No time! Roman Abramovich set to buy new football club after losing Chelsea due to UK sanction
Looks like Roman Abramovich is not wasting any time in moving on after losing Chelsea due to UK sanctions.
However, reports via The SUN, claims that Roman Abramovich has allegedly already started talks to buy a new football club after losing control of Chelsea.
He has been slapped with sanctions by the UK government due to his alleged ties with controversial Russian president Vladimir Putin.
And now he is desperately trying to sell the club with numerous bidders keen to take over at Stamford Bridge.
Now reports in Turkey are claiming that the billionaire is ready to return to the game fast. According to Fanatik, he has started negotiations to buy Turkish soccer club Goztepe.
The team are currently 18th in the Super Lig and two points from safety, The news comes just 48 hours after Ukrainians tried to stop Abramovich’s super yacht from docking in Turkey in an anti-war protest.
The group were seen in a dinghy carrying their country’s yellow and blue flag with the words “No War” written on it.
It’s not clear if Abramovich himself was on the 460-foot yacht My Solaris when it docked in Bodrum on Monday afternoon.
The Chelsea owner, worth a cool £10bn, was sanctioned by the UK government as part of attempts to crackdown on wealthy Russians with assets in the UK
The protesters were a team of young yachtsmen from the Black Sea city of Odessa, Nexta TV reports.
Their action ended when local police arrived and the yacht was able to dock in the port at the Turkish resort.
It arrived there just over a week after it left Montenegro’s Adriatic resort town of Tivat on March 13.
Since then the vessel had tracked south and rounded the Greek island of Crete in recent days before reaching Turkish waters on Monday morning.
Two superyachts belonging to the battered billionaire have set sail to evade sanctions imposed on him by the European Union, who allege he has “privileged access” to Putin.
According to Marine Traffic. A second yacht linked to Abramovich, Eclipse, is currently cruising south of the Greek island of Rhodes and also seems to be on its way to Turkey,
