Sentences with phrase «oligarch owner»

And what of Chelsea, whose oligarch owner would clearly like the team to play like Barcelona, and even tried to appoint Pep Guardiola as the new manager.

We can argue the pro's and cons of an oligarch owner all day but if he invests in the club and makes a manager accountable and therefore do his job, can it really be a bad thing?

Not exact matches

Other deep - pocketed owners include the United Arab Emirates» Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who owns Manchester City, and Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, the owner of Chelsea Football Club.

That was before Roman Abramovich placed a personal call to fellow oligarch and Anzhi Makhachkala owner Suleyman Kerimov to beat Tottenham to the deal.

Its owner is Alexander Lebedev, a Russian oligarch estimated to be the 358th richest person in the world and hardly likely to be a champion of candidates from the egalitarian and redistributive wing of the Party.

Their owner Daniel Křetínský is an oligarch with a poor reputation in our country, having been named in the Panama Papers, and having been investigated by the European Commission.»

A little further down the list you'll find a wealth of international oligarchs, including Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich with # 8.52 billion, Arsenal shareholder Alisher Usmanov with # 10.65 billion and Queens Park Rangers stakeholder and steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal with # 10.25 billion.