no we don't but the geopolitical risk of investment in the UK by an authoritarian state in an unstable part of the world that is looking to form new alliances and that most people would describe as a rapidly emerging nation is obvious.
With all due respect, I was just putting the question out there. Also, my comment simply sought to draw comparisons in terms of human rights abuses rather than the broader geopolitical impact.
Er,,,I was agreeing with you and adding a bit.
I shouldn’t like this, as in every other area of my life I believe myself to be a fairly responsible, middle aged, adult.
this is the correct answer, the value for Chelsea for a buyer is now £0 or it goes bust. They can still pick their new billionaire owner but they'll be paying nothing for it
Yes. I was supplying one possible answer! Abuse of human rights would only be grounds for this type of sanction (freezing of assets) on a very selective basis. It would require a change in the law. Realpolitik, we wont sanction allies or useful third parties..
He could always sell the rest of his holding to Silver Lake if that ever happened. Just don't make the mistake that Abramovich made and not sell up before sanctions are imposed!
Ride it out or accept pence to the pound.
Someone at the very top of the Saudi regime ordered the murder of the Saudi journalist Khasoggi. Apart from few words being said, not one western country did a thing.
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While I obviously don't want to see my club sanctioned, you're absolutely right.
Just ten posts before yours, I posted this:
The UK is on the same side as Saudi Arabia in the war in Yemen. We can’t sanction Saudi Arabia or UAE there in that war (a war that, in fact, where Saudi and UAE are actually fighting against a group who tried to overthrow the government, it’s not this evil war they’ve waged on innocents it’s made out to be by those sports journalists who like to virtue signal about “Abu Dhabi state funded Manchester City human rights abusers”) because we’re supplying them with weapons and money and assumingly not disagreeing with their tactics.
As I understand it, the terms of the sanctions imposed on Abramovic forbid him from now selling the club.
Because this isn’t about just plucking a random invasion out of thin air and just saying “right, we’ll ignore all the others and just concentrate on this one”… we are doing this as a tactic because we could very well end up in war with Russia. Russia directly threaten us if Putin’s expansionist wishes run through Ukraine and then threaten a NATO country next like Estonia and Latvia.
In 2019 a UN report said the US, UK and France were complicit in committing war crimes in Yemen by selling weapons and providing support to the Saudi-led coalition which is using the deliberate starvation of civilians as a tactic of warfare. I don't disagree with you but reject any accusations of whataboutery. Any comparisons I was seeking to make concerned the broader issue of human rights abuses and the inconsistent treatment of football club owners.
