Chelsea fans have shown their support for the billionaire who has put the London club up for sale.
Premier League clubs are making a show of solidarity with Ukraine during this weekend’s round of matches, with all 20 captains wearing yellow and blue armbands – the colours of Ukraine.
While the Russian oligarch has always denied having close ties to Putin, he is described as a ‘person of interest to the Home Office because of his links to the Russia state and his public association with corrupt activity’, as Labour leader Keir Starmer put it in parliament last week.Both sets of players from Burnley and Chelsea joined in the applause as a show of solidarity with Ukraine
– which he has owned since 2003 – and he is believed to have as many as 10 legitimate offers for the club, which is valued at £3billion.In his statement, the Russian claimed he will not ask for the £1.5bn in loans he has given Chelsea to be repaid and that net proceeds from the sale will go to a new charitable foundation he is setting up which will ‘benefit all victims of the war in Ukraine’.
‘There’s no point saying, yeah, we’re going to go after him, and then you come up against the brick wall of lawyers. So we have to get it right.
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