How Politics Hijacked Chelsea FC
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- čas přidán 13. 05. 2024
- Roman Abramovich revolutionized Chelsea. But the tools he utilized to lead this revolution are the same ones that ultimately led to the downfall of both him and the football club. This video essay delves deep into how Roman Abramovich amassed his fortune, how the oligarch employed this fortune to revolutionize Chelsea Football Club - and the football industry at large - and how it all unraveled during his final days as Chelsea owner.
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0:00 Introduction
2:00 How Roman Abramovich Made His Early Fortune
3:55 Roman Abramovich's Transformation of Chelsea
5:35 World Leaders, Football Fans, and Shady Money
7:20 Roman Abramovich and Vladimir Putin
9:40 How Abramovich's Politics Caught up to Chelsea
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The video: "Roman Abromovich schemed his way to wealth through the Russian oligarchy off the backs of thousands of hardworking and improvrished Russians, and was forced to sell when the same forces that got him into power got into hot water themselves"
The comments: "I feel soo bad for billionaire Abromovich for having to sell Chelsea🥺🥺"
Nigga that’s just capitalism. Being upset when a Russian does exactly what you did is the exact type of crybullying that is expected from westoids
What do you mean precisely when you say he made his money “off the backs of thousands of hardworking and impoverished Russians” ? How ?
Football fanatics can't pretend to care about the money being put into football. Long are the days of it representing the identity of some place with the teams being filled by their native sons. Also the anti-Putin oligarchs are somehow often worse having had more of a hand in the destructive schemes at the end of the Soviet Union like Khodorkovsky and Berezovsky who Abramovic was closely associated with.
It’s about how successful he made Chelsea. Under his leadership they actually won trophies. Majority of people don’t care about him personally. It’s about the club.
@@thespeculum785you must be special needs, so don’t worry about it pal. Just eat your Goldfish crackers and remember to wear your helmet when you go outside. Sad.
No other person in this century has impacted club football more than Abramovich. He changed the landscape forever.
For the worse.
What about Berlusconi
@@skp8748 obviously lol duh
@@skp8748the worse?, from whose perspective?
For the better
The weirdest past about this, UK is shouting human rights at his face while funding genocide in Gaza. Hypocrisy at best.
You know about the Balfour declaration? As sad as it is the UK has repeatedly sworn to protect Israel for some reason, very hypocritical.
I dont undrestand why ppl in the west supports ( t word ) ppl 💀
Pretty based ngl
It's not really genocide since the population is actually growing even larger than if Israel allowed development since once countries become wealthier, their fertility rates decline. It's a kind of wealth curse: you get the material things you want, but you are out bred by your poorer enemies. Even the cultural genocide accusations are dubious given Israel has intentionally made Palestine more traditional, more Muslim as opposed to letting it become more secular and modern which would naturally erode the former. I don't really care for Israel either
@TheThreatenedSwan why do you think the population is growing larger? Because from every other place, Palestinians are being herded and sent to the Gaza concentration camp. It's not that hard to see through the lies of Israel.
As a Chelsea fan you have no idea how much we loved Roman he cared for our club he saved our club from extinction and he gave us the foundations to make us the powerhouse we are now he never cared about money with our debt now our new owners dont have a clue about how to run a football club
WE ARE STILL WAITING FOR LEN BLAVATNIK’S WEALTH TO BE STOLEN FROM HIM. HIS HISTORY IS THE SAME AS ABRAMOVICH. THE ONLY DIFFERENCE IS ONE IS NOW AN AMERICAN CITIZEN WITH A BRITISH KNIGHTHOOD WHO ‘DONATES’ MONEY TO BRITISH HIGH SOCIETY INSTITUTES. PURE POLITICS AND NOTHING TO DO WITH MORALS.
Politics messed up Chelsea all rich billionaires have dark back stories but they’re not targeted because they’re not Russian ,English football federation did the club dirty
The greatest club owner. He laid the blue print on how to run a club to achieve greatness
Am not a Chelsea supporter but that guy was a cool dude… I like him he was like a fan … made sure Chelsea dominated
Not only the sanctions forced Abramovich to sell - Three (the Irish relecommunications company and then shirt sponsor of the club), Nike (the club's kit provider) as well as other sponsors and partners suspended their ties with Chelsea FC until Abramovich sold the club.
it was because western businesses were legally prohibited from doing business with Russians, as per the sanctions
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Speak Men’s English, not TikTok cant. You’re old enough now.
Speak men’s English, not TikTok cant. You’re old enough now to do so.
Roman Abramovich has done more for the UK than any government in recent memory.
He has provided jobs through Chelsea FC and even gave access to the club's resources to the NHS during the pandemic, despite not being allowed in the country since 2018.
He has Ukrainian roots, for goodness' sake; Roman has a Ukrainian grandmother, he was against the war, and was even poisoned for trying to bring peace when it first broke out.
The sanctions and seizure of assets he has faced have been nothing short of unjust, purely due to his Russian nationality.
A big lesson learned during this whole thing is that the UK government thinks they are above everyone; there is no fairness. If they want to seize your assets based on alleged speculation, they will, no questions asked. They criticise the Kremlin for being authoritarian, but where is the democracy in this approach? They are literally doing the same thing.
If there were concerns about Roman and his money, why accept it in the first place? The treatment Roman received is a clear case of double standards and government hypocrisy.
I think you have a great point. Even this video essay has a lot of doubtful 'facts'. Like a Russian hating Liberal spewing what has been placed before him to read. I see no references for outside verification. Such a shame!
How many jobs did Roman really create? A few dozen? A hundred? You're making it sound like he is singlehandedly responsible for reviving the UK economy. If Chelsea never existed and there was another PL club to take their spot, there would be nearly an equal number of jobs created from that other club having PL stature. All of those security people on part time contracts for Chelsea games would be there for QPR games instead. Horrible argument.
Roman made his money off of Russian oligarch ties to Putin. Roman was the largest proprietor of the steel industry and is a literal billionaire off the back of thousands of working class people across Russia and across the world. I've seen the working conditions of one of his former mills in the US and it is no fairy tale. He can be against the war all he wants in name but he only is who he is today because of his ties to Putin.
As for "why accept it in the first place?" That is a question for the Premier League. Their Owners and Directors Test is brazenly about the sustainability of profit rather than any ethical reasons. As a literal oligarch, Roman was always guaranteed to be in the black from an accounting perspective. Same goes for the Saudis - they are printing money so whats the issue!? The PL accepted them without any regard for ethics.
I won't disagree with the UK government thinking they're above everything. The West in general has the power and influence to act like they care about a select few issues. But it is sad to see so many regular people stand up for a despotic billionaire who doesn't give a shit about you.
Those without standards always create double standards. That is what Western governments are
Let everything cool down and expect a massive law suits against people in power at them time. Everything those guys did was illegal back in 2022.
WE ARE STILL WAITING FOR LEN BLAVATNIK’S WEALTH TO BE STOLEN FROM HIM. HIS HISTORY IS THE SAME AS ABRAMOVICH. THE ONLY DIFFERENCE IS ONE IS NOW AN AMERICAN CITIZEN WITH A BRITISH KNIGHTHOOD WHO ‘DONATES’ MONEY TO BRITISH HIGH SOCIETY INSTITUTES. PURE POLITICS AND NOTHING TO DO WITH MORALS.
UK really has no standing at all to talk about human rights supporting israel, but roman abramovich is not a good person lol
Enzo: Bad Spending Habit, Mudryk: Questionable Transfer. U really understood football. 👏
It is sad to see them like this 😢.
Great video as always.
Thank you! 🙏🏽
Is it really that sad? I mean first of all every club goes through bad times and some bad times can be really bad. And second of all, Chelsea’s “great times” were only possible because of inconceivable amounts of money which Abramovich only had because of countless and consistent corruption that ultimately has impoverished the average citizen of Russia. When you take the context of Chelsea’s success can you really be that sad that they are over?
@@VilladsBk Funny thing that success in football is correlated to money spending and that is the rule there are some exceptions but it is rare.
@@WAD528 well that depends on a lot of things. When there were salary caps on player contracts there was way more competition and the correlation between money and success was way smaller. Now, yes you’re right but Chelsea’s spending was historical and groundbreaking so it is kind of misleading
Craziest part about abramovich post Chelsea is realising that he had always owned Vitesse, it was always a running joke about why Chelsea had players go there on loan but it turns out that he secretly owned them as well and used them as a perfect loan spot for any of the young products who needed to go out
bro your content is gonna explode one day its so well polished. Keep it up
Thank you! 🙏🏽
Chelsea really miss Roman.........he's the greatest premier league owner !! He quickly sussed out exactly how to run a v sucessful football club !!
Great video with great research ❤
Love from Sri Lanka
Thank you! 😁🤍
Coming from rural eastern Ukraine I remember being a kid in the 90s seeing on the news all these stories of Europe becoming so involved with Russian oligarchs and Putin, who made destitute millions of people I remember my father saying "they don't know who they are getting involved with"
With the help of America and Nato you could become the next Libya or Syria.
Good times ahead for you.
No with help of nato and usa if home country isn't against the usa then the country becomes developed happened in East Europe and asia@@robertely686
If his lucky Iran or Iraq @@robertely686
Ukranian acting like Ukraine isn't just a worse more corrupt version of Russia. Go back to your rural hole.
As a Chelsea fan since 1996 I always feared that
The Abramovich era would end badly & so it has it just took a hell of a lot longer than I personally thought it would to happen but happen in the end it did.
Rimes might be bad for us now buy christ we have see a hell of a lot worse times back in the late 80's early 90's we nearly lost The Bridge all together & Chelsea F.C would of went with it.
As my Dad always say about football everything comes in cycles
Liverpool where on top
Manchester United where on top
Blackburn Rovers had a brief spell at the top
Arsenal went undefeated for a season
Chelsea had a spell of winning many trophies
Manchester City have been very successful of late & at some point myb
Newcastle United will have a spell as top dogs or someone else.
I can remember in
the 90's Real Madrid did not win much for a long period & in the early
00's before Messi came along Barcelona went
4 seasons without wining anything at all.
Look at Milan
in the 90's Inter did not win much.
Aston.Villa & Hamburg where successful in the
80's
We Chelsea might be terrible now but we still had some fantastic times & some day we will rise again.
No Surrender
we are are Chelsea till the grave.
Roman is better than any politicians in America, British, Canada etc and beyond, so no amount of hate speech directed to him will change my love for him, I gave my son a Russia name because of Roman Abrahamovic
He owned a football club.
You are so very underrated I love the football content but I feel like you should branch out more, you are like Tarantino with those videos.
Thank you! 😁🙏🏽 And I’ll definitely consider it, I’m just trying to build a community and football videos come easier to me as the sport is one of my passions.
amazing work as always 👏🏼
Thank you Kenny! 🙏🏽
Wow great video. This video alone made me like and subscribe. Keep doing what you’re doing and don’t stop because it is working
Thank you so much! 😁🙏🏽
I like your channel very much. Keep up the good work man.
Thank you! 😁🙏🏽
Will always love Roman
Quality vid, destined for success
Thank you! 🙏🏽
Your content is Dope ! New Subscriber Alexander !
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Fire video as usual 🔥
Thank you Ivan! 🙏🏽
class video! keep it up
Thank you! 🙏🏽
Seriously, you make fantastic videos... with the regular uploads I can see this channel having a mil subscribers by the end of next year. In my opinion, I think you should branch out of just talking about football(COYS!!!!!!), your first video was amazing. I love your football videos, I just think with your style of storytelling and editing videos on *random topics* like space or politics would be fantastic. Anyways I'll watch regardless, but dude you have something that makes me keep coming to your videos. Filmesque>
Thank you! I’ll consider it. ☺️
@@watchalexander GOAT
Great video lad
Thank you! 🙏🏽
GREATEST OWNER IN THE HISTORY OF THE PREM ❤
Banger as usual
Thank you 🙏🏽
Hey man, could you list the sources for the visuals you used? There's scenes of a show or movie that you keep using in this video that looks really cool and I can't figure out its name.
I’ll try put together a list, but for now can you reply with the timestamps and I’ll tell you what the show/film is? 😊
I could recognise it in 1:53-1:58, 2:04-2:07, 3:31-3:37 and 3:49-3:55.
@@numederomanRed Sparrow
@@watchalexander Thanks a lot! Great work as always.
That was real ROMAN EMPIRE btw
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Abromavich isn't a bad guy. In contrast, he added a lot to the football lanscape. Chelsea will miss him.
what are the movies used?
11:45 what movie?
Great video
Thank you! ☺️
What is the name of the movie at time 0:38
American Hustle
great video, what is the name of the movie at 7:36
Red Sparrow!
I hope he’s doing well and managing to keep his spirits up
banger after banger
Thank you. 🙏🏽
roman abramovich
was born to jewish refugees fighting for survival in siberia.
siberia is the coldest, most remote area of russia.
it is also the most depressing,
with the highest mortality rate via suicide in the country.
to add to this,
his mother passes away early in his life.
his father dies three years later.
roman is forced to live with his uncle.
he dreams of a life outside the harshness of siberia,
and enlists in the army.
it is at this point
where he gets his first taste of POWER.
his first little hustle was to siphon gas FROM the army, then sell it back to them for a profit.
absolute G shit.
this makes him super popular among the generals
because they believe they're getting a great deal on the gas.
as you can imagine for someone dreaming of the billions,
he wasnt content with this.
he managed to divert a train that was going to moscow using fake documents,
and got the driver to take it to riga, lithuania.
here, he sold the diesel and became a successful trader.
he also sold cigarettes, tyres, toy dolls, anything.
the perfect entrepreneur archetype.
at this point in russia's history (1980s), it is rife with lawlessness.
businessmen walk with a target on their backs.
no one realises it at the time,
but this difficult period is about to change the course of russian history forever.
mikhail gorbachev introduces perestroika.
a policy aiming to modernise every aspect of the soviet union,
and open it up to the rest of the world.
roman seizes this chance and puts all his toy doll money into the oil and gas industry.
he quickly establishes himself as one of the country's most prosperous oil traders.
is he content yet?
NO.
the fire isn't hot enough yet.
he meets legendary russian oligarch boris berezovsky to pitch him a dastardly plan.
boris was a powerful oligarch who controlled key areas of the russian economy,
including state media.
the plan between roman and boris was to rig an auction
to buy the state oil company Sibneft for a fraction of its true value,
then build it up to become one of the biggest oil companies in the world.
boris uses his connections and,
through sheer government corruption and strategic bribery,
they acquire Sibneft for a fraction of what its really worth.
they 100x it within a decade, all at the expense of the state.
this move catapults roman into the highest echelons of russian wealth.
as putin came to power,
he declared war on the oligarchs.
roman, as one of russia's wealthiest and most powerful men,
knows he needs to tread carefully.
roman manages to charm his way into the inner circle of the kremlin,
and becomes one of putin's closest advisors.
roman doesn't shy away from the influence that this gives him,
and he supports all of putin's goals, even if it means taking immense risks.
one of his biggest plays was acquiring russian oil company Slavneft.
the chinese were offering double the money of anyone else,
so you know what roman did?
on the day of the auction,
the chinese negotiator was kidnapped and taken hostage until the auction is finished.
with no other bidders in sight, roman wins.
he acquires Slavneft for a bargain price.
once again, his gamble pays off handsomely.
great power, influence, wealth, all comes at a cost.
there are snakes in this grass.
shortly after buying english football club chelsea fc,
roman is stabbed in the back by one of his closest mentors,
boris berezovsky.
boris sues him in a high-profile lawsuit
which brings to light his past in russia and how he fraudulently came to power.
but,
since roman now lives in england,
russian law doesn't apply to him.
the case is thrown out,
and boris' body is found hanging from a rope not long after losing the court case.
roman abramovich's life is a perfect example - like the lives of great men before him -
of why you should restlessly roll the dice over and over again
with no regard for people, communities, or nations.
the game of life is only won by the most ruthless.
survival of the fittest.
the glazing is unreal
He pays for illegal settlements in the west bank
Holy shit that doesn’t even sound real. Sounds like a movie.
@@jacktheripper5661it is my dear 😂
@@jacktheripper5661 Russia in the 1990s sounds like a movie in general. The stories you could tell about the rise of the oligarchs and the wild chaos in Russia’s underworld is unmatched.
We in the west have oligarchs. Ex: Duke of Westminister/ George Sorros/ I could go on. So let us not forget that world wide: there are the very rich / the middle classes/ and the very poor.
Finally 🙏
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The Club still owe him £1.5 Billion 😂
Roman Abramovich said in this Statement that he's written off the Debts. Chelsea was Debt Free when ClearLake bought the Club.
This is simply not true and you should reject your statement.
One of the best owners ever. Its sad what the British government did.
Yes seeing as the Tory party was receiving Russian money as well and then there was the Johnson Russian links as well.
Roman Abramovic changed the landscape of football and maybe sport forever
The first video that didn't take low-hanging fruit and actually discussed the issue.
There are VERY LOUD Chelsea fans who pretend to forget this ever happened.
Awesome video dude.
Thank you so much! 😁🙏🏽
One of the biggest day light robbery from England well done
The sad part of it all Abramovich is not even a bad dude he just became best friends with the wrong guy 😑😑😞😞
I heard he kidnapped a Chinese negotiator who was about to outbid him on an oil deal and killed some guy who was suing him.
He ruthless capitalist. You have to have a bad side if you're going to be rich businessman
Yeah that's the sad part 😂. Poor billionaire nice guy
If he wasn't "best friends with the wrong guy" he wouldn't have been so rich in the first place. So his wealth is intrinsically linked to the success and failings of Putin and he can't just opt out when it suits him
"Wrong guy" is subjective.
I don't see them seizing US teams over their support in Israel.
How about banning Israel from the world cup just like Russia.
Saudis aren't the "wrong guy" either for them.
6:44 Have you ever looked in the Ethics and Morals of the UK itself?
UK's history in Iran, regime change etc. because of Oil exploration? or more recently Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan.
The Hypocrisy stinks.
It is hypocritical. I mentioned in the video that Parliament only began to care about Abramovich’s ties to Putin and his status as an oligarch once tensions escalated with Russia due to their invasion of Ukraine. If it were truly about morality, the British government would never have implemented the Golden Visa scheme and allowed him to become such a prominent figure in the first place. All the governmental parties mentioned and shown, from Saudi Arabia to Qatar to Russia to Britain, are morally questionable in some way.
@@watchalexander fair enough, appreciate the response 👍
@@LegendNinja41 NP 😊🙏🏽
Corrupt third world countries are corrupt and poorly governed and wastefully use their resources. The worst global action the West takes are justified by liberal incentive structures, yet the people who constantly whine about the "oppressed" (read, owe their technological development to Europe) developing countries love all those liberal incentive structures and unfairly malign colonialism which was only a net benefit to the countries being colonized.
Chelsea when they had Zola i really respected but lets be fr its not coincidence that Chelseas trophy cabinet got fucking loaded when Roman started pumping his cash into the club same thing with City
Politics and sport never mixed well
Rare breed of football climb owners that fans loved
american hustle is a great movie that was rlly funny btw 😂
I love it 😂
KING ROMAN FOREVER ❤
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It's all hypocrisy from some ppl the British govt and their hate for Chelsea FC, since some of them are United and Arsenal fans and Abromovich ended their EPL and English football dominance. When they sanctioned him and forces him to sell Chelsea FC, their he was providing material support for Putin because his company produced the steel used in manufacturing Russia materian tanks and etc.... but the British and major European countries were still buying Russian oil and gas... and continued the multi-billion dollar pipeline project that supplied oil from Russia even during the Russia vs Ukraine war... so my question is, if British and major European countries were still buying Russian oil and gas... and continued the multi-billion dollar pipeline project that supplied oil from Russia during the war, is not also considered providing material support to Russia... also the sanction that forced Abramovich to sell Chelsea, does it not violate FIFA law that says Football shouldn't be mixed with politics???
Roman 💙
How we miss you
I just thought about this b4 getting here England want this chelsea we have today
The days when Russia was the big baddie without unnecessary wars😭💔
Where’s that £2.5billion currently situated I wonder??
Chelsea and it's buyers needs his forgiveness for the betterments of the team if not the worst is ahead
Never forget what they did to Roman and Chelsea.
#nevermisses
😛 Thank you Sammy! 🙏🏽
Ya
i clicked on this video expecting to be horrified by misinformation...but this seems pretty right to me!
something you didn't explore--which is reasonable, given that there's a dearth of resources that lay it out plainly--is how abramovich not only had a "close association" with putin but played an incredibly important role in contributing to russia's war itself.
for example, you mention how abramovich "helped" putin bid for the 2018 world cup. without abramovich's money and more importantly how abramovich's ownership of chelsea provided legitimacy for russia in the football world, it's doubtful that russia would have ever won the bid over england. and it's astonishing to me how everyone seems to have forgotten that russia DID host a world cup while actively occupying ukraine and bombing syria, and only four years before the full-scale invasion--or at least the impact of it seems to have been swept under the rug. not only did the 2018 world cup, like the 2014 olympics, create the domestic conditions of nationalism and government favor necessary to unleash and drag on war in the first place, but it also succeeded in rehabilitating russia's image after the 2014 invasion of ukraine and 2015 collaboration with assad in destroying syria, as well as making it easier for other countries--whether football-loving like england or football-ignoring like america--to appease and ignore russian aggression. everyone understands that saudi arabia uses football to make the rest of the world ignore its human rights abuses and so forth, but we all seem to ignore that russia has again and again used sports-related soft power to excuse its aggression. and all i'm describing in this comment is JUST how abramovich and specifically abramovich owning chelsea contributed to war through the world cup--so much also applies to how just a russian oligarch owning a massive club was in itself a soft power tool that russia used to wage war. and it's a shame that it's not yet been all written out. i'll do it one day, but i'll never be able to make people--especially chelsea fans, who i have to deal with constant calls and chants for abramovich's return from, as i too am a very cursed chelsea fan--understand. it's a damn damn shame.
here's some articles on the world cup issue, both on abramovich's role in the bid process and the competition's role in the war.
www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news/2018-world-cup-bid-exmi6-officers-found-corruption-while-spying-on-russia-9894308.html
"Roman Abramovich, the chairman of Chelsea FC, was personally given the task of using his wealth and status in world football to bring the 2018 World Cup to Russia, according to a 13-page dossier compiled by reporters for The Sunday Times. 'Roman was absolutely integral to the Russian bid,' an ex-MI6 source told the newspaper. 'I remember seeing him attending private meetings with [the Fifa chief] Sepp Blatter in South Africa and thinking to myself, ‘We don’t do that, so we are f***ed’.'"
www.theguardian.com/world/2010/dec/05/abramovich-putin-world-cup
"Roman Abramovich, the billionaire owner of Chelsea football club, is to take a leading role in preparations for World Cup 2018 after Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin indicated he should "open his wallet" and help pay for the championship."
www.nytimes.com/2018/06/07/opinion/sunday/world-cup-fifa-corruption-russia.html
[context: russia bribed fifa officials to win the bid] "An attempt by FIFA itself to audit the bid after the fact was stymied when it was discovered that a football foundation linked to Mr. Abramovich, Mr. Putin’s oligarch pal, destroyed the Russia bid team’s computers."
www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-russia-putin-worldcup-20180710-story.html
"The Russian soccer team may be out of the World Cup, but the Kremlin is winning when it comes to making over its global image. . . . 'It’s good to be seen as the center of the world for a while,' said Mark Galeotti, a senior research fellow at the Institute of International Relations in Prague in the Czech Republic, and an expert in Russian security and politics. 'The World Cup has been rather successful in terms of being a soft power win, not just in terms of the fanfare, but also the coverage in press that says, ‘Russia isn’t such a horrible place after all.'' . . . Even the latest allegations against the Kremlin, such as the death of a British woman who came into contact with the Soviet-made nerve agent Novichok, seem to be drowned out by World Cup euphoria."
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/england-belgium-world-cup-score-russia-kaliningrad-stadium-fans-adnan-januzaj-a8422161.html
this article contains various quotes on how perceptions of russia changed after foreigners visited for the world cup, i.e.: "'It’s all yaw fault, you know, the scaremongrin,' says Les Gasson, 60, pointing a finger in my chest, before smiling broadly: 'Vulgergrad, Nishhny Nowgrad, Kalangrad, Russia has been fucking brilliant.'"
www.hrw.org/news/2018/07/13/russias-bloody-world-cup
"FIFA’s flagship tournament could have done something to relieve the worst human rights crisis in Russia since the Soviet era, but instead the football organization condoned many human rights violations, undermining its own policies. Russian President Vladimir Putin emerged as the big winner, using the games to sportswash his rule - to legitimize it by hosting a sporting mega-event."
www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Global/Issues/2018/07/16/World-Cup/Infantino-Russia-Perception.aspx
"Infantino said that the tournament transformed 'the perception that the world has about Russia.' He added, 'We did a good job together.' Putin responded in English, 'Thank you, Mr. President, for your kind words.' Putin told an audience of former football players including Brazil’s Ronaldo and Marcel Desailly as well as Russian government officials that he was 'sad that the tournament was almost over but he also noted that it had helped improve the country’s image.' Putin: 'We cannot help but feel sad that this spectacular football festival, which had given us so many happy moments, vivid impressions and new friends, is almost over. Myths and stereotypes have been dispelled.'"
www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/football-has-for-too-long-been-in-putins-pocket-its-time-for-reform/?
"One wonders quite what Gianni Infantino, president of FIFA, now makes of the punchline to his speech at the opening ceremony of the 2018 World Cup. Standing alongside President Putin, he quipped, 'As of today, for one month, football will conquer Russia. And from Russia, it will conquer the world.' Of course, precisely the reverse was true. One must also wonder what Infantino has done with the Order of Friendship medal that Putin bestowed upon him in May 2019."
and, of course, how chelsea paved the way for russia's infiltration of football in many other ways (same article):
"Other oligarchs have been allowed to take some of their money and buy into foreign clubs and the social and political circles they make available, uncontested by national football authorities and leagues. The pioneer was Roman Abramovich, who bought Chelsea in 2003, but he has been joined by, among others, Alisher Usmanov, first a shareholder at Arsenal, now at Everton; Dmitry Rybolovlev, the owner of Monaco and Club Brugge; and Ivan Savvidis, president of Thessaloniki’s PAOK. Similarly, Russia’s big state companies have all not only generously sponsored domestic football, but have gone international, too, with energy firm Gazprom sponsoring FIFA (the world’s governing body), UEFA (which oversees European football), Chelsea, Germany’s Schalke 04 and Serbia’s Red Star Belgrade."
"Football has already done its work, helping to conjure up the illusion of Putin’s Russia as a pacific member of the global community, for which many were handsomely rewarded."
if you're curious on how abramovich's ownership of chelsea helped russia have very strong influence over england (other than the obvious), this article is a great one:
www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/03/28/how-putins-oligarchs-bought-london
And that's the story of how one small club in London was bought with state-owned wealth and turned to a noisy side.
Strap on your seatbelt Chels Chals or whatever they call themselves, you're in for a long ride down your lower league 😂
By the time Todd's money pot gets exhausted and those 18 years contracts syphon your club, you'll be lead back to where you belong.
Somethings said was garbage...
He changed footballer forever
All the 'concerned' parties combined to stick it to Chelsea FC.
It was jealousy and avarice combined, by the UK government and influential rivals, that brought Chelsea down.
Before the Ukraine crisis, it was only Britain sqeezing Abramovich on UK residence visa; when there had been no problem for a decade or more.
"We want to be shown how you make your money!"
Is a question that the Russian/Israel $Multi-Billionaire Abramovich, chose not to answer.
Then all the rivals pitched in to the 'friend of Vladimir Putin', (Vampire dictator of Russia), to wreck Chelsea Football Club and snuff out their source of funding, which bought much of their success and filled to bursting Stamford Bridge home stadium trophy cabinets, with quality silverware pots.
Over 19 years, Chelsea became a world recognised brand on the field of play, competing and winning the corporate sponsorship $Billions too.
Quality >>>>Quantity
He did so much for Chelsea he loved that club so much
Give him back his club.
LFC man here and they stole his CLUB with baseless allegations and B.S.... but until they find the artefact buried in that building somewhere or give him back his club... then the black magic will see CFC do NOTHING no matter the manager 😂😂😂
Let's hope for the sake of football and its better future, all illicit financing and bribery allegations (transfer of Hazard etc.) during the Roman era at Stamford Bridge are thoroughly investigated.
Even if inducted it would be very unfair to charge Cfc under clearlake capital. Roman have no ties to the club anymore.
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I miss Abramowich
Chelsea will never be successful again
And i like Chelsea
The American owner thinks it’s North America and you can spend such a big amount on many players
Blood Momey premier league
Eh
Yet it is fine that Newcastle is owned by the Saudis who have been committing genocide in Yemen for years.
What did he do wrong ? Apart from being labeled an Oligarch? He
Brought happiness to millions of us fans ,,,,then hes forced out over a war that has very little to do with him , Then forced to sell to An American with An even bigger idea of how to waste money and send our club dropping down the league like a stone and people wonder why us chelsea fans feel hard done by?,,,,,,,
I wouldn't mind but its not like the saudi owners are whiter than white? Bribing seb platter for the world cup in Qatar',?
UK talking about human right? 😂😂😂😂 ahahahhahahahhahhahahah
His dead now
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Poor jewish tycoon. I feel so sorry for him. All the money that he stole from Russian people and invested in UK. Such a shame!
so surprised you managed to dig out all the info. it’s a tradition in Russia to spend and keep your money in Europe but especially Britain. 😂 when Putin got the power, he had a meeting with EVERY Russian oligarch to kiss the hand, so to speak. Those who did, gave him money and support, those he didn’t got killed or put behind bars. So Roman was one of the lucky ones up until Putin decided to invade Ukraine and ruin a lot of lives.
After watching this video my respect for Roman has increased twofold
Pure propaganda 👎
He is a crook
what goes around, must come around. Chelski was in bed with the devil and the current doldrums were inevitable!! Karma and all that!
The good karma that Manchester City achieves with their virtuous owners is a good example of this.
@@robertely686Not the end of the story: 155 FFP charges.
No hijacked though. Laying in bed with russian oligarchs comes with risk, it was always gonna end this way
Chelsea deserve everything that is happening, and this is just the beginning. The same thing will happen with Manchester City in a few years. This is not winning; this is cheating. Sports without rules are not sports; they are politics.
glad to see chelshit in this current state 😁
Never compromising quality of your videos. Always looking forward to your next work. 🩷
Thank you Milli. 🙏🏽🤍
Please come back Don Roman as soon as you can. Save our Chels from these Clown owners that have ruined the club. You were the best and loved the club. The British government robbed you of your rightful property so fix a way that your boy can buy the club back in the future. UTC 💪💯💙🫡
They did Abramovic dirty. Chelsea was his baby and he did so much for them.