Chelsea’s lawyers are working on a legal framework to allow Roman Abramovich to hand over stewardship of the European champions amid ongoing concerns from the trustees that the Russian still wants to run the club.
Abramovich’s plan to give control to Chelsea’s charitable foundation has hit a series of stumbling blocks, not least the legality of switching from a charity to the power behind one of the biggest clubs in the world. That is a concern among certain trustees, who are committed to the foundation’s charitable work.
