Chelsea-Gau: Suddenly the future is on the game

The FC Chelsea are hard times before Boss Roman Abramovich is sanctioned. The main sponsor sets the advertising, even the ticket sales will be stopped. How it continues with Timo Werner, Kai Hanctz, Thomas Tuchel and Co. can only be speculated.

• Main sponsor retreats
• Government freezes abramovich assets
• Carragher: Manchester United should bring Tuchel

No transfers, no ticket sales, not even an open fanshop: The British government has sanctioned the FC Chelsea and his Russian owner Roman Abramovich hard. The planned sale of the traditional club, which has lived financially almost carefree since 19 years thanks to the oligarch, has been laid on ice for the time being. Thus, the club of the German team manager Thomas Tuchel is facing an uncertain future.

Even a stop of the game work was in the room, but this prevented the Government of Boris Johnson with a special license. This allows Chelsea to "continue to go to soccer games and to go to other activities in connection with football to protect the Premier League, the football pyramid, loyal fans and other clubs," said it in a statement.

Main sponsor retreats

However, the Chelsea main sponsor, the mobile phone company Three, started at Thursday, the per season 48 million euros expensive advertising. This will displace many fans, but be "in the given circumstances the right one," said Three.

So while the ball is still rolling in contrast to the ruble, there are partly violent sanctions. In the future, only permanent card holders in the stadium may be prohibited at the Stamford Bridge, the sale of day tickets. The fan shop must also be closed. Reason: Abramovich may not earn money with Chelsea.

The club announced in a first reaction talks with the government so that the club "as normal as possible" could continue working. The game planned for Thursday night at Norwich City is not endangered.

Government freezes abramovich assets

Currently, above all, the designed sale of the association is exposed. The Ministry of Finance in London confirmed that "also the Chelsea Football Club is part of the frozen assets". Only a week ago Abramovich had announced the sale of the Champions League winner after 19 years. With the proceeds he wanted to support the victims of Russian war in Ukraine according to their own information.

In total, seven Russians are on the new London list. "Today's sanctions once again show that oligarches and kleptocrats have no place in our economy and society," said British Foreign Minister Liz Truss. Given their close relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin, they are "complicit at his aggression".

Abramovich was frozen as a result, fortune in the United Kingdom, and a trade ban with British private individuals and a travel ban was imposed against the 55-year-old. After all, the Johnson government is considering integrating the sale of the association into the special license and thus still to enable. A profit may not achieve a profit in this case.

Carragher: Manchester United should bring Tuchel

Chelsea had won numerous titles among Abramovich, including five of his six English championships and 2012 and 2021 the Champions League. Now the club stands in front of an uncertain future - as well as the owner. Already a week ago Abramovich had said he wanted to visit the Stamford Bridge last time. Even this is more than questionable.

In addition, the blues, for which currently the international Timo Werner, Kai Hvertz and Antonio Rüdiger, may not play more player transfers or conclude new contracts. Spicy: Rüdiger's contract runs out in the summer, clubs like the FC Bayern and Juventus Turin had last signals interest. But even if Rüdiger wanted to extend in London - he could not do that at the moment.

Other clubs could take advantage of the uncertain future of the blues. England's Ex-national player Jamie Carragher already wids the great opportunity for the record champion from Manchester. "Manchester United now has the ideal way to get the coach, which should be your number one goal: Thomas Tuchel," wrote Carragher in his "Telegraph" column. Excluded this scenario has not suddenly since Thursday.