A few hours after the English media reported that Chelsea were afraid of declaring bankruptcy and that “the big teams are already blacking out for prey”, the Athletic and Telegraph websites published new details about the events of recent days.
The British government has imposed severe sanctions on Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich, but these are also directly affecting Chelsea despite the fact that the oligarch has announced that the club is up for sale. Although Nike is expected to continue the contract with Chelsea, which is estimated at 900 million pounds over 15 years, from 2016 until the end of the contract, but senior club officials fear the possibility that the team will not be able to show up for the games – and in fact go bankrupt even if not financially.
The Telegraph revealed tonight (Friday) that although the current license allows the team to exist even while Roman Abramovich’s assets are frozen, many severe restrictions have been placed on expenses – even those related to security, and hence Chelsea fear they will have to close stands in addition to the fact That it is prohibited from selling tickets for team games and allowing entry only to subscribers who have purchased a season ticket in advance. For Chelsea, there is a real concern that the team will not be able to meet the restrictions imposed on it if it wants to play, and the violation of sanctions is not something the club can afford.
Among other things, Chelsea claim that it must obtain a permit to sell tickets for the team games in order to maintain the club’s regular activities and the club also claimed that spending £ 20,000 on travel to team games does not even cover the trip to Norwich yesterday, in a 1-3 win, and the team tries Get ready for next week’s game in France against Lille, knowing that if they advance to the Champions League quarter-finals they could face a rival from a more distant country and then the team will have to give up a number of players on the trip until there are new understandings against the British government. A number of the club members’ business credit cards have already been blocked and the group is not even able to pay for the purchase of fuel for the group bus, an event that probably happened upon returning from Norwich.
In addition, Chelsea were told that as part of the new restrictions, the club is not allowed to invest more than £ 500,000 on a home game, but the club has already presented documents that the cost of hosting a home game in the league ranges from £ 800,000 to £ 1 million. That they seek assistance to enable them to pay the stewards, security guards and caterers at the stadium, otherwise the public will not have all the accompanying conditions available and it may even be necessary to close stands.
Chelsea claim that in the current situation the club was punished for no wrong in its palm, because owner Roman Abramovich also announced the sale of the team and that the main punishers are club employees, players and fans who have nothing to do with Vladimir Putin or the Russian government.
As you know, both the club shop and the hotel near Stamford Bridge Stadium have already been closed until further notice and Chelsea have even been banned from selling game plans, so the club have no option to put in money and all this while the main sponsor “THREE” has already announced its desire to suspend the contract until new message. Even stadium tours are forbidden until further notice.