I've been saying this for years: football has always had the ability to ignore the stench of money…just so long as they see the colour of it.
How many times have questions been raised about owners of clubs, only for concerns to be waived away, and agreements waved through, because of the money involved?
It’s not just Chelsea. Boris Johnson apparently intervened to help ease through the sale of Newcastle to Saudi Arabian interests. Russian money, Chinese money, money from states with dubious human rights records, it’s all washed through football in recent years.
