Everton manager Frank Lampard insists he does not want to be drawn on the issue of Russian money in English football amid Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
Prime Minster Boris Johnson has announced that he aims to cut Russia off from the United Kingdom’s financial markets with sanctions including freezing assets of all major Russian banks in response to the attacks.
Everton have sponsorship deals with USM Holdings, which a page on the club’s website describes as a “Russian-based group”, and Lampard spent the bulk of his own playing career with a Chelsea side bankrolled by Russian businessman Roman Abramovich.
