How Is Chelsea Without Abramovich?

The 'blue' club has frozen assets and the only exception to selling tickets has been the match against Madrid in the Champions League. The fans protested this weekend before those who could be its new owners, the Ricketts, before an official store closed for not being able to sell.

Protests in front of the stadium, closed shops, gasoline paid for by the soccer players themselves ... Everything that surrounds Chelsea outside the limits of the Stamford Bridge pitch is chaotic.

On the pitch, Thomas Tuchel's team, current champions of the Champions League, try to continue competing, but they cannot completely isolate themselves from the problems that they experience in the offices. This weekend, a tough 0-4 loss to Brentford has awakened all the ghosts just hours before a vital game this season against Real Madrid.

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Both teams already met last season. At that time, the context was very different. The 'blue' team was a great one in Europe resurgent, and ended up beating Zidane's men. Russia's invasion of Ukraine has changed everything: Roman Abramovic h has been forced to sell one of the most profitable and valuable entities in the world, and all assets have been frozen, to the point of not being able to carry out economic transactions.

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In this sense, the scenes in London are bleak. A couple of signs hang on the doors of the stadium store stating that it is "closed". A group of people shout with signs asking for the punishment to be lifted , and cry out against what could be the new owners, the Ricketts, accused of racism.

Special permission has been needed to open the stadium on Madrid day , they cannot sell tickets or marketing products and the players have to pay for their travel to the Premier League grounds where they play. The British government has suspended all the Russian's relations with the club, they have dismissed workers in everything that is not related to sports and the first team , and have left senior managers without decision-making power or negotiation.

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At the moment, large North American investment groups are the ones that are closest to being able to pay the more than 3,000 million euros that the handling of everything related to Chelsea can be worth. Right now, the strongest names are those of the Ricketts family (owners of the Chicago Cubs), Stephen Pagliuca (investor owner of Atalanta and Boston Celtics), Todd Boehly (owner of the LA Dodgers) or Harris and Blitzer ( investment team that owns the Philadelphia 76ers).

In this sense, the outcry against the Ricketts is because Joe, the head of the family, would have sent different messages in which he calls Islam a "sect" and his "enemy", among other things.

A situation that could be resolved at the end of this month of April, when it is speculated that the sale of the club could be closed. A turning point that will mark the beginning of a new path for Chelsea.