The overall consensus this afternoon seems to be that it’s the three American-led events trying to purchase Chelsea FC who’re main the race, and all bar considered one of them, this is able to be completely disastrous and easily can not occur.
I’m not even speaking about the truth that each The Ricketts household and Woody Johnson may try to run Chelsea like The Glazers and Manchester United, or Liverpool, the place it’s all about revenue and the ‘franchise’. I used to be ready to attempt to search for positives away from that and hope that neither would function this manner and each would put our membership’s greatest pursuits at coronary heart, extra hope than something. However I used to be ready to hope.
Nonetheless, what I’ve learn this afternoon has even taken away that slight little bit of hope I used to be ready to have, as a result of fairly merely, I are not looking for both of them close to our soccer membership, purely for integrity causes.
This tweet from 2019, ought to immediately put to mattress any discuss of The Ricketts household proudly owning Chelsea, they’re a shame. They can’t come anyplace close to us and there’s no method this will likely be handed by the Authorities.
Cubs proprietor Joe Ricketts: “Muslims are my enemy” https://t.co/ApTKEJQK2j pic.twitter.com/n05anJXcfr
— Kim Janssen (@kimjnews) February 4, 2019
And it doesn’t look significantly better for Johnson both, with some historic claims right here…
“The US ambassador to the UK, Woody Johnson, was reportedly investigated by a state division watchdog over alleged racist and sexist feedback to workers and for allegedly making an attempt to make use of his place to advance Donald Trump’s enterprise pursuits”
https://t.co/g0HSPnrVmb— CFCDaily (@CFCDaily) March 16, 2022
Chelsea merely can not afford to place a brand new proprietor in with historical past and political hyperlinks like these two, it’s not possible and it’s morally mistaken. I’d take Todd Boehly, as a result of as a lot as I can see at the least he isn’t pulling off any of the nonsense that the above two are pulling on the very least. However these two, no method they are often our house owners and we should voice this in all places proper now.
Get it proper, Chelsea, Raine Group, and UK Authorities, please!
