The Thing About Chelsea FC Is That Roman Abramovich Is Throwing Too Much Money At It
February 8, 2009
As I watch the saga with Chelsea FC unravel – another manager, Luiz Filipe Scolari, sacked, with a huge pay out – I realise that Roman Abramovich still does not get it: money is not enough to build a strong team that can play creative, intelligent football and deliver not only at home but in Europe. Abramovich is a typical representative of Russian big business: evasive, uncommunicative, uninspiring, with little regard for other people and with a firm belief that he can achieve anything by outspending others.Richard Branson this man ain’t. The latest estimate puts Ambramovich’s overall investment into Chelsea at around £710 million. And that is not even including the pay out to Scolari which would be about £8 million and the players’ wage bill for this year that...
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