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Interesting choice of words komrade. I think his manager will remain alive.
That can't be said about some others though:
"After Sibneft, Abramovich's next target was the aluminium industry. After privatisation the 'aluminium wars' lead to murders of smelting plant managers, metals traders and journalists as groups battled for control of the industry. Abramovich famously emerged winner in the aluminium wars.[30] The Times stated that in a BBC investigation into Abramovich's wealth, reporter John Sweeney noted that, after the oligarch (Abramovich) emerged at the top of the trade, the murders stopped.[34]"
Oil and aluminium industries were even ahead of banking in terms of risk of murder at the time.
I guess Chelski fans only care if the club wins some meaningful cups. It's funny how no well known players (or at all?) expressed any issues with cleanness of money they get paid their salaries. Maybe that's the mistake Gaddafi made - should have bought a club or two.
IMHO, that's strictly not true, Abramovich kept his nose very clean, hence he curried favour both with Yeltsin and the West (for the future). He even went and became Gov for Kamchatka, NE Siberia, the tulip hole of the USSR and that's saying something and did a lot of good, maybe to get in with Yeltsin, but he still did something decent rather than than the free-for-all money-fest the other Oligarchiy got involved with.
He's a hard nosed businessman for sure, but a killer? I think not. He had his fortune before the Yeltsin sell-off, he had a Child's Doll-making company post Soviet melt-down and to be fair to him, he took his chance with the hard-nosed bastards and soft-core Kreml', played them off against each other, ripped off the Russian Public and cooked off to Blighty...
"Luxury cruises in the Caribbean, mansions in France, deals at the Dorchester, Chechen gangsters, and billions funnelled through opaque offshore companies – all have been uncovered in what is the UK's biggest private litigation bust-up."
Either way I think we can safely say that AVB's days are numbered. Return of the José anyone?
Doubt it, it's becoming obvious the success in the EPL can't really be bought, City doing ok but as yet won nowt...
Remember these people inc Venky's at Bobburn are investing to clean up EPL, both Cups and Champs League, and let's face it, the first three are the usual ones out of four/five/six, plus the odd wildcard, and last one Europe wide, one out of ten? No chance really...
The Return on Capital Employed is crap, especially for Venky's!!
Doubt it, it's becoming obvious the success in the EPL can't really be bought, City doing ok but as yet won nowt...
Remember these people inc Venky's at Bobburn are investing to clean up EPL, both Cups and Champs League, and let's face it, the first three are the usual ones out of four/five/six, plus the odd wildcard, and last one Europe wide, one out of ten? No chance really...
The Return on Capital Employed is crap, especially for Venky's!!
The EPL is becoming an expensive joke, billionaire Indian chicken farmers... FFS.
I prefer the good old days when football was just cheap entertainment and successful clubs won cups on merit.
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