Chelsea: Roman Abramovich will have transformed football

Virginie Phulpin 07:26, March 03, 2022

Chelsea is for sale.

Roman Abramovich confirmed yesterday that he is leaving the English club.

The reputed Russian billionaire close to Putin has been in turmoil in England since the start of the war.

So he decided to step down.

He leaves having considerably transformed football. 

It cannot be said that there was no money in football before Roman Abramovich.

But he was the absolute emblem of football business before giving ideas to others.

A+B proof that when you come to a club with bottomless reserves, you win.

The billionaire took over Chelsea in 2003. And from the start, he spent millions with the avowed aim of ruling England and Europe.

Before his arrival, Chelsea's heyday dated back to the 1950s. And with magic rubles, he turned them into a European ogre.

A title of champion of England from 2005, before winning 4 others.

It took him more patience to win the Champions League.

In this competition, money does not bring happiness instantly, PSG can talk about it.

But he succeeded.

For the first time in 2012,

and last season.

Roman Abramovich took Chelsea to another dimension.

And not just Chelsea.

It is by following his “model” with quotation marks that other billionaires, investment funds, states have got their hands on European clubs, especially English ones, and have also made them into winning machines.

If financial fair play exists, this UEFA rule to prevent clubs from spending more than they earn, it is partly, at the start, to counter Roman Abramovich and his bottomless pit.

Not sure it really worked.

If Chelsea are for sale for more than 3 billion euros today, it is because the parent company of the club has a debt of almost 2 billion towards Roman Abramovich.

He spent his time putting money back into the machine.

Roman Abramovich took Chelsea to another dimension.

And not just Chelsea.

It is by following his “model” with quotation marks that other billionaires, investment funds, states have got their hands on European clubs, especially English ones, and have also made them into winning machines.

If financial fair play exists, this UEFA rule to prevent clubs from spending more than they earn, it is partly, at the start, to counter Roman Abramovich and his bottomless pit.

Not sure it really worked.

If Chelsea are for sale for more than 3 billion euros today, it is because the parent company of the club has a debt of almost 2 billion towards Roman Abramovich.

He spent his time putting money back into the machine.

Roman Abramovich took Chelsea to another dimension.

And not just Chelsea.

It is by following his “model” with quotation marks that other billionaires, investment funds, states have got their hands on European clubs, especially English ones, and have also made them into winning machines.

If financial fair play exists, this UEFA rule to prevent clubs from spending more than they earn, it is partly, at the start, to counter Roman Abramovich and his bottomless pit.

Not sure it really worked.

If Chelsea are for sale for more than 3 billion euros today, it is because the parent company of the club has a debt of almost 2 billion towards Roman Abramovich.

He spent his time putting money back into the machine.

It is by following his “model” with quotation marks that other billionaires, investment funds, states have got their hands on European clubs, especially English ones, and have also made them into winning machines.

If financial fair play exists, this UEFA rule to prevent clubs from spending more than they earn, it is partly, at the start, to counter Roman Abramovich and his bottomless pit.

Not sure it really worked.

If Chelsea are for sale for more than 3 billion euros today, it is because the parent company of the club has a debt of almost 2 billion towards Roman Abramovich.

He spent his time putting money back into the machine.

It is by following his “model” with quotation marks that other billionaires, investment funds, states have got their hands on European clubs, especially English ones, and have also made them into winning machines.

If financial fair play exists, this UEFA rule to prevent clubs from spending more than they earn, it is partly, at the start, to counter Roman Abramovich and his bottomless pit.

Not sure it really worked.

If Chelsea are for sale for more than 3 billion euros today, it is because the parent company of the club has a debt of almost 2 billion towards Roman Abramovich.

He spent his time putting money back into the machine.

and have also made them into winning machines.

If financial fair play exists, this UEFA rule to prevent clubs from spending more than they earn, it is partly, at the start, to counter Roman Abramovich and his bottomless pit.

Not sure it really worked.

If Chelsea are for sale for more than 3 billion euros today, it is because the parent company of the club has a debt of almost 2 billion towards Roman Abramovich.

He spent his time putting money back into the machine.

and have also made them into winning machines.

If financial fair play exists, this UEFA rule to prevent clubs from spending more than they earn, it is partly, at the start, to counter Roman Abramovich and his bottomless pit.

Not sure it really worked.

If Chelsea are for sale for more than 3 billion euros today, it is because the parent company of the club has a debt of almost 2 billion towards Roman Abramovich.

He spent his time putting money back into the machine.

that's because the club's parent company is almost 2 billion in debt to Roman Abramovich.

He spent his time putting money back into the machine.

that's because the club's parent company is almost 2 billion in debt to Roman Abramovich.

He spent his time putting money back into the machine. 

Roman Abramovich spent 19 years at Chelsea, but he remains something of a mystery in English football

It has revolutionized everything but it remains an enigma.

A paradox.

The ultimate symbol of money and football, and at the same time the one who signs "Roman" at the bottom of his press release to announce the sale of Chelsea.

Public enemy number 1 in England, close to Vladimir Putin, but at the same time the one who will not receive a penny from the sale of his club since he announced that he would donate everything to the victims of the war in Ukraine.

A great communication blow for a man who has communicated so little for 19 years.

Roman Abramovich is the one who tipped football into the world of bottomless boxes, but who was still an owner whose face we knew.

Chelsea was a one man club.

We've never seen that anywhere else.

The one who proclaims his love for Chelsea, and who says at the same time that if it were to be done again,

he might not do it again.

In short, it's the end of an era, but we don't really know which one...