Roman Abramovich could have bought Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, Wall Street Journal reporters Jonathan Clegg and Joshua Robinson argue in a new book, The Club .

Read more . The businessman even met with the management of the club, but after the meeting he was badly impressed by the area in which the club was located.

Quote. “As his Mercedes was driving down Tottenham High Road that day, he looked out the window and said to his buddy in Russian, ‘This is worse than Omsk,’” Clegg and Robinson . said
In 2003, Abramovich hired the Swiss bank UBS to assess the situation in the English Premier League. As a result of this study, the businessman became aware of the disastrous financial condition of Chelsea, the incomprehensible prospects of Tottenham and that Arsenal was not for sale. However, former Arsenal vice-president David Dein says in the book that the club was willing to consider the offer.
As a result, Abramovich bought Chelsea in 2003 for $ 230 million. Clegg and Robinson claim that after the purchase, the Russian billionaire insisted on acquiring Arsenal legend Thierry Henry, but attempts to buy out the player's contract did not bring results.
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Context. According to Deloitte, Abramovich's club earned €428 million in 2016/2017 season revenue. Forbes estimates Chelsea were worth almost $2.1 billion last year.

Since 2003, the London football club has won the Champions League for the first time, won the title of champion of England five times and won the FA Cup the same number of times. Abramovich's team won the League Cup three times and the FA Super Cup twice.

Anton Baev

“Worse than Omsk”: why Abramovich didn’t buy Tottenham