Quote Originally Posted by Blink 1nce Quince 2wice View Post
Without getting into the chicken and egg thing, most owners (at the time Abramovich joined at least) loved football and want to see their team succeed. the undeniable difference is, Abramovich was far richer than the rest. We've had and spent money money poorly and now we have an average manager.
Abamovich came in had money and was willing to put it in to succeed, but importantly he also clearly loved football, he went to a lot of matches (which surely showed he enjoyed it), I agree that maybe at that time there were plenty of people who were the same at board level, however this has changed, certainly with us, once Dein left it became clear that money was the motivation for our board and not football. Abramovich is still around today, despite a lot of people saying at the time saying Chelsea will be finished when he leaves in a few years, he hasn't, he's continued with them when he could have sold them off if he'd wanted to.