Clubs for sale....

peteblue · August 26, 2018

So with the news that Chelsea is now up for sale for £2Bn, who is next.......

larbert toffee · August 26, 2018

Clickbait title for golfers.

dublinbluenose · August 26, 2018

Every club is up for sale for the right price. Nobody is buying Chelsea for 2bn.

roydo · August 26, 2018

dublinbluenose said:
Every club is up for sale for the right price. Nobody is buying Chelsea for 2bn.

He apparently turned that amount down, and United are valued at more than £4bn.........

dublinbluenose · August 26, 2018

roydo said:
He apparently turned that amount down, and United are valued at more than £4bn.........

UTD possibly worthy of such a massive valuation but Chelsea need at least 1bn to develop Stamford Bridge on top of whatever the sale price would be. They've nowhere near the earning potential worldwide as Utd or even those loveable rogues across the park.

roydo · August 26, 2018

dublinbluenose said:
UTD possibly worthy of such a massive valuation but Chelsea need at least 1bn to develop Stamford Bridge on top of whatever the sale price would be. They've nowhere near the earning potential worldwide as Utd or even those loveable rogues across the park.

True. Personally, I wouldnt bother spending £1bn to get 20000 more seats anyrate.

degsy · August 26, 2018

dublinbluenose said:
Every club is up for sale for the right price. Nobody is buying Chelsea for 2bn.

Plus another billion for the new ground.

Armaghtoffee · August 26, 2018

It’s nice to think that Roman may sell to asset strippers who will swiftly return Chelsea to their rightful status as an unduly arrogant nothing club.

roydo · August 26, 2018

Armaghtoffee said:
It’s nice to think that Roman may sell to asset strippers who will swiftly return Chelsea to their rightful status as an unduly arrogant nothing club.

Would be interesting. I dont hold a candle for Chelsea, nor RA, but it cant be denied that he has reinvented the club.

A clueless Chinese bunch of investors paying well over the odds then focusing on sweating the asset till the inevitable implosion would be truly beautiful to see.

Armaghtoffee · August 26, 2018

roydo said:
Would be interesting. I dont hold a candle for Chelsea, nor RA, but it cant be denied that he has reinvented the club.

A clueless Chinese bunch of investors paying well over the odds then focusing on sweating the asset till the inevitable implosion would be truly beautiful to see.

It would be beautiful indeed @roydo

As a kid, my mate was a Chelsea fan because his oul fella was. We poked fun at him accordingly. He was Kerry Dixon and I was Graeme Sharpe when we had a kickabout.

For that reason alone I have watched Chelsea buy football but not get too annoyed as I saw my mate living the dream.

Now I hope someone drains the lake dry at Chelsea and Usmanov gives us our turn at the trough.

Simon Buttle · August 26, 2018

degsy said:
Plus another billion for the new ground.

There planned new ground is going to cost a lot more than a billion due to the fact they would need to pay to move part of the underground line including a station and buy up a load of the surrounding property in one of the most expensive areas of the capital, then there is the huge cost of the fact that to do what they want they need to dig quite deep into the ground. In terms of engineering it would make Spurs new stadium look like a cattle shed.

roydo · August 26, 2018

Armaghtoffee said:
It would be beautiful indeed @roydo

As a kid, my mate was a Chelsea fan because his oul fella was. We poked fun at him accordingly. He was Kerry Dixon and I was Graeme Sharpe when we had a kickabout.

For that reason alone I have watched Chelsea buy football but not get too annoyed as I saw my mate living the dream.

Now I hope someone drains the lake dry at Chelsea and Usmanov gives us our turn at the trough.

I remember that Kerry Dixon Chelsea side, (Div 2 in old money), getting walloped 3 1 by Bristol City, (Div 3 iirc) in a FA Cup tie many years ago. Always been a glamour club, for some reason, but seeing them back in their box would be ace.

Armaghtoffee · August 26, 2018

Simon Buttle said:
There planned new ground is going to cost a lot more than a billion due to the fact they would need to pay to move part of the underground line including a station and buy up a load of the surrounding property in one of the most expensive areas of the capital, then there is the huge cost of the fact that to do what they want they need to dig quite deep into the ground. In terms of engineering it would make Spurs new stadium look like a cattle shed.

Good enough reason to sell then, he has taken Chelsea as far as he can reasonably take them.

And of course also that he appears to be rapidly approaching persona non grata in the U.K.

Simon Buttle · August 26, 2018

Armaghtoffee said:
Good enough reason to sell then, he has taken Chelsea as far as he can reasonably take them.

And of course also that he appears to be rapidly approaching persona non grata in the U.K.

Oh i agree, the funding for said project would be astronomical, far more than what Spurs are paying, and it seems to be the reason the whole project has basically stalled because Abramovich said he was'nt going to fund it out of his own pocket, and that was before he got chucked out the country aswell.

Armaghtoffee · August 26, 2018

roydo said:
I remember that Kerry Dixon Chelsea side, (Div 2 in old money), getting walloped 3 1 by Bristol City, (Div 3 iirc) in a FA Cup tie many years ago. Always been a glamour club, for some reason, but seeing them back in their box would be ace.

Their decline is already visible, no champions league, revolving door of managers, no real movement on stadium.

Just as Alisher is nailed on for us (direct or indirect), there is definitely something going on at Stamford Bridge