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Been doing a bit of digging.

Romain has a personal wealth of 12billion.
JWH has a personal wealth of 1.1 billion.

Taken from Wikipedia so probably not entirely accurate.

But where Chelsea has 1 owner, we are owned by FSG

FSG have 20 partners

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenway_Sports_Group


Ted Alfond is worth 1.7billion

William Alfond 1.7billion


Now if you consider each is worth maybe 500million, our owners collectively are more wealthy than R.Abram.

Wealthiest football clubs we are in the top 10 above Chelsea.

https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/top-20-richest-football-clubs-in-the-world-2020/ar-BB131ujg



The question is why have Chelsea spent over 200million this window yet we have spent 11million, which was covered by the 10.9million transfer of Lovren.


I'm not a mathematical genius but we are clearly in the same level as Chelsea so why are we struggling to compete with them.

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Originally Posted By Welsh_Wizard
Been doing a bit of digging.

Romain has a personal wealth of 12billion.
JWH has a personal wealth of 1.1 billion.

Taken from Wikipedia so probably not entirely accurate.

But where Chelsea has 1 owner, we are owned by FSG

FSG have 20 partners

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenway_Sports_Group


Ted Alfond is worth 1.7billion

William Alfond 1.7billion


Now if you consider each is worth maybe 500million, our owners collectively are more wealthy than R.Abram.

Wealthiest football clubs we are in the top 10 above Chelsea.

https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/top-20-richest-football-clubs-in-the-world-2020/ar-BB131ujg



The question is why have Chelsea spent over 200million this window yet we have spent 11million, which was covered by the 10.9million transfer of Lovren.


I'm not a mathematical genius but we are clearly in the same level as Chelsea so why are we struggling to compete with them.


Big difference is that FSG bought liverpool to make money while Abramovich bought Chelsea to create a legacy to be proud of, it's his pride

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erm... 1 makes the decision outright and the other needs to have majority consensus with 19others?

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Wealth is redundant since ffp came in years ago


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ffp is dead


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Originally Posted By TheMightyLFC
ffp is dead


Why was City initially banned and fined then?


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Yep Man City made FFP pretty dead in the water after they overturned the CL ban for breaking FFP.


It's obvious that every Prem team (apart from us) no longer abide by FFP.

LOOK at Leeds Utd.


Unless we want to do a Blackburn Rovers and slip into mid table after they won the title, it's imperative that we strengthen the first 11.


It's bizarre our owners cannot see that.


Klopp wanted Werner who Chelsea signed.

Is it time for FSG to sell up

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FSG are a conglomerate of owners, with majority shareholders Henry owning 40% and Gordon owing 12%, the rest are small % stake holders, so will not really have a say, they will invest and receive profit in dividends and when they sell, probably for a good increase in share value..

FSG are a business, they are run as a business, Abramovich runs chelsea as a fun project, for his vanity/entertainment, so he is happy to throw money at it and lose it, FSG need a sustainable return.

I doubt Chelsea could be ran as a business and make the buys/success they have had over the last 15 years.

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Originally Posted By Welsh_Wizard
Yep Man City made FFP pretty dead in the water after they overturned the CL ban for breaking FFP.


It's obvious that every Prem team (apart from us) no longer abide by FFP.

LOOK at Leeds Utd.


Unless we want to do a Blackburn Rovers and slip into mid table after they won the title, it's imperative that we strengthen the first 11.


It's bizarre our owners cannot see that.


Klopp wanted Werner who Chelsea signed.

Is it time for FSG to sell up


Madness ! FSG took us over when we were on the verge of bankruptcy in the courts under H&G just under 10 years ago, we were losing our star players (Torres/Alonso/Mascherrano etc). since then they have brought in a great manager, playing exiting football which won us the CL, PL, World Club Cup, European Super Club, runner up in CL, PL & Europa, we have bought in and retained some great players, we have increased the stadium capacity by 10,000 and modernised the stadium, business off the pitch has been hugely modernise/increased with much better management/sponsorship deals etc.

I agree we need to strengthen, I hope FSG do, but we were in the wilderness for 20+ years before FSG, without a plan and a hope, FSG have their issues and frustrations being too conservative IMO, but overall they have been good owners, I am happy we are ran as a business, we are sustainable and will survive/prosper if FSG sell up and walk away, can the same be said for Chelsea/Man City/PSG etc who are ran as play things for states/Oligarchs?

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Chelsea made A LOT profit with the sales of Hazard, Morata etc, plus they had one window banned, so it stand to reason that they would have money to spend. Nothing to do with comparing him to FSG. We also know that Roman would push for a player even if the coach don't want him. There are some rumors that one or two players are Roman signings.

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