Never mind where the money will or won’t go, never mind the vendor has not yet been sanctioned by the European Union or the United Kingdom, there is a bottom line about the Chelsea sale.
If you want to take advantage of the unimaginable human tragedy being inflicted on innocent men, women and children by doing a spot of opportunistic business with a Russian oligarch, you are not passing ANY fit and proper persons test.
The only thing anyone should be doing to Russian oligarchs right now – and this, regardless of how good an owner he has been for Chelsea Football Club, includes Roman Abramovich – is squeezing them so hard they feel they have no option but to try and use their influence to get rid of Vladimir Putin.
