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Chelsea FC face new questions over how Roman Abramovich funded success | Roman Abramovich
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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.
Hey guys, I just murdered someone. I'm being upfront though, so I guess that's fine right?
Not really the same but yeah that would potentially soften the sentencing
More like I murdered one guy and admitted it. That means you can ignore the other 15 bodies right.
Don't think self reporting matters does it? They can still penalise the club, dock points and put a transfer ban in place.
It certainly helps, or at least should. Thought City's tactic of denying, bribing and throwing lawyers at it seems to be working better.
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.
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.
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