Let's All Laugh At... Let's all laugh at Chelsea thread

[TheChosenOne]

Just reading through their forum - fuck me, they're a bit deluded when it comes to their success... comments like we have built this, deserve this, blah blah... slagging off Roman... talk about short term memories - it was his billions in the first place. Pack of ****s.

Maybe some of them have finally found out Abramovich is Jewish already ?

 

['O Zio]

How come as an Israeli he can come over here for six months at a time? Is that the norm or just for Israel.

Not necessarily the norm for everyone but it's the norm for various approved countries that you can come over without a visa for different amounts of time like 6 months, 90 days etc. Like Americans, for example, can come over like that with no visa for 6 months same as him. The stipulation is that it's purely as a tourist though, you're not allowed to work etc.

And it's not 6 months at a time, it's 6 months out of every 12 I think so you can do one on, one off etc. if you could be arsed but if he came over for a full 6 months he'd then have to go back and wait for another 6 months before he could come back etc.

 

[Dillspur]

TBH the most impressive thing is the interior, its really is amazing, close to the pitch than any new stadium and steeper than any new stadium

I would be amazed if it was closer and steeper than what ours would be, from what I've read in the new stadium thread we are at the limit in regards to the rake and how close we are to the pitch. New builds have restrictions and I believe stands have to be a certain distance from the field

 

[spud]

Just reading through their forum - fuck me, they're a bit deluded when it comes to their success... comments like we have built this, deserve this, blah blah... slagging off Roman... talk about short term memories - it was his billions in the first place. Pack of ****s.

That makes no sense. If they've 'built' and 'deserve' success rather than it being dependent upon Abramovich's largesse then his departure will have absolutely no effect on their continuing success - whether or not he recalls his mega-loan. So they have absolutely nothing to bitch about.

So as well as having a high proportion of neanderthals / nazis among their number they must also have a collective mental handicap.

I look forward to the russian's departure, the subsequent realisation of any prospective purchasers that it would cost too much to finance future success in a club with such a frail financial infrastructure and massive potential stadium outlay, and the inevitable regression to barely-relevant 'yo-yo club'.

Today is a good day.

 

[chinaman]

Am I the only one who reads your name as Vagasil mate???

Don't misread it as Viagra.

 

[Spriggan]

Chelsea fans shitting it. Shame.

http://www.theshedend.com/topic/23522-our-new-stadium/?page=114

Poor babies.........nope, can't find any empathy, my give a damn's busted

 

[spud]

http://www.theshedend.com/topic/23522-our-new-stadium/?page=114

One poster on there wrote "We're the boys in blue from division two and we'll be back there soon!"

I'll drink to that.

 

[VegasII]

Am I the only one who reads your name as Vagasil mate???

No!

 

[spursfan77]

In their last set of accounts he personally put £34 million into the club so is still bankrolling them to some degree. So any talk of the club being self sufficient isn’t exactly true.

Let’s hope he starts wanting his £1 billion back though. A Chelsea fire sale would be hilarious.

They missed the deadline of yesterday to pay the £7 million release clause for Sarri yesterday so that seems strange if they wanted him. Maybe Conte will stay on. Would be a shock though.

 

[allatsea]

Just reading through their forum - fuck me, they're a bit deluded when it comes to their success... comments like we have built this, deserve this, blah blah... slagging off Roman... talk about short term memories - it was his billions in the first place. Pack of ****s.

There wouldn’t be a Chelsea if it wasn’t for Abramovichs money. They were on the point of financial collapse before he rescued them.

 

[TheChosenOne]

If and when they eventually do that rebuild it will still be in located in Fulham.

That must suck for the fans to know that.

Could you imagine us saying 'We are the famous Tottenham and we come from Arsenal' ?

Bleeding cuckoo / yo-yo team

 

[For the love of Spurs]

If and when they eventually do that rebuild it will still be in located in Fulham.

That must suck for the fans to know that.

Could you imagine us saying 'We are the famous Tottenham and we come from Arsenal' ?

Bleeding cuckoo / yo-yo team

We would never move to Woolwich.

 

[spurs_girl_tasha]

Almost wish I was dating my ex so I could rub his face in this. I hate nobody more than I hate Chelsea, hope they just fade into nothingness.

 

[hellava_tough]

In their last set of accounts he personally put £34 million into the club so is still bankrolling them to some degree. So any talk of the club being self sufficient isn’t exactly true.

Let’s hope he starts wanting his £1 billion back though. A Chelsea fire sale would be hilarious.

They missed the deadline of yesterday to pay the £7 million release clause for Sarri yesterday so that seems strange if they wanted him. Maybe Conte will stay on. Would be a shock though.

Think that would be a disaster for them; he was barely trying in the league, by the end of last season

 

[worcestersauce]

Being reported that they have broken off talks with Courtois for a new contract, if true it fits the narrative of not wanting to pay him and will sell him to get some money in which again all fits in with the Russian pulling out.
Just a thought, if he waves his billion pound loan doesn't it become liable for tax?

 

[Dov67]

I think £1 billion is a very conservative estimate to be honest. Our build cost circa £850 million. This wasn't going to happen for many years, and their build seemed more complicated given the stadium is boxed in.

Any new buyer would have to pay off the £1.2 billion owed to Roman (according to The Times) plus fund a new ground. Even for an a Saudi billionaire for example, this is big big money.

Lets hope the whole thing falls apart

 

[Adam456]

Have to say with only a few exceptions the posters on the few pages I read there are absolutely your stereotypical plastic glory hunters with little or no knowledge or insight into football. A couple were quite resigned to RA selling up but provided it was to another billionaire who would throw similar money at it then they were just fine !

 

[whitestreak]

Next Nike will re-examine and re-evaluate their support of Chelsea....


If RA is not pumping in the billions their investment/sponsorship starts to look like shit..


They will pare back on Chelsea,, hopefully increase up on us...


Nike WHL anyone?

 

[absolute bobbins]

LIke the other so called oligarchs, Abramovich stole his filthy lucre from the Russian people.

The City and bought-and-paid-for politicians - from New Labour's Mandy, Blair & Brown to the Bullingdon Tories Cameron, Osborne & Boris - were only too happy to accommodate the dirty billions, and turn a blind eye to the mafia culture that accompanied oligarch dosh, as long as it was Russians killing Russians, ideally in expensive properties with CCTV that mysteriously stopped functioning.

But now the worm has turned. Abramovich has recognised that mounting political pressure on the British government means they have to be seen to be making life a little tougher for the oligarchs. So he's made a long-planned move to his Chabad mates in Israel. An entirely logical and calculated move from his perspective, I would add.

The silver lining will be if chavski's best players leave and the club goes into full RAWK meltdown mode....

Chabad? Explain!

 

[yanno]

Chabad? Explain!

Starter for Ten.

Ever since the Steele dossier was shown to be flaky and lacking in evidence, Chabad links to Trump Org have allegedly become the new focus of Mueller's probe into supposed Trump-Russia collusion.

Below is a mainstream source - Politico - which includes details of Abramovich's bankrolling of Chabad, with a predictable focus on links to Trump.

Given the current rampant Russophobia and demonisation of Putin, from his own perspective Abramovich is wise to take himself out of US extradition range.

A couple of snippets:

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Starting in 1999, Putin enlisted two of his closest confidants, the oligarchs Lev Leviev and Roman Abramovich, who would go on to become Chabad’s biggest patrons worldwide, to create the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia under the leadership of Chabad rabbi Berel Lazar, who would come to be known as “Putin’s rabbi.”
A few years later, Trump would seek out Russian projects and capital by joining forces with a partnership called Bayrock-Sapir, led by Soviet emigres Tevfik Arif, Felix Sater and Tamir Sapir—who maintain close ties to Chabad. The company’s ventures would lead to multiple lawsuits alleging fraud and a criminal investigation of a condo project in Manhattan.

(snip)

Kushner and Ivanka Trump are also close with Abramovich’s wife, Dasha Zhukova. Abramovich, an industrialist worth more than $7 billion and the owner of the British soccer club Chelsea FC, is the former governor of the Russian province of Chukotka, where he is still revered as a hero. He owes his fortune to his triumphant emergence from Russia’s post-Soviet “aluminum wars,” in which more than 100 people are estimated to have died in fighting over control of aluminum refineries. Abramovich admitted in 2008 that he amassed his assets by paying billions of dollars in bribes. In 2011, his former business partner, the late Boris Berezovsky—an oligarch who had fallen out with Putin and gone on to live in exile at the Trump International on Central Park West—accused him of threats, blackmail and intimidation in a lawsuit in the United Kingdom, which Abramovich won.

Abramovich was reportedly the first person to recommend to Yeltsin that he choose Putin as his successor. In their 2004 biography of Abramovich, the British journalists Chris Hutchins and Dominic Midgely write, “When Putin needed a shadowy force to act against his enemies behind the scenes, it was Abramovich whom he could rely on to prove a willing co-conspirator.” The biographers compare the two men’s relationship to that between a father and a son and report that Abramovich personally interviewed candidates for Putin’s first cabinet. He has reportedly gifted Putin a $30 million yacht, though Putin denies it.

Abramovich’s vast business holdings and his personal life overlap with Trump’s world in multiple ways.

According to a 2012 report from researchers at Cornell University, Evraz, a firm partly owned by Abramovich, has contracts to provide 40 percent of the steel for the Keystone XL pipeline, a project whose completion was approved by Trump in March after years of delay. And in 2006, Abramovich purchased a large stake in the Russian oil giant Rosneft, a company now being scrutinized for its possible role in alleged collusion between Trump and Russia. Both Trump and the Kremlin have dismissed as "fake news" a dossier that alleges that a recent sale of Rosneft shares was part of a scheme to ease U.S. sanctions on Russia.

Meanwhile, his wife, Zhukova, has long traveled in the same social circles as Kushner and Ivanka Trump: She is a friend and business partner of Rupert Murdoch’s ex-wife Wendi Deng, one of Ivanka’s closest friends, and a friend of Karlie Kloss, the longtime girlfriend of Kushner’s brother, Josh.

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In 2013, a $50 million Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center opened in Moscow under the auspices of Chabad and with funding from Abramovich. Putin donated a month of his salary to the project, while the Federal Security Service, the successor to the KGB, pitched in by offering relevant documents from its archives.


https://www.politico.com/magazine/s...sh-group-that-connects-trump-and-putin-215007