Chelsea Newsletter - Friday 11th March

Covering: Abramovich sanctioned, the fallouts, and where we stand now, Profiling more potential new owners with sale more than likely still, Plus the small little event of reviewing an actual match!!

Morning, long one today people, obviously.

wow. WOW. woooooow. Right? Where to start. Absolute manic. Yesterday was eeeeeasily my busiest, most stressful, and most emotional day covering Chelsea FC EVER. Crazy, insane, ludicrous, ridiculous, upsetting, all the above.

How I feel right now though? It’s more hopeful, after digesting it all and seeing where we might still be able to come out…

For what it’s worth, I think it’s unfair to punish Chelsea fans, staff, and players for what an owner has allegedly done. People working in the Chelsea club shop right now with bills to pay, have no idea if they’ll even continue to be paid whilst the shop is shut. How’s that fair? And I know what people are going through in Ukraine is devastating and MUCH worse, but that isn’t the point it isn’t about comparing who suffers the most. What’s happening there isn’t on us, it isn’t on Thomas Tuchel, it isn’t on the players, and we now have to suffer along as well?

But listen, once my emotions calmed on the above, I actually feel there might be some light at the end of the tunnel and reason for hope at the club. Whilst we have now probably had it taken away from us that Roman Abramovich will be able to chose the new owner, all this talk of administration, points deduction etc, is all just far too dramatic and over kill.

I believe the club will be seized by the UK Government, and then sold quickly very soon. I hope then that the money made will be sent to charities supporting those in the Ukraine, which is what Abramovich was doing anyway, but who knows.

I think with the alternative on offer, having a new owner that Abramovich might not have a choice over, is probably the best we can hope for now and we will have to take that and run with it, and try and search for the positives on it.

Let’s hope that we get an owner who comes in and is willing to move Chelsea on and keep us successful, that’s what we must look to now. Roman Abramovich is gone, but Chelsea Football Club will always be here, and personally I’ll always support them no matter what.

I have some confidence with the sale happening, and I believe it will. Let’s hope that maybe we see a Chelsea fan come in, someone like Nick Candy or Jamie Reuben, who are keen Tories and might get a cheap deal from their mate Boris Johnson! But realistically it looks like the Americans are leading the race, and best we can hope for there is the Boehly/Wyss consortium.

Anyway, we had a game last night to talk about, and I’d forgive any of you if you’d forgotten! I did my usual watch along match review that you can check out here.

Chelsea are still up for sale, so I’ve still been profiling potential new owners, and here is some stuff first on Muhsin Bayrak here, the Turkish businessman who says he was close to buying Chelsea before the sanctions and is now ‘incredibly depressed’, and then on Jamie Reuben, the Chelsea fan interested here.

Some transfer rumours to half have a look at now here regardless of the events of Thursday, could well still become more than relevant.

Finally, recap on every little detail from yesterday’s massive news as it all came through here in our as it happened live blog. Anything you need to know on the sanctions and what it means for the future and now, you will 100% find in this article.

Unprecedented times right now guys, I’ll check in over the weekend if anything major pops off. Let’s stick together and back Chelsea FC! Otherwise, have a good one and I’ll be back with the newsletters on Monday!

Peace, Si.