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
  • ThedudeofmanchesterBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Well that’s a bit vague, isn’t it. Doesnt provided any convincing information just that the previous club owner may have done something sketchy with the club’s profits. Some sources revealed Chelsea’s profits directly go to Putin’s pockets. How do this breach financial fair play? We ain’t doping the transfer market with state fund money. It’s just roman’s own business what he does with the profits how does that lead to point deduction after this whole fiasco

  • UglyWanKanobiOPBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    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.

    • NotClayMerrittBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      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.

      • empireskBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        You do have to question this entire piece of journalism considering it’s not telling us anything new or groundbreaking.

        Did you read the article? It literally states multiple instances of rule breaches that have not been self reported.

  • helpmefindmyuncle123BEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Chelsea’s success will always have an asterix next to it - if they were owned by Arabs, of course.

  • The_Big_Cheese_09BEnglish
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    10 months ago

    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.