He may consider to sell a small stake, in similar fashion to what Man City owners did a few years back though.

Errr from this

Reuters reports he has directed a New York bank to sell the club for £2bn

We're hired the Raine Group because we're stratifigising.

comment by West London Express (U5874)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Manc Python (U17527)
posted 12 minutes ago
God imagine what we are worth if such a small club like Chelsea were bought for 2 billion
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Infinitely more if they were not such a boring side to watch!
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Errr i don't think clubs are bought on what the side look like on the pitch at that time
What a m0nng

Lol. Reuters are making guess work, like the Sunday Times are doing now, not for the first time mind.

comment by ism (U20893)
posted 31 seconds ago
Lol. Reuters are making guess work, like the Sunday Times are doing now, not for the first time mind.
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Would I be right in thinking that the media you believe is better than the media you don't?

comment by Robbing_Hoody (U6374)
posted 1 minute ago
comment byism (U20893)
posted 31 seconds ago
Lol. Reuters are making guess work, like the Sunday Times are doing now, not for the first time mind.
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Would I be right in thinking that the media you believe is better than the media you don't?
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Sunday Times have a record for making things up in the past, in fact they run a similar story a while back subsequently sued for it and found to be libel