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BREAKING NEWS ; Chelsea FC sensation, club completely scuppered by sanctions?
Tikay10
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What does the special licence mean for Chelsea?
Here are some of the key points from the special licence put in place by the government:
Chelsea are able to pay the wages of all employees, including players and coaching staff.
They can pay "reasonable" costs of travel to and from fixtures but not exceeding £20,000 per game per team.
Pay "reasonable" costs towards hosting home fixtures, not exceeding £500,000 per fixture per team.
Fans who bought season tickets or individual match tickets before 10 March 2022 can attend games.
Broadcasters can broadcast any fixture involving the club.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/football/60688168
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The special licence put in place by the government would allow Chelsea to pay its players, fulfil its fixtures and honour tickets already sold but wouldn’t be able to sell further tickets and the club store closed.
More detail on this breaking story.
Assets frozen includes Chelsea FC.
BBC Sport understands the Premier League was informed 15 minutes before it was announced.
The Government are putting in place a licence to ensure the club can fulfil its fixtures, staff and players can be paid, and as a significant cultural asset that it can continue.
This is about Roman Abramovich not being able to make any money or benefit from Chelsea FC.
Season ticket holders can still attend games they have tickets for but club can not now sell any more tickets that haven’t been sold already
The merchandise shop will be closed.
From Reuters: Britain said on Thursday it had imposed asset freezes on Russian businessmen Roman Abramovich, Igor Sechin, Oleg Deripaska and Dmitri Lebedev after they were added to the country's sanctions list.
The situation with Chelsea is under review, meaning the club can still operate, but the sale is on hold and only season tickets can attend matches.
Roman Abramovich: Sanction of Chelsea owner by UK government halts club's sale
Roman Abramovich's attempt to sell Chelsea has been halted after the oligarch was sanctioned by the UK government as part of its response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
The Russian, who has owned the club since 2003, put the European champions up for sale after the threat of sanctions was raised in Parliament.
The club's seizure also means Chelsea cannot sell further match tickets.
The move comes to stop Abramovich, 55, from making money from Chelsea.
The government says it will issue a special licence that will allow fixtures to be fulfilled, staff to be paid and existing ticket-holders to attend matches.
Season-ticket holders can still attend games for which they have tickets but the club cannot now sell any more tickets.
The club's merchandise shop will also be shut.
Abramovich obviously saw this coming when he (tried?) to pass stewardship of Chelsea FC to the Chelsea Trust last week.
£20,000 to travel to Away games won't get them far unless they downgrade.
Ramifications are enormous and I would of thought premier league,UEFA,players Union,supporters trust and clubs would want full insight as to how this is to work financially.
The games themselves not really a problem,a bit of hardship for the over pampered players perhaps,the supporters of course including away support always suffer.
Whilst the government is on this moral crusade would they look into the affairs of the new owners of nufc.
As this seems to be stretching the fit for purpose calibre somewhat.
The Chelsea Supporters Trust have demanded a say in how all this pans out.
Good luck with that lads....
And now the sponsors are jumping ship....
Any doubt that Rudiger would go now dispelled, he's 100% to leave as a free agent.