Chelsea FC face new questions over how Roman Abramovich funded success
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Leaked files reveal secret payments that may have breached football’s strict ‘financial fair play’ rules
  • sewious@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I thought the issue is that when Chelsea got taken over, what they did wasn’t “against the rules”

    • Caesar_Aurelianus@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      There weren’t any FFP rules.

      Earlier the 3 foreigner rule made clubs rely on regional players so they couldn’t just splash money all over.

      If there weren’t that rule then Berlusconi would’ve bought the whole Dutch national team