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Chelsea FC face fresh questions over how its former owner Roman Abramovich funded the club’s success, after leaked files revealed a string of secret payments that may have breached strict football rules, including those on “financial fair play”.

Experts said the transactions, uncovered through a joint investigation by the Guardian and international partners, could lead to the Premier League imposing punishments on Chelsea, such as a deduction of points.

The files reveal a series of payments worth tens of millions of pounds over a decade, routed through offshore vehicles belonging to Abramovich. The transactions in question appear to have been for Chelsea’s benefit, raising questions about whether they were declared in accounts submitted to football’s governing bodies.

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Chelsea’s success will always have an asterix next to it - if they were owned by Arabs, of course.

Take away those titles!

City and Chelsea duking it out for the one direct promotion spot in the national league next season.

We're acting like these things are new now? The entire system is rotten to the core, not just the club funding but the entire organisations running the sport

Is this any different than City taking 'revenue' from shell companies owned by their club's owner? If nothing will be done to City for money laundering and stuff like that I doubt anything comes of this.

And despite all of this, the Premier League will keep opening its legs to any shitty human with a lot of money.

Throw city and Chelsea in a league with Newcastle and PSG. That can be the true super league.

People always like to point out that City ruined football, but the FA and the other authorities just letting Roman financially dope his way through success was rhe bigger alarm.

None of it matters now. They've reaped the benefits and any points deduction doesnt make a difference.

Don't worry guys, I'm sure the FA, the Premier League, UEFA and FIFA, bastions of sporting integrity, will come together to tackle the corruption of the likes of Chelsea and City any day now.

The FA and UEFA: Oh No! Anyway...

Fire and blood

Wait you’re telling me that Chelsea’s meteoric rise to winning trophies, immediately after being acquired by a Russian oligarch who was friends with Putin, is in some way connected to ill gotten gains?

What's new? Every couple of months "new" information comes out about some financial transaction that some club made. Football is a cesspool of secret money transfers and underhanded dealings.

Call me when something concrete comes out or when a club is actually punished.

I don’t care he’s not the owner anymore. Now let’s talk about Man City.

Well that's a bit vague, isn't it. Doesnt provided any convincing information just that the previous club owner may have done something sketchy with the club's profits. Some sources revealed Chelsea's profits directly go to Putin's pockets. How do this breach financial fair play? We ain't doping the transfer market with state fund money. It's just roman's own business what he does with the profits how does that lead to point deduction after this whole fiasco

We all knew their success was bullshit, let's hope this is the nail in the coffin that confirms it.