Chelsea For Sale To The Arabs?
Rumours seem to be increasing that Roman Abramovich has not only fallen out of love with Chelsea but he’s actually looking to sell up.
The latest we’re hearing is that he’s been meeting Gulf Arabs and members of the Saudi royal family in an effort to offload us at the best price. City sources reckon that even though the “going rate” would be about £500million, Abramovich would be looking for somewhere in the region of £800million.
Abramovich’s wealth is said to have reduced drastically and the suggestion is he needs to sort out his immediate cash flow. And whilst I find it difficult to believe the Russian is so hard pushed for money he needs to sell the club, he doesn’t exactly help matters by leaving before the end of games, when we’re 1-0 down and misses us fighting our arses off to come back and win at the death.
However, despite ‘a source’ saying “Abramovich’s team have been out in the Middle East sounding out what interest there is in buying the club”, Peter Kenyon insists Abramovich has no intention of selling Chelsea. The Chelsea chief executive says “There has been a lot of rumour and speculation surrounding Chelsea and the owner’s commitment to the club. I can assure you on his behalf that this is totally unfounded and anything else you might read about this is rubbish. Chelsea is not for sale. The owner has not and is not looking to sell his interest in the club and he remains as committed as ever.”
The fact that it’s Kenyon who’s said it makes me nervous in itself somehow and I can’t think of anything worse than being sold to the Arabs.
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As committed as ever yet he leaves before the end of the game?
Yeah he got me fooled.
Everyone in work mocked me saying that chelsea is up for sale inc all the players.
I got 100% faith in chelsea still. We will be ok
Dan – these stories are always a bit unnerving although I’ve always hoped we weren’t just a plaything Abramovich would eventually get bored with. Fortunately, the statement on the club’s site today seems to confirm he really isnt going anywhere.
Please sell Chelsea. Abramovich is such an idiot. He don’t know how to hire people like peter kenyon who is an idiot too.
We can’t win with old fallas like drogba, ballack, deco we need young and talented players. Sell all these old lads along with maluda,belleti, feriera, alex, evanovic. Bring new players who have passion for football.
Peter kenyon just shut up and give scolari money to buy new lads.
jm – I totally disagree with you. Whilst I’d like to see Kenyon out because he’s the worst thing that ever happened to Chelsea, Abramovich selling the club to a load of even more clueless Arabs would totally ruin us.
The changes at Chelsea, with Abramovich asking managers to use the resources they’ve got, i.e. starting to use our younger players, is a much more respectable way to run a football club. Of course we had a lot of fun when he first came in and bankrolled us, but where is the pride in buying titles?
On reflection, us spending the ridiculous sums of money we did was bad enough, but would you really want the club you support to start throwing £100million at individual players? Running around trying to buy up the worlds best, irrespective of whether they can actually play together? Do you really want to go back to being accused of buying rather than actually earning results?
No, for me, Abramovich is spot on this time. It’s ridiculous to imagine anyone can compete with Citeh, so let the Arabs do what they want with that club as long as they stay away from ours.
Man city will never amount to much just by throwing money around….they could win the FA cup once, maybe the Premiership once (in a few years), but Blackburn will always be the marker for throwing money around!
Chelsea are not consistently winning things yet and we are an example, it can be a long haul.
Abramovich is not a silly man and has made money by being shrewd in business….not by listening to media speculation!
Not sure about Kenyon, I dont really know him…but he was a Mancy Red first…
My God Man City has too much money to spend on players FROM CHELSEA FANS Peter Hone Chelsea D did you really write this or think it sounded ok in your HEAD?
YOU ARE BLACKBURN of the 2000 you fools
Did you think that it was just good luck or the aura of Chelsea with a Rich man Abramovich turning up and then a few players decide that they would like to wear the blue cause it match their eyes? Then you became a big club or a sleeping giant woke up with the turn of the new millennium.
Wise up fools you got all the silverware cause off the Money of Abramovich gave you. Man City have just take over you crown of we are the richest club and we can buy anybody attitude not just has beings Russians but real best player in the world not show off divers from Portugal.
If the stories of how the Arabs are starting to buy one club how long before the rest of them want to have some fun with playing “Real playstation game” They are the one with the money to spend where as Abramovich is not willing to spend as much now that he is not the big lad anymore. He has gone from the big fish to a small fish now that the Arabs money has started too moved from the horseracing to the football.
Really think that Abramovich is interested in Chelsea any more when he use to watch every match now its more of when he can be bothered to turn up sound like the end of the money honey
So back to your situation will you be the new Leeds of the South or Blackburn?
Liverpool were the biggest club for years due to their good football, not really megabuck spending as the money was not really about at the time.
Man Utd took the mantle with the ability to spend big bucks, buying up anyone who would join them?
Chelsea were and still are a big club, some times badly run, sometimes with bad players…but I fail to see how they are the Blackburn of 2000….how many times did blackburn win the league???
Chelsea are still there or is the table lying?
Man city might win the league in a few years time, but buying Kaka alongside Bellamy…am I missing something here???
Kaka might me good, but a one man team he is not!
I am wondering why he wants to have get out clauses in his contract though???
If it carries on football will destroy itself…with exorbitant ( Sham, you may need to look that one up)salaries and average players!
The fans need to stand up for football…real football, salary caps, with transfers set up so the lower clubs get a shot at the better players…more competition required….not one sided boring shit that we have nowadays!
Chelsea or City or Utd….premiership is so predictable…how boring is that….nearly as boring as teams from the north;-)
My appreciation Peter using big words like exorbitant but lavatory is also a big word and guesses what it is full off?
No not just shit but Chelsea title hopes!!!
I could use elegant words to say how ironical that Chelsea fans now want real football, salary caps and money levellers for all clubs but one word too sum up Fear
The fear that Chelsea slip away like Leeds and you can see it happening maybe not as I look at your predictions of Chelsea or City or Utd just missed out 2 of the two Four as they are called to now.
Why is that are you just wearing the I do not want to see blinkers of clubs with richer history than Chelsea? Everton have won more than you have!! Aston Villa also have lifted more silverware.
Just a bit like the commentator on the Sky TV game on Saturday with Preston North End
“Preston have never being in the top division as yet” Silly bugger they won the first league title when it was real football, salary cap where the order of the day. However, Sky TV did not hire any Historians until after the Premiership started.
As for boring winning is not boring to fan with some silverware at the end of the season even for Chelsea fans.
As for Man City buying Kaka and Bellamy it could be a case of big thinkers and Englishman manager (ok Welshman). While the Arabs want and will get the worlds best 11 but Hughes wants a Welshman that he has managed to fight for a club for every ball Dopy Didier take note of Bellamy work rate and commitment.
So Blackburn bought 1 league tile you got one more to make up the 3 you have in total same as Leeds funny to say only Leeds have won a lot more in European competitions.
I think sham has a lot of wasted energy and resentment of opposition football fans burning him up,which could be used helping the game in this country!
I am a football fan, chelsea fan, Glasgow Rangers season ticket holder, open minded(look that up as well!) guy who lives at present in Singapore and watches Singapore football (national team and S.league) and mark my words if winning bits of silver has to be bought….it is boring and we are in the shit!
I watch more live football than your average armchair fan and am passionate about watching decent soccer played by people who are passionate about the game and not just in it for the money…egotistical,overpaid,overated primadonnas…and yes chelsea have a few!!!
I went to the old firm on 27 dec. with my son who then directly went to watch Airdrie v Morton, (and he is a talented player himself) and he commented how much more committed the Airdrie players were compared to the old firm….and he is just 11!!!!
I watched Singapore v Vietnam on 22 December, with 50,000 fans all sitting together, with players who were all committed, with gate prices that were value for money….and the game was nowhere near as predictable as 90% of the premiership games and much more fun!
I have no fear as regards chelsea goes, but I have a fear that our game is made a mockery of, by people who are playing with it and feeding their egos and who are egged on by people who think silverware is the be all and end all…..how crass!
I love football and the italian league was the best in the world, the french league was bloody good too,….more money pumped in, more corruption and then the collapse!
We have corruption and more money will mean more corruption, more paranoia and then the inevitable collapse with….spanish football waiting in the wings??
Maybe even the scottish league would be waiting and how embarrased would everyone be then
As I said my son is a very talented young player with a couple of clubs on his tail, but how sad would it be if he made it and had to play in an England team that was as poor as it is now and caused by people destroying our game with average foreigners on salaries that dont match their worth!
Maybe thats why he keeps saying he wants to play for Scotland..!
I agree with you about how buying silverware is the same for the glory fans not just Chelsea as it horrifies the “pure football fan”
In addition, I spend countless hours working for Free for the sport and what I Keep saying to you Chelsea fans is that you have bought your glory and now that the money is leaving get ready to drop back to being a normal small club or become the new Leeds.
I have to smile when you state you are a “Chelsea fan Glasgow Rangers season ticket holder open minded”. Just like the headstone for the MP and an honest man as the man reading it say “must be two people buried in there!!
U also talk about your son being a good player for his age so if Glasgow Celtic offers him a contract would you let him play for them??
Thanks for offering to look up big word for me. .
What do you educated people call it that a big book of words?
Maybe I could employ the use of a Thesaurus {look that up if you need too} to read the simple drivel that you write.
A question or is it a quiz who is not “the egotistical, overpaid, overated primadonna”… Chelsea player??
Moreover, if you are such a football fan how can you state that Chelsea where a big club when the history show them to be lacking in the silverware department?
Did you just like the blue that they wear to be the same as your first club Rangers?
Sham – you’re so eaten up with bitterness it clouds your ability to accept the ‘facts’. Abramovich’s money might well have given us the means to challenge for titles that was missing (or bought us a couple of titles, whatever) but we were in the top four before he arrived and we had recently won silverware. Where were Citeh before the Arabs? When did they last win anything? And as Peter’s rightly pointed out, what exactly happened to Blackburn after their one season wonder? Are we comparable? Did we suddenly slip out of the top four without me noticing?
I presume with your personal attack on me Sham, especially about my religious bigotry….sadly which I lack.
My first club is Chelsea and always will be and I follow Glasgow Rangers, because I have a house and am based in in Scotland, thats all, nothing else.
When my son was called as a 6/7 year old by Albion Rovers I did not look into the persuasion of the club, so I would no do so for any other club…
I personally don’t like the idea of the way football is run right now where one rich man can buy silverware to feed his ego, whether it is abramovich or the Yanks at Man Utd or some Arab at City…..it is wrong and it needs changing before clubs like those mentioned destroy the game for everyone else.
It seems as if Kaka has made the right decision to stay in Italy, shame as he is a great player and the premiership could do with him, but alas…you still have Bellamy!
I have enjoyed this part of the blog, but Sham you really need to open your mind instead of being so negative and pigeon holeing people based on your made up opinions, rather than reading the facts!
As far as overpaid , egotistical players at Chelsea…yes most of the team along with most of the premiership, but paying fans are supporting this in their chase for elusive silverware and for your club sadly it may take a few years yet
Firstly I am a Chelsea supporter, born and bred in London and followed them for years until moving to Scotland..hence thats why I now have season ticket at Glasgow Rangers and for that reason alone and your insinuation of my bigotry shall remain as that, insinuation.
My son was spotted by Albion Rovers and yes has been looked at by Celtic and in my eyes all clubs are the same…sorry to disappoint you.
Chelsea is full of overpaid, egotistical,overated players, but then so is the whole of the premiership!
If you could try and open your mind a bit wider, rather than making accusations and coming to rediculous conclusions on all sorts of things….maybe you could see how bitter you are.
I think it is ironic that Kaka has declined the invitation of Man City….did they really think he wanted to go and play along side Bellamy, another egotistical moron.
I think it a shame for the premiership we may not see him as he is a star player, but his refusal may well lead to the premiership having a good look at themselves before it is too late.
I do not think people should be able to come along and buy football clubs to play with to feed their egos, whether it Abramovich or whoever. We need fairness throughout the whole league to make competition fair and exciting and not the dross we are watching now and that includes everyone in the premiership and yes even man city and the exciting football they play!
OK Peter so you are a Chelsea Fan and I am just a bitter fan of lower intelligence than you Yeah right in your dream world where you live with the other voices you hear!!!
Kaka turning down Man City will may well lead to the premiership having a good look at themselves before it is too late. What plant are you on Son?
What does “in my eyes all clubs are the same” mean? So why do you follow or become a season ticket holder in Scotland when you live in Singapore Are you Walter Mitty? Alternatively, another one of Chelsea Deluded schizophrenically inducted friends?
Chelsea Deluded Blackburn where turn into a Premiership winners by Money and a Good Manager Notice THE SIMILARIES The last ten years have be good for you (yes 2003 when Abramovich money came) but recall 20 years ago winning the 2nd Division Did you play Everton, Man Utd, Liverpool, Aston Villa or Arsenal that season?
Yes you won the FA Cup before the League title came (Sorry the Fair Winners cup also) but would you really have won the league without Abramovich money or Maureen managing you? Also what silverware have Man City won bugger all for the last 30 odd or so amount of years but Blackburn big silverware winners before WALKERS money or Daglish appeared?
Must say that I feel like your personnel psychiatrist (may actually require the services of a clinical psychologist) to both Peter and Chelsea D or are you the same person? Maybe this Bog is attempt at helping you deal with your issues of schizophrenic but I must say my quick diagnosis is that is has deepen your condition and maybe I should not the piss out of you sorry to both of you. Have to nice to old people from now on
In your statement ‘would I let my son play for celtic’, you were inferring I was a bigot…you were seeking to cause some bigotted reaction?
In your eyes why would I not let my son play for celtic or any club come to that??? I dont hold any resentment or prejudice towards any club…I would like to think the same of you?
The reason I live in Singapore is for work, I have a well paid job with all the trappings of hard work, it also allows me to keep our two season tickets at Ibrox which are hard to come by with the seats we have. I would be silly to give them up, even whe the Gers are shite!
I do not think or, nor I have said you are of lower intelligence have I?
Try and read what is written and not what you think is going on between the lines!
Yes it has been good for chelsea, but I still do not think it is fair and I have stated so in this same blog if you look back….how can it be fair if chelsea,Man utd etc win because they have more money?????
We need an overhaul from top to bottom, with fair competition and a fair chance for all and if it means Man City or Coventry or anyone else for that matter winning and the likes of Man utd/Chelsea and the likes suffering….so be it, but it will be fairer and probably much more exciting?
Yes Chelsea could go the way of Blackburn and so could a few other clubs and a crying shme itwould be for the game if any more clubs went the way of Leeds eh?
I am a Chelsea fan and Leeds are not my favourite club, but it has not done any favours to footbll to see them struggle has it?
They should not be where they are….they were played with by people who had ego problems, paid salaries to players who had the same problems and who were average? Shame as they are a big club and by big club I do not mean how many pieces of silver they hav, but their fan base….they are big along side many others like Newcastle who are big and sufferingdue to the unfair advantage…the big money boys have!
I am not having a go at you and never have….It is about the game that is rapidly allowing the money men to destroy it!
P.s I am not the same person as Chelsea D ok.
Sham – you have no idea how ironic that comment was, gave me a bloody good laugh though!