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robbiedee

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Don't make me post the other 141 babetips.

Post them...hopefully joolieboobie92 has a few more gems for us :D
 

chinaman

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Couldn't agree more. Their fans are a deluded bunch but mainly because they grew up supporting a club that won everything multiple times and broke numerous records. Chavski are the scummiest bunch of racists that celebrate the holocaust and Hillsborough. Their success is built off the back of extorted Russian Money brought in at a time they were going bust. Chelsea should be no better than Everton with out the financial doping coming into play.

If the Ruskie goes, there's always the possibility of some murky Chinese gambling syndicate taking over.
 

Wheeler Dealer

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If the Ruskie goes, there's always the possibility of some murky Chinese gambling syndicate taking over.
They wont be short of interest from a number of big players. They are now an established top 10 global brand club that will always attract investors.
 

Shadydan

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The thought that Chelsea will just disappear into obviation if Roman packs up is just entirely wishful thinking, self sustainable team in glamorous West London with a new stadium on the way, playing in the most lucrative league in the world - that'll interest quite a few investors who'd want to launder invest their money in the club.
 

heelspurs

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The thought that Chelsea will just disappear into obviation if Roman packs up is just entirely wishful thinking, self sustainable team in glamorous West London with a new stadium on the way, playing in the most lucrative league in the world - that'll interest quite a few investors who'd want to launder invest their money in the club.
*oblivion
I even resisted the facile Inigo Montoya reference.
 

Marty

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The thought that Chelsea will just disappear into obviation if Roman packs up is just entirely wishful thinking, self sustainable team in glamorous West London with a new stadium on the way, playing in the most lucrative league in the world - that'll interest quite a few investors who'd want to launder invest their money in the club.
True. The best thing we can hope for is a Milan style situation where the new owner massively over-borrows from loan sharks and he/the club gets in trouble for it.

Highly unlikely given the PL's revenue these days.
 

spids

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The thought that Chelsea will just disappear into obviation if Roman packs up is just entirely wishful thinking, self sustainable team in glamorous West London with a new stadium on the way, playing in the most lucrative league in the world - that'll interest quite a few investors who'd want to launder invest their money in the club.

Doesn't Chelsea owe Abramovich £500M in interest free loans? If Abramovich fails, Chelsea fail too. Unlikely, but still possible.
 

Woland

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Doesn't Chelsea owe Abramovich £500M in interest free loans? If Abramovich fails, Chelsea fail too. Unlikely, but still possible.
Chinese consortium bought Milan for 570M pounds ($788 million).
Abu Dhabi money in Manchester City (incl. Council deal) factoring in the annual losses, now in excess of 1Bn reportedly.

Unaccountable funds from the Middle East are available for now a global brand like Chelsea, make no mistake.
If the Emirates and Qatar can lay out such obscene amounts for PR purposes only, you get the idea how much they have for actual investment. Only a full-scale war can put a halt to this rotten practice.
 

'O Zio

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Doesn't Chelsea owe Abramovich £500M in interest free loans? If Abramovich fails, Chelsea fail too. Unlikely, but still possible.

The only way Abramovich fails is if someone puts a bullet in the back of his head, but given that the main reason he owns Chelsea in the first place is to lessen the chance of that happening I can't see him either leaving or failing any time soon.
 

'O Zio

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Chinese consortium bought Milan for 570M pounds ($788 million).
Abu Dhabi money in Manchester City (incl. Council deal) factoring in the annual losses, now in excess of 1Bn reportedly.

Unaccountable funds from the Middle East are available for now a global brand like Chelsea, make no mistake.
If the Emirates and Qatar can lay out such obscene amounts for PR purposes only, you get the idea how much they have for actual investment. Only a full-scale war can put a halt to this rotten practice.

Yeah but the Chinese who bought Milan don't actually have any money and borrowed a load of it from a vulture fund. I've said it elsewhere and I'll say it again, Milan will collapse financially within 10 years, probably even sooner, unless some sort of miracle happens.

It's somewhat ironic that after decades of being owned by the dodgiest of all dodgy Italians, it's actually the people who followed him who will end up bringing the club down from the inside
 

shelfmonkey

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Chinese consortium bought Milan for 570M pounds ($788 million).
Abu Dhabi money in Manchester City (incl. Council deal) factoring in the annual losses, now in excess of 1Bn reportedly.

Unaccountable funds from the Middle East are available for now a global brand like Chelsea, make no mistake.
If the Emirates and Qatar can lay out such obscene amounts for PR purposes only, you get the idea how much they have for actual investment. Only a full-scale war can put a halt to this rotten practice.

That may be a possibility sooner than you think!
 

Lilbaz

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Yeah but the Chinese who bought Milan don't actually have any money and borrowed a load of it from a vulture fund. I've said it elsewhere and I'll say it again, Milan will collapse financially within 10 years, probably even sooner, unless some sort of miracle happens.

It's somewhat ironic that after decades of being owned by the dodgiest of all dodgy Italians, it's actually the people who followed him who will end up bringing the club down from the inside

Think they are already failing ffp.

http://www.goal.com/en-tza/news/del...s-legendary-italian/bcksa78z4gtq1jsnvdbdd0my6
 

'O Zio

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And the money they borrowed from that vulture fund is due back at a very short deadline as well, I think it may even be at the end of the season or something. Plus it's obviously at huge interest. There's no sign of them having managed to scrape together the money to pay it back in the meantime and all investigations into where they ever got funding from in the first place have so far led to dead ends. On top of that, any money they had left after the purchase they've splashed out over the summer, largely without success. The whole thing is just a ticking time bomb.
 

Flashp

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And the money they borrowed from that vulture fund is due back at a very short deadline as well, I think it may even be at the end of the season or something. Plus it's obviously at huge interest. There's no sign of them having managed to scrape together the money to pay it back in the meantime and all investigations into where they ever got funding from in the first place have so far led to dead ends. On top of that, any money they had left after the purchase they've splashed out over the summer, largely without success. The whole thing is just a ticking time bomb.

It's still AC Milan though, one of the worlds biggest clubs.

There will always be someone else ready to take over, with or without the debt. The same thing almost happened to Liverpool under Hicks and Gillett, yet there was a lot of interest in the club, and they ended up with FSG.

The worlds biggest clubs will always survive, as there will always be interested buyers. The new owners might not be sugardaddies, but it's unfeasible to think that one of the worlds biggest clubs will cease to exist, alone due to financial reasons.
 

Shadydan

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Doesn't Chelsea owe Abramovich £500M in interest free loans? If Abramovich fails, Chelsea fail too. Unlikely, but still possible.

What normally happens when another investment takes over a company...they take over the debt themselves.
 

Lilbaz

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It's still AC Milan though, one of the worlds biggest clubs.

There will always be someone else ready to take over, with or without the debt. The same thing almost happened to Liverpool under Hicks and Gillett, yet there was a lot of interest in the club, and they ended up with FSG.

The worlds biggest clubs will always survive, as there will always be interested buyers. The new owners might not be sugardaddies, but it's unfeasible to think that one of the worlds biggest clubs will cease to exist, alone due to financial reasons.

They might not cease to exist (rangers did). But they might suffer.
Liverpool survived because the money owed to the banks was less than their value so the banks sold them for a cut price deal. Leeds weren't so lucky. Valencia are struggling still unable to build their stadium. Malaga haven't been heard from. Aston villa? Parma?
What happens if someone with deep pockets doesn't step in? What if the debts are bigger than possible profits making it just not worthwhile to invest?
Ac milan don't own their stadium so all they have is a brand that is quickly eroding. Addidas have just terminated a 10 year deal with them and the tv rights are now split more evenly. Attendances are up this season to about 50k (capacity 80k) but were around the 40k mark for the last few years. When the price of a ticket is under €15 that isn't good.

They might be bought out by a rich benefactor or sugar daddy who wants to get them back to former glory or they might not.
 
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