Roman Abramovich

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Originally Posted by animallittle3

Ego is in there Pass , the money is irrelevant as you've pointed out .

He's lost a certain amount of face and when money doesn't matter ego certainly does .

He's on the wrong side of this and he knows it .

Nobody would even know the fecker without Chelsea despite his wealth .

That's why he bought the club in the first place .

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The money might be irrelevant to him - but it’s not irrelevant to the people of Russia - where the money belongs.
People in Russia living on next to nothing while Chelsea pay out £100 million on a player and give that player £200,000 per week.

All the Russian assets in London should be sold.
And any further money from Russia blocked.
It’s highly immoral for our capital city of London to be the place where Russians wash their dirty money.

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Originally Posted by Young_Nudger

The money might be irrelevant to him - but it’s not irrelevant to the people of Russia - where the money belongs.
People in Russia living on next to nothing while Chelsea pay out £100 million on a player and give that player £200,000 per week.

All the Russian assets in London should be sold.
And any further money from Russia blocked.
It’s highly immoral for our capital city of London to be the place where Russians wash their dirty money.

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I suppose you could argue Russian money creates jobs and has a major impact on our economy .

How many jobs has Abramovic created at Chelsea ?

Probably hundreds given before he arrived Chelsea existed somewhere between the old first division and the second .

They were certainly no stranger to Oakwell in the 80's .

Who doesn't want cheap gas for instance ?

As consumers we demand it and it's the same in other sectors .

Our lass shops on Amazon , on Friday night at 11pm she ordered herself some new headphones .

They were delivered at 7pm last night , she was obviously delighted but someone picked the item and delivered it at an unsociable time and probably aren't on a great wage and that's not even mentioning where they were manufactured .

You can buy a pair of jeans for a few quid today , it's a few quid for a reason and some exploitation of workers will be that reason but consumers buy them anyway .

Politicians are now proclaiming we have to wean ourselves off dependency to Russian gas and oil but the one thing I've learned over the years is that changing anything in this country is massively difficult and money talks the loudest .

Always has and always will .

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Originally Posted by animallittle3

I suppose you could argue Russian money creates jobs and has a major impact on our economy .

How many jobs has Abramovic created at Chelsea ?

Probably hundreds given before he arrived Chelsea existed somewhere between the old first division and the second .

They were certainly no stranger to Oakwell in the 80's .

Who doesn't want cheap gas for instance ?

As consumers we demand it and it's the same in other sectors .

Our lass shops on Amazon , on Friday night at 11pm she ordered herself some new headphones .

They were delivered at 7pm last night , she was obviously delighted but someone picked the item and delivered it at an unsociable time and probably aren't on a great wage and that's not even mentioning where they were manufactured .

You can buy a pair of jeans for a few quid today , it's a few quid for a reason and some exploitation of workers will be that reason but consumers buy them anyway .

Politicians are now proclaiming we have to wean ourselves off dependency to Russian gas and oil but the one thing I've learned over the years is that changing anything in this country is massively difficult and money talks the loudest .

Always has and always will .

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I’d simply ban them from every sporting event, tell the billionaires
If you own anything on these shores you’ll be taxed under UK tax law on worldwide assets and finally I would close borders to Russian tourists-the likelihood is them turning on each other. in the meantime special forces will likely be looking to assassinate putin. Putin will have seen Some of these sanctions coming-as thatcher did with strikes, storing coal and grassing it over to ensure there were years of supplies .

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Originally Posted by renno

I’d simply ban them from every sporting event, tell the billionaires
If you own anything on these shores you’ll be taxed under UK tax law on worldwide assets and finally I would close borders to Russian tourists-the likelihood is them turning on each other. in the meantime special forces will likely be looking to assassinate putin. Putin will have seen Some of these sanctions coming-as thatcher did with strikes, storing coal and grassing it over to ensure there were years of supplies .

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I'm guessing the reason for such as RA selling up could be the UK tax law changing if you own assets on these shores and being taxed on worldwide assets under our laws - I might be wrong!

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Originally Posted by renno

I’d simply ban them from every sporting event, tell the billionaires
If you own anything on these shores you’ll be taxed under UK tax law on worldwide assets and finally I would close borders to Russian tourists-the likelihood is them turning on each other. in the meantime special forces will likely be looking to assassinate putin. Putin will have seen Some of these sanctions coming-as thatcher did with strikes, storing coal and grassing it over to ensure there were years of supplies .

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On the other hand and I'm only speculating here but the Russian people with Putin gone could easily fall in to the hands of the extreme right wing and nationalism .

With the country possibly on its knees economically and it's people living on bread and water this could easily play out .

It's the fault of the foreigners with the right spin could very well convince the Russian people .

History tells us this is a possibility .