The Football News Thread 2022/23

[Tony Towner]

The PL won't do anything they never do

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Those losses are impossible to sustain.

 

[Dire Wolf]

Those losses are impossible to sustain.

Even more so without their oligarch sugar daddy...

 

[BillyDee]

Abramovich's assets frozen by UK government putting sale on hold...

 

[Lupo]

And Chelsea unable to sell tickets so only STHs will be able to attend games

 

[Aikiwolf]

And Chelsea unable to sell tickets so only STHs will be able to attend games

Chelsea club shop closed and it looks like the STHs only means no away fans.

 

[The Bear]

Tough sanctions for Chelsea:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1501852399417401347

 

[The Bear]

Seems a bit harsh on Chelsea the club and their fans. I get that stopping Abramovic selling the club and him profiting is a good thing, and stopping him from accessing any of Chelsea's money too.

But how is banning ticket sales, merchandise and player transfers helping anything?

 

[Wilf Wolf]

Seems a bit harsh on Chelsea the club and their fans. I get that stopping Abramovic selling the club and him profiting is a good thing, and stopping him from accessing any of Chelsea's money too.

But how is banning ticket sales, merchandise and player transfers helping anything?

He owns the club so all sales increase its profitability. The sanctions apply to every business owned by the person being sanctioned. The fact one of his businesses is a football club makes no difference, they all have to be treated the same.

 

[Derby Wolf]

Fuck their fans for chanting his name before kick off. Couldn't happen to a nicer club.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

He owns the club so all sales increase its profitability. The sanctions apply to every business owned by the person being sanctioned. The fact one of his businesses is a football club makes no difference, they all have to be treated the same.

Yep. He can't receive money into a UK-based operation or send money out from one. Obviously he wasn't creaming off ticket money to buy a new yacht or anything but that's irrelevant.

You can't say "you're sanctioned except for this bit because people like that element of your business".

 

[Newbridge Wolf]

Fair play, seems like we have got some teeth after all.

I have zero sympathy for Chelsea fans, I've hated them ever since they got the money. Bitter person that I am lol

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1501852329947107333

 

[AndyWolves]

Could Chelsea go bust here? Presumably they still have to pay wages etc?

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Completely unprecedented circumstances so who knows.

They will have some cash reserves but a football club with no income and no outside funding will burn through them very quickly.

 

[Sniffer]

£28m a month wage bill.

Would the Premier League allow the release of TV monies to cover running costs?

 

[Nando]

Three have requested that their sponsorship deal is suspended.

 

[Stan Hullis]

Looking forward to us inevitably going the same way when China goes for Taiwan...

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

£28m a month wage bill.

Would the Premier League allow the release of TV monies to cover running costs?

They did with Pompey (although you're supposed to get at least 14 of the other 19 clubs to agree. They didn't, but the PL did it anyway, as well as early parachute money being as it was obvious they were going down).

 

[Tony Towner]

Looking forward to us inevitably going the same way when China goes for Taiwan...

I thought something similar when I saw some of the gloating