Liam Twomey

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1,671 appearances 14 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 9 Sep

Liam Twomey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Athletic FC Podcast · What If... Abramovich bought Spurs instead of Chelsea? · 6 Sep 2026 podcast

So it is very much a contested narrative, but at the very least, Chelsea would have had big problems. voice-verified

Um and so you get to the summer of 2003 and they were successful to a point a club. voice-verified

A club with a European profile, but also a club that was very available to new investment. voice-verified

Taking over. voice-verified

Very quickly. voice-verified

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Um I think Ken Bates tells the story of getting the call uh that that this Russian businessman that he'd never heard of before and they they had to look him up um and and his net worth be before meeting him, um, I believe at the at the Dorchester, um and the the deal was essentially done in about forty minutes. voice-verified

uh to to to sell Chelsea. voice-verified

Um Bates, I think, considered it a bit of a wrench, but obviously knew that this was a very good deal for him given where Chelsea were. voice-verified

Abranovich took over took over Chelsea and also assumed the club's debts at the time, which I believe were around eighty million. voice-verified

And yeah, immediately transformed the outcome voice-verified

outlook of of of Chelsea overnight and I think no one in English football had any idea who he was. voice-verified

It was an era before, you know, readily available information online. voice-verified

know? voice-verified

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Or that was a bit us tubes. voice-verified

There was the nascent internet, wasn't there? voice-verified

You could maybe find like a the forerunner to the Forbes list or whatever of what his net worth was. voice-verified

Um I think Bates had established prior to the meeting that this was a very rich man um and a different level of uh a billionaire rather than a multi multi millionaire, but um the rest of football stuff. voice-verified

soon found out exactly who Roman Ivanovich was. voice-verified

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