If anyone walks out of that 'mafia' state with a fistful of dollars/pounds whatever....Then you know that they are corrupt.

Anyone with half a brain knows that, and I think you know it too Chelski.

It's not an attack on Chelsea the football club, it's just a statement of reality on where the money that funds it comes from.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

In other words, you are guessing!!! You have no evidence of this and he has never been convicted of this. A previous poster actually extolled the virtues of one of your past chairmans business abilities. So because he came from Russia he is immediately a crook?? Or is he a just a good businessman?

Still waiting on the evidence!?!?!?

Once again too literal.

Show me a government official in Russia and I will show you someone who accepts bribes.

It is illegal in Russia, however that is the way it works.

He was a Governor of a state in Russia, part of the federation, so part of that regime.

I am sure that he had no idea of the Millenium Hotel debacle, is a very nice man etc, however the way in which State Companies were turned over from 1991 onwards was not legal in Russia - let alone here, however he was in the gang that won as it were and so has got to keep what he was able to take.

Do not be naive to think anything otherwise. There is vast poverty in Russia - vast, yet he has spent millions on a football club in England effectively at their expense.

Think on that.

Look, you baited re 5-1, I nibbled, I've come back with the validity on which your club was bought to which you start implying that our owners are a sinister bunch.

Living where I do, it would be of no surprise to me (well it would and I'd s*** myself) if I got a knock on my door from the Ministry of Interior here asking me not to cast dispersions on one of Azerbaijan's good friends. However that is the way it is here and that is the way of Russia.

Continuing in this fashion is just mud slinging and it isn't even about anything really to do with you winning 5-1 on Monday is it? - not the bit about our dodgy owners and radioactivity anyway.

Blimey this thread is a little strange. It's a bit like a Man Utd fan going onto an Oldham fan site and bragging at how good they are!.... Pointless!!

I don't mind Chelsea to much. If anything I don't look at them, Man Utd, Man City as I do other clubs. They are in there own world, a world that us and 95% of all other clubs will never be in. In a way it doesn't seem real. I have worked at Chelsea before and prior to the match you get countless people in Chelsea shirts and scarves asking you for directions to a certain stand. Chinese, Japanese, yanks, russians, poles, spanish and many other nationalities. It all seems a bit plastic and souless.

Being brought up near Sutton I have alot of mates who are Chelsea fans. They can't go to the games as they can't afford it. Football and the money side of things is out of control and Chelsea must accept some blame for this along with others. If you throw enough money at something then eventually it will work.

If anything I respect Man Utd more than I do Chelsea. Whatever you say about Sir Alex this is a man who has stood head and shoulders above any other manager. For over 25 years he has built successful sides, moved with the times, spent money but not in the mad way that Chelsea and Man City have. If things havent worked out for a season United have stuck by him and not chopped and changed manager after manager.

As for John Terry I will always respect his footballing ability but as a person the man is quite clearly a c***. Chelsea fans defend him to the hilt even though this is a man who uses racist language, sleeps with his friends girlfriends behind his wifes back, abuses and throws food whilst drunk at american tourists on the day of the 9/11 attacks and cheats constantly on the mother of his children by chatting up girls and making them sign contracts so they won't go to the papers... The last bit I know for a fact.

Nobody is perfect but this clearly is a man who has no morales or standards and certainly not somebody who we should be looking up to. Thank god he isn't the captain of our national team anymore.

Don't waste your time with jealousy. Sometimes your ahead, sometimes your behind, the race is long. But in the end it's only with yourself!!

Chelski,

It's all part of the game. You take $1m from people, give back $100K.

Look at me, aren't I great?

Before you continue spouting more examples of what I have just pointed out, go to these towns - Chukotka etc and see what they are like and then question whether he should be spending whatever it was on Drogba.

If he didn't do this by the way, then he wouldn't be allowed to keep what he has - look at Khodokovsky and Yukos