16 Nov 2025 10:04:41
A question for ED01, a few posts on here recently about Chelsea being sanctioned again, any truth in this or is it just conjecture from fellow posters?
{Ed001's Note - I think they are referring to the ongoing investigation into the finances under Roman, which you have yet to be sanctioned for.}
16 Nov 2025 16:44:48
Thanks ED01, do you think we will face serious sanctions because of what happened under Roman?
{Ed001's Note - the offences are very serious, so they are going to have to do something, but obviously there are mitigating circumstances, with it being a previous owner. Judging by how that is dealt with in the EFL, I would expect a serious sanction.}
16 Nov 2025 17:20:58
Thanks ED01 for your reply, It looks like Roman may of really created a huge problem then for the club and the current owners. As a Chelsea fan I have always been very grateful for everything Roman did for us but what is your view of him and his reign at our club looking in from the outside?
{Ed001's Note - he pays for genocide. He was a murderous gangster. Detest the man, sorry. He is everything that is wrong with society right now, him and his ilk, Musk and the like. But that is not the club's fault, and I doubt any club owner in the modern era is much different to be honest. You don't get rich enough to buy a Premier League club by being a good guy.}
17 Nov 2025 09:48:32
Thanks ED01, do you think the current owners did the right thing in self reporting what they found under Roman's time in charge even though it may well cost us a points deduction?
{Ed001's Note - they did the right thing morally, surely that should be all that matters?}
17 Nov 2025 11:49:53
Yes ED01, 100% agree with you and think it was correct for them to highlight the dodgy dealings under Roman. Hopefully the new owners self reporting the club will be taken into account when the penalties coming our way are handed out.
{Ed001's Note - they should be.}
17 Nov 2025 13:09:09
In my opinion the owners made the correct call on every level.
Once they found out they, again in my opinion, had little choice but to report immediately what they had discovered. Reporting it at a later date would probably have brought about a more severe sanction.
17 Nov 2025 13:14:28
EDOO1,
You are correct that it was the moral thing to do but let's be fair the idiots at the prem league and FA never picked it up and you wonder if they ever would have.
You just wonder what else is hoing on throughout the leagues that nobody knows about.
17 Nov 2025 22:10:43
Thanks for your input ED01, it is good to see our new owners doing the right thing by both our club and also the game in general. Well done to them.
{Ed001's Note - very welcome and I fully agree, it is one thing they have got totally right is their immediate reporting of the irregularities.}
19 Nov 2025 13:14:55
Interesting hearing about Roman! I always wondered about his past but it never really registered with me but it certainly wound my Spurs and Arsenal mates up. In fact, thinking about it, it wound all my non Chels mates up when he took us over.
I really don't care who our "custodians" are but would prefer they were clean and honest and not crooks but I thought the FA did checks on them nowadays ED01?
{Ed001's Note - the FA are not exactly a beacon of light and honesty themselves mate. They do basic background checks, but they can only go on what is proven, not on what is known but you can't prove in court. We know Roman, for example, got up to a lot of shady stuff, so bad that even the oligarchy that is Russia said it was too much. He was ordered to become governor of his home region and pay for everything out of his own pocket as punishment. This is a country where the FSB were in charge and all the oligarchs (and by extension Bratva) were FSB just took what they wanted using the leverage they had discovered over people. People that stood up to them just disappeared. So whatever Roman did, must have been bad if they felt he deserved to be punished! A country where anything goes says you have gone too far, then you know there is some real dark stuff involved.
And now in Israel, he is massively contributing funds to the settler projects that are illegally stealing land from the native population. It is akin to going to the USA and paying for people to go in and just steal the reservations there from the Native Americans. But if the FA did a background check on that, despite it being hugely illegal (as well as disgustingly immoral) would they stop him owning a football club in England over it? No they wouldn't. They do not consider it as a problem, despite it being against all international and humanitarian laws.}
19 Nov 2025 16:10:11
I had no idea Roman was upto all that ED01 and as I previously said I have little to no interest in who our owners are providing they put their hands in their pockets and buy players (sounds really selfish thinking about it but that is how I have always looked at club ownership) .
Maybe, as fans, we should be grateful the club changed hands and get behind the new owners rather than constantly wingeing about trivial little matters when you take into account all that you have just explained ED01. Thankyou for your insight.
{Ed001's Note - I just think you can't blame a club for who owns it. You have to really divorce the club from the owners in your minds because no one earns enough to buy one by being a good person.}
19 Nov 2025 19:17:43
The new owners were absolutely right to report the irregularities. All fans whinge about the clubs owners, they have made mistakes but as I have always said out of the options put forward they were the right choice . Strangely, I have read reports that if the previous owner had disclosed the payments to third parties we wouldn’t have been in breach of the then extant FFP rules.
Personally, I just want the sanctions to be imposed and that we move on, whatever they are.
19 Nov 2025 20:52:03
I think the sanctions may well involve a loss of points which could push us out of champions league contention and maybe Tom B is correct that the threat of sanctions has stopped us getting a FOS sponsor? easy for some to blame our current owners for situations caused by our previous owner.
19 Nov 2025 22:34:43
I think it will be a fine and a one or two window transfer ban.
20 Nov 2025 13:17:39
I'm sure the FA and Prem will dish out sanctions to Man City before we are sanctioned, they must have worked out what to do about their 115 issues unless it's more now due to the increase in interest rates .
20 Nov 2025 16:48:43
Tom
I have been crying out for stability therefore I would be very happy with a transfer ban but that would have to be both in and out.