Chelsea FC face new questions over how Roman Abramovich funded success
www.theguardian.com
Leaked files reveal secret payments that may have breached football’s strict ‘financial fair play’ rules
    • qu1x0t1cZ@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I’m sure I read somewhere that relative to transfer fees at the time Chelsea were bankrolled more than City.

      • XxAbsurdumxX@alien.topBEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Yes. Adjusted for inflation, the amount Chelsea spent under Abromovich is insane even compared to City.

        • sewious@alien.topBEnglish
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          1 year ago

          I thought the issue is that when Chelsea got taken over, what they did wasn’t “against the rules”

          • Caesar_Aurelianus@alien.topBEnglish
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            1 year ago

            There weren’t any FFP rules.

            Earlier the 3 foreigner rule made clubs rely on regional players so they couldn’t just splash money all over.

            If there weren’t that rule then Berlusconi would’ve bought the whole Dutch national team

      • OnlyOneSnoopy@alien.topBEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Our funds came openly and directly via the owner, there were no FFP issues to try and skirt around at the time. City are funded by fake sponsors in an attempt to bypass FFP.

        • trevthedog@alien.topBEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Did you read the article? Most of these off-book payments are from 2010-2017, after FFP had been introduced.