Liam Twomey
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 9 Sep
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The Athletic FC Podcast · What If... Abramovich bought Spurs instead of Chelsea? · 6 Sep 2026
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It it i it's a complicated story, but essentially
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Chelsea w Chelsea were punished separately by UEFA, by the Premier League, and then finally by the FA for undeclared payments made to agents, intermediaries, uh third parties essentially, um, in certain player deals.
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Um and there was a separate issue about
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Academy infractions in the Abramovich era, but we'll leave that to one side.
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It it's kind of secondary to the main story.
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And um and this occurred for the majority of the 2010s.
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Uh that that that's what the cases refer to.
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It's not necessarily that they wouldn't have got these players, that's we can't really know that without those payments, but these these payments happened and were
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not declared um and
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The reason why Chelsea ultimately avoided a sporting penalty, which has been hugely controversial among Premier League rivals, um, is that they successfully argued and I think governing bodies were suc were convinced that they wouldn't have breached financial rules in any of the given years, even if those payments had been declared.
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Um that they did not gain a sporting advantage, although the extent to which that concept was tested is uh debatable, uh and certainly rival clubs uh absolutely contest that point.
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Um and that governing bodies may never have found out about this if Chelsea's new owners hadn't self reported and shown what was deemed
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An exceptional level of cooperation.
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Um, so yeah, it it it is a story that definitely casts a big cloud over the at least the second half of the Abramovich era and the way that Chelsea won their trophies.
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It sounds like a re a rehearsed.
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Yeah, it does, yeah.
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It's really good though.
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I mean on the subject of Mourinho and Abramovich, Mourinho saying, Mr Abramovich, pay and don't speak when it comes to Didier Drogba, that's that's a pretty good line.
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That kinda speaks to why their relationship might have worked in the early days and then not.
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