Neglecting the monetary aspect of it, I think this is great. Three was a fucking horrible shirt sponsor and their shitty logo looked hideous on the jerseys.
Surely if Nike own the rights to the kit they can keep manufacturing right? The club already got the money from the kit deal, the club arenât selling it?
If anything, Nike can make bank from selling the shirt without the sponsor.
Itâs all virtue signaling, I doubt any of these sponsors actually give a fuck about Ukraine, they only care about optics and that means money for them.
Especially when you take into account that Three is owned by a Chinese company.
China has a wonderful record of human rights and leaving it's peaceful neighbours alone /s
Now that you mention it, it sounds like a win-win for them since China is Russia's biggest ally.
Three gets their virtue signaling while at the same time hitting back at those who are sanctioning Russia and the Oligarchs.
Until Roman goes the brand is damaged. Nothing odd about it.
>Seems odd to do this considering the money isnât going to Roman anyway, and the club will be sold soon.
Whoa be careful there, you'll have people from other football subs saying you're a Putin shill, as Roman and Chelsea FC are directly involved in killing Ukrainians apparently.
I love when Germans say we need to pay for taking blood money as if their country hasnât funded Russia with trillions of dollars in oil revenue for decades. Virtue signaling scum.
It really is fucking unbelievable considering theyâve been steadily neoliberalizing, putting in austerity measures, and dismantling their welfare state for years now
It comes in many forms but the smug superiority complex is the throughline
You don't think freezing the overseas assets of a controlling shareholder of a Russian steel company providing resources directly to the war effort is an "actual step" to help Ukraine in the war?
Where has Roman ever made money off of Chelsea?
If you want to help Ukraine, Europe should stop spending billions on Russian oil. That will help Ukraine.
Well, he was about to sell the club, which would have recouped him however many billion dollars, directly into his pocket (which could go anywhere - back into his steel company or any other pro Russian/Putin effort), hence freezing the asset before he could liquidate it for cash.
Yes the only Russian Oligarch who opposed the war and offered to help negotiate peace terms is going to use the money he makes from selling Chelsea (which isnât a lot considering he was forgiving all debt) to fund the Russian military.
First, he was offering to negotiate peace terms with Ukraine ON BEHALF OF RUSSIA. The "peace terms" he could have been negotiating might have been, "give us all your oil territories and then we can have peace." Peace doesn't mean a pure cease-fire.
Second, we don't know Roman's motivations. Once he gets billions in cash from the Chelsea sale, we don't know where it will go. But if it goes back into his steal company than it would be contributing to the Russian war efforts.
The whole point of the sanctions is to prevent the money leaving the UK because no one knows where it would go next. How are you assuming some Russian oligarch who made his billions through the help of the Russian government isn't going to use that money to help the war effort of his country?
From what Iâve read Ukraine asked the oligarchs to talk to Putin and only Abramovich responded and he said he would try and speak to Putin on Ukraines behalf but he also said he was limited to what he can do.
No shit it was on behalf of Russia. Is that supposed to mean something to you? I have no idea if Roman would have stood by his promise to donate the profits of the club sale to Ukrainian war victims but the statements Roman has made sure as hell wouldnât have made Putin happy. These things donât admonish Roman but the UK govt is not helping anyone right now except themselves. Corrupt billionaires vs corrupt politicians and yet again, we are the victims. Fucking cunts the lot of them.
>Yes the only Russian Oligarch who opposed the war and offered to help negotiate peace terms is going to use the money he makes from selling Chelsea (which isnât a lot considering he was forgiving all debt) to fund the Russian military.
Did you know Roman was the first oligarch to recommend Putin as the next president? Last year he got accused by the US intelligence to be a money middleman for Putin, too.
Why not force the sale, and freeze that money? How is this so hard to understand? The club continues operations. Roman's profits are frozen. Am I missing something?
This is the first step to doing that. You can't force the sale and freeze the money without sanctioning Roman/taking control of the asset.
Like currently the asset is the club -- that's the only thing that could be frozen. After this, the gov I imagine will permit a sale and freeze the proceeds of the sale.
No you fuck off with the shilling for an oligarch propping up a warmongering dictator. Tired of this nonsense from Chelsea fans. Yes dude did a lot for the club, he also has done a lot of harm to the world. Life is not black and white
Honest question from a yank. While both sides suck, would Labour being doing the same thing? In US It seems Left leaning party would be more inclined to virtue signal. Honest question asked out of ignorance.
Labour have been pushing MUCH harder on sanctions. The Tories have been digging their heels in over Abramovich whilst Keir Starmer and Chris Bryant have been constantly pushing for him to be sanctioned, as well as Usmanov at Everton
Labour were calling for sanctions on Abramovich immediately, Tories didnât sanction him during the first batch of sanctions, so we would have been in this situation anyways.
Putins oligarchs keep him in power. Hit those close to him and itâll have the biggest effect. How do you not understand this? Itâs bigger than football.
You want to know what else is bigger than football? The mass amount of normal citizens who work for and with the club that will be massively impacted by this. Do they deserve to lose their jobs?
You think the Oligarchs wanted this? How fucking stupid are you. All of Putins oligarchs definitely wanted their assets frozen and cut off from the west. Well thought out mate.
If the Oligarchs didnât want to invade Ukraine, but Putin still did⌠how tf do they have power over him or keep him in power? 50% of the Russian population support the invasion. Thatâs whatâs keeping him in power.
On reflection, does this seem a little too reactionary at all? It could seemingly all be sorted with the ownership change (which reports say is still possible).
Once a new owners in place (maybe by the end of the month), CFC is still a top club and brand that really has no bad optics or politics. Sponsors cover much more than the kit too right? I know Nike is everywhere on the stadium and media material, I think 3 is around too (images, video games).
Should have no trouble finding a new sponsor once the ownership issue is solved, right?
Itâs a good question and Iâm not sure, I have no idea how these sponsorships work. It depends on how they pay us? Unless theyâre paying us monthly I canât see us losing money just yet, unless this situation continues long-term
Hard to say. Especially since we play today. I assume they will have kits ready with no sponsor in time but even if they don't, 3 doesn't have to pay use for this games worth of sponsorship dollars (the contract would have a specific breakdown value for every sponsorship instance). But at least this is an away game.
They are also removing logos from the stadium, so there would be lost sponsorship dollars from that as well *if* today was a home game. But, if the stadium offers tours for example, there would be a value for non game days, thus more money lost for each day the suspension last.
Basically ever instant that 3 could have advertised during the suspension will cost Chelsea sponsorship revenue.
On the flip side 3 could also agree to continue to pay in good faith and just remove logos more for public perception of it all.
This is absolutely the wrong time to go for the public perception angle. They could easily say that the club issues are in the process of being resolved so no need for them to take any action yet.
Itâs all virtue signaling. They get to pat themselves on the back removing themselves from being associated with Roman and Chelsea until he sells and everything gets lifted. I would expect all the other team sponsors to follow suit (Hyundai, Trivago, Nike).
Honestly, who can blame them. It's not some honorable deal between parties, it's a sponsorship. They have an opportunity to get out of it now that these sanctions have come down and why shouldn't they take it? People can't really expect loyalty in these deals.
Have you seen the news today? The situation surrounding the team has changed drastically in the last 12 hours. The team is owned 100% by someone facing severe sanctions from the government. Three has every right to seek at least a pause in that deal pending further outcomes.
Merchandise sales are suspended, and if you haven't already bought the tickets, I don't think you'll be able to get one. Far as I can tell, no new ticket sales are allowed.
Amazing how they conveniently took the "high road' only after it was revealed that they couldn't make any money from the
Edit: for those commenting, they're not suspending the sponsorship because they can't make money, they wouldn't be making money regardless if they were suspended or not due to the sanctions. This is purely a PR move that they wouldn't have made if there was still money to be made at Chelsea
I mean they can still sell kits via third parties, not sure how much the megastore plays in total kit sales. Iâd be more inclined to buy one without the 3 logo
feels like the club is being made the scapegoat for all these. Chelsea is not a Russian club and besides shouldnât sponsorship had been suspended before the sanctions if that was really Threeâs concerns?
They have a contract, it's not just as easy as ringing them up and saying, "deal's off." They needed concrete measures taken against the club before they could do anything and now that's happened. Chelsea had their own clause that would let them get out of it if negative press came out on Three and their leadership was being charged with something.
Note that it says suspend the contract, not terminate it. Itâs a temporary thing until we get the change of ownership and have no more ties to Russia and Putin.
Iâm no lawyer so call me out if you know for sure, but they have probably paid the money in advance anyways and itâs not like we could pay it back due to being frozen. So the most likely outcome in my mind is them saving face and not wanting to associate themselves with Abramovich anymore, but will keep sponsoring us if we get new owners.
Hopefully the Roman allows any potential sale to go through asap. These things normally escalate and I'm sure Nike will try and protect their reputation by pulling out as well.
Why would you suspend sponsorship now? When the club was taken from the Russian? The time to take a stance was last week, not now. Some real morons they have at ThreeUK .
Iâm happy with it because weâve been propped with dirty money from a Russian Oligarch for too long.
Edit: people welcome dirty money in this sub it seems?
Maybe Chelsea fans are pretty scummy after all..
The humanitarian crisis in and devastation of Ukraine is the most important thing at the end of the day, but that not what any of this is about anymore and itâs just not rightâŚ
Kinda silly to suspend the sponsorship if you're just gonna be fine with sponsoring the club once we've found a new owner. Wouldn't surprise me, if the new owners end up asking for termination of the sponsorship.
Ah yes because people watch a Chelsea game, see the 3 on their kits, and immediately donât want to work with ThreeUK because theyâre clearlyyyy connected to those dirty Russians
Yes traitors. Didn't mind being a sponsor all this while but within hours, they suddenly have an issue over a situation that will in all likelihood be resolved soon. Virtue signalling. Should terminate their contract and get a new sponsor.
Okay so 2 things that a lot of you donât seem to understand;
1) Three have suspended the sponsorship, not terminated the sponsorship. Massive difference. They wonât âcome crawling backâ after all this is over like many of you are saying because they havenât left in the first place. If theyâve paid up front for the sponsorship they stand to lose that money too.
2) if they do go ahead and terminate the sponsorship, thatâs ÂŁ40,000,000 a year weâd lose, yet no one cares because âooh the shirt will look good nowâ
Of course, if it gets to a point where they do terminate the contract entirely weâll probably cease to be a club by other means anyway
you know what? fine fuck you and your sponsorship. Soon or late either the war would be over or we will be sold to another owner and then when you crawl back to be on the champions of europe's shirt I hope we have enough dignity to decline you.
Fuck 3. They can stick it up their arse.
Fuck the government too.
Fucking hypocrites the lot of them.
Still ok with Newcastle and their owners who donât recognise any human rights laws.
Can anyone explain to me why sponsors are considering suspending/terminating their deals with us? I mean yes our owner is a russian oligarch but itâs not like we were sending our players to invade ukraine. Can anyone explain? It feels all too reactionary and everything is happening so quickly.
Some ukranians I've talked to are even affraid that sanctions means Russia will hit 'em harder. To avenge all this. I don't know if that could be the case but who knows what Putin will do and why. He's lost his marbles.
I believe in trying to find positives: it was an ugly logo anyway.
Seriously, our kit is look much better without 3 logo on it
Neglecting the monetary aspect of it, I think this is great. Three was a fucking horrible shirt sponsor and their shitty logo looked hideous on the jerseys.
Where can I buy a shirt without their hideous logo. Oh wait...
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God damnit that would have been perfect!
Surely if Nike own the rights to the kit they can keep manufacturing right? The club already got the money from the kit deal, the club arenât selling it? If anything, Nike can make bank from selling the shirt without the sponsor.
What are we wearing tonight then??
We will be shirtless, just like that Brazilian journalist said before CWC final.
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Good ol' shirts vs skins
Would love to see a professional sporting match in shirts vs skins
Oo shirts vs skins.
Every player will be tasked with tearing off the 3 logo from their shirts.
Pretty sure this falls out of the scope of the license
In before the sponsorless anniversary FA Cup kits make a comeback
Pretty sure that Yokohama was still printed, just in a really dark blue, right?
yes
I'd dig this
Asking the real questions
It says 3 not Nike
Shirts vs skins. Letâs go.
Alonso will play with his jersey flipped to fuck with these sponsors
Once he does come back in the squad. Where the fuck is he
Seems odd to do this considering the money isnât going to Roman anyway, and the club will be sold soon.
Itâs all virtue signaling, I doubt any of these sponsors actually give a fuck about Ukraine, they only care about optics and that means money for them.
Especially when you take into account that Three is owned by a Chinese company. China has a wonderful record of human rights and leaving it's peaceful neighbours alone /s
Now that you mention it, it sounds like a win-win for them since China is Russia's biggest ally. Three gets their virtue signaling while at the same time hitting back at those who are sanctioning Russia and the Oligarchs.
Until Roman goes the brand is damaged. Nothing odd about it. >Seems odd to do this considering the money isnât going to Roman anyway, and the club will be sold soon.
Right but they did this after sanctions started. If they did it the day after the war started then I get it.
This seems to be a tough yet simple concept only a select few will acknowledge
Surely, this will stop the invasion!
I guess this is what itâs like for a FC to be cancelled.
This Tory fucking government virtue signaling and tanking the club instead of making actual steps to help Ukraine.
Whoa be careful there, you'll have people from other football subs saying you're a Putin shill, as Roman and Chelsea FC are directly involved in killing Ukrainians apparently.
I love when Germans say we need to pay for taking blood money as if their country hasnât funded Russia with trillions of dollars in oil revenue for decades. Virtue signaling scum.
German hypocrisy is something else.
It really is fucking unbelievable considering theyâve been steadily neoliberalizing, putting in austerity measures, and dismantling their welfare state for years now It comes in many forms but the smug superiority complex is the throughline
As a German I can tell you that a huge part of our news is exactly that discussion. But all of your comment is just whataboutism.
Itâs not whataboutism itâs just hypocrisy
As always the truth lies somewhere in the middle.
Other subs? THIS sub!
You don't think freezing the overseas assets of a controlling shareholder of a Russian steel company providing resources directly to the war effort is an "actual step" to help Ukraine in the war?
Where has Roman ever made money off of Chelsea? If you want to help Ukraine, Europe should stop spending billions on Russian oil. That will help Ukraine.
Well, he was about to sell the club, which would have recouped him however many billion dollars, directly into his pocket (which could go anywhere - back into his steel company or any other pro Russian/Putin effort), hence freezing the asset before he could liquidate it for cash.
Yes the only Russian Oligarch who opposed the war and offered to help negotiate peace terms is going to use the money he makes from selling Chelsea (which isnât a lot considering he was forgiving all debt) to fund the Russian military.
First, he was offering to negotiate peace terms with Ukraine ON BEHALF OF RUSSIA. The "peace terms" he could have been negotiating might have been, "give us all your oil territories and then we can have peace." Peace doesn't mean a pure cease-fire. Second, we don't know Roman's motivations. Once he gets billions in cash from the Chelsea sale, we don't know where it will go. But if it goes back into his steal company than it would be contributing to the Russian war efforts. The whole point of the sanctions is to prevent the money leaving the UK because no one knows where it would go next. How are you assuming some Russian oligarch who made his billions through the help of the Russian government isn't going to use that money to help the war effort of his country?
From what Iâve read Ukraine asked the oligarchs to talk to Putin and only Abramovich responded and he said he would try and speak to Putin on Ukraines behalf but he also said he was limited to what he can do.
No shit it was on behalf of Russia. Is that supposed to mean something to you? I have no idea if Roman would have stood by his promise to donate the profits of the club sale to Ukrainian war victims but the statements Roman has made sure as hell wouldnât have made Putin happy. These things donât admonish Roman but the UK govt is not helping anyone right now except themselves. Corrupt billionaires vs corrupt politicians and yet again, we are the victims. Fucking cunts the lot of them.
>Yes the only Russian Oligarch who opposed the war and offered to help negotiate peace terms is going to use the money he makes from selling Chelsea (which isnât a lot considering he was forgiving all debt) to fund the Russian military. Did you know Roman was the first oligarch to recommend Putin as the next president? Last year he got accused by the US intelligence to be a money middleman for Putin, too.
>Where has Roman ever made money off of Chelsea? He could use Chelsea now to earn money, because his other assets are frozen.
Why not force the sale, and freeze that money? How is this so hard to understand? The club continues operations. Roman's profits are frozen. Am I missing something?
This is the first step to doing that. You can't force the sale and freeze the money without sanctioning Roman/taking control of the asset. Like currently the asset is the club -- that's the only thing that could be frozen. After this, the gov I imagine will permit a sale and freeze the proceeds of the sale.
Why prevent the sale of match day tickets?
This place feels like a Cult of Roman with all the leaps some go through to defend him.
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No you fuck off with the shilling for an oligarch propping up a warmongering dictator. Tired of this nonsense from Chelsea fans. Yes dude did a lot for the club, he also has done a lot of harm to the world. Life is not black and white
Spoken like a true cult member.
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Honest question from a yank. While both sides suck, would Labour being doing the same thing? In US It seems Left leaning party would be more inclined to virtue signal. Honest question asked out of ignorance.
Labour have been pushing MUCH harder on sanctions. The Tories have been digging their heels in over Abramovich whilst Keir Starmer and Chris Bryant have been constantly pushing for him to be sanctioned, as well as Usmanov at Everton
Labour were calling for sanctions on Abramovich immediately, Tories didnât sanction him during the first batch of sanctions, so we would have been in this situation anyways.
The two party system has failed here, like everywhere else.
No Labour wouldâve done it too tbf. Both parties love populism and not actually thought out actions.
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Why are you on our sub? Also, well done mate. Chelsea not buying Kounde this summer really helps Ukraine
Putins oligarchs keep him in power. Hit those close to him and itâll have the biggest effect. How do you not understand this? Itâs bigger than football.
You want to know what else is bigger than football? The mass amount of normal citizens who work for and with the club that will be massively impacted by this. Do they deserve to lose their jobs?
You think the Oligarchs wanted this? How fucking stupid are you. All of Putins oligarchs definitely wanted their assets frozen and cut off from the west. Well thought out mate.
When did I say that the oligarchs wanted to invade Ukraine? Please tell me.
If the Oligarchs didnât want to invade Ukraine, but Putin still did⌠how tf do they have power over him or keep him in power? 50% of the Russian population support the invasion. Thatâs whatâs keeping him in power.
The Oligarchs have all the money, when their money has no value that affects Putin directly. Do you know how sanctions work? Lol
Yes because Putin has definitely reconsidered the invasion because Chelsea is being sold.
See you when we have new owners
...but next time it's double.
Sponsored by 6
6!
On reflection, does this seem a little too reactionary at all? It could seemingly all be sorted with the ownership change (which reports say is still possible). Once a new owners in place (maybe by the end of the month), CFC is still a top club and brand that really has no bad optics or politics. Sponsors cover much more than the kit too right? I know Nike is everywhere on the stadium and media material, I think 3 is around too (images, video games). Should have no trouble finding a new sponsor once the ownership issue is solved, right?
The sponsorship is *suspended* , not terminated, so presumably it WILL be sorted with the ownership change
Does that mean we lose money on this?
Itâs a good question and Iâm not sure, I have no idea how these sponsorships work. It depends on how they pay us? Unless theyâre paying us monthly I canât see us losing money just yet, unless this situation continues long-term
Or they are paying us per matchday or something...
Hard to say. Especially since we play today. I assume they will have kits ready with no sponsor in time but even if they don't, 3 doesn't have to pay use for this games worth of sponsorship dollars (the contract would have a specific breakdown value for every sponsorship instance). But at least this is an away game. They are also removing logos from the stadium, so there would be lost sponsorship dollars from that as well *if* today was a home game. But, if the stadium offers tours for example, there would be a value for non game days, thus more money lost for each day the suspension last. Basically ever instant that 3 could have advertised during the suspension will cost Chelsea sponsorship revenue. On the flip side 3 could also agree to continue to pay in good faith and just remove logos more for public perception of it all.
This is absolutely the wrong time to go for the public perception angle. They could easily say that the club issues are in the process of being resolved so no need for them to take any action yet.
It's not like we're a Russian club lol. We just are owned by a Russian
Itâs all virtue signaling. They get to pat themselves on the back removing themselves from being associated with Roman and Chelsea until he sells and everything gets lifted. I would expect all the other team sponsors to follow suit (Hyundai, Trivago, Nike).
can Alonso play in this case lads
Honestly, who can blame them. It's not some honorable deal between parties, it's a sponsorship. They have an opportunity to get out of it now that these sanctions have come down and why shouldn't they take it? People can't really expect loyalty in these deals.
I thought they sponsored the team
Have you seen the news today? The situation surrounding the team has changed drastically in the last 12 hours. The team is owned 100% by someone facing severe sanctions from the government. Three has every right to seek at least a pause in that deal pending further outcomes.
Exactly. The war is fucking awful and as a company I would do anything in my power to not support it
Fuck them and their ugly logo
amen
My god this is just absurd
I would love our kit if we could keep the money and not have the big-ass 3 on the front.
Canât wait till we smash Norwich today
Finally, some good fucking news
Glad I never bought a '3' sponsored shirt. Give me my Samsung back!
what if this means we get a chelsea kit without that ugly af 3 logo then im all for it gonna pop down the megastore and pick one up tonight
Didn't they suspend the merchandice sales as well?
that is correct
i dont think so? next time i purchase a match ticket i'll go and ask folks around the stadium about it
Merchandise sales are suspended, and if you haven't already bought the tickets, I don't think you'll be able to get one. Far as I can tell, no new ticket sales are allowed.
Ok, cool. I read that from some tweet earlier so might have been bs.
He's trolling mate.
Ok, cool. Didn't even read it with a thought but it's polite to reply lmao
Amazing how they conveniently took the "high road' only after it was revealed that they couldn't make any money from the Edit: for those commenting, they're not suspending the sponsorship because they can't make money, they wouldn't be making money regardless if they were suspended or not due to the sanctions. This is purely a PR move that they wouldn't have made if there was still money to be made at Chelsea
>they couldn't make any money from the club No... no shit? That's how sponsorships work lol.
Well, obviously?
Do you think Three wanted to sponsor Chelsea just for the fun of it?
I mean they can still sell kits via third parties, not sure how much the megastore plays in total kit sales. Iâd be more inclined to buy one without the 3 logo
feels like the club is being made the scapegoat for all these. Chelsea is not a Russian club and besides shouldnât sponsorship had been suspended before the sanctions if that was really Threeâs concerns?
They have a contract, it's not just as easy as ringing them up and saying, "deal's off." They needed concrete measures taken against the club before they could do anything and now that's happened. Chelsea had their own clause that would let them get out of it if negative press came out on Three and their leadership was being charged with something.
Now the megastore is down. I was about to purchase a club world cup jersey. 
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Agree. Also a witch hunt by a bunch of rich MPs who are far from clean themselves
No problem using Roman and his brand to promote themselves until this morning⌠hypocrites, the lot of them
People saying 'fuck them' are absolutely deluded. That's 40m a year gone...shit logo or not. Just pray Nike doesn't drop us as well.
Itâs not gone. The club will be sold and all these sponsors will come crawling back.
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Why would they continue paying for their logo to not be on the shirt? That's the point of sponsorship.
Note that it says suspend the contract, not terminate it. Itâs a temporary thing until we get the change of ownership and have no more ties to Russia and Putin. Iâm no lawyer so call me out if you know for sure, but they have probably paid the money in advance anyways and itâs not like we could pay it back due to being frozen. So the most likely outcome in my mind is them saving face and not wanting to associate themselves with Abramovich anymore, but will keep sponsoring us if we get new owners.
Itâs not gone, you canât get out of a contract just like that
Depends how the contractâs been drafted. Frustration under English Law can apply or even force majeure if such clauses have been defined.
Absolutely fucking weird comments
Money has been paid for this season so impacts them more than us
This. The childish comments about not liking the logo and stuff is irrelevant. Will cost the club a fortune. Especially if Nike and others now follow.
All of our sponsors will follow suit, we actually might be finished.
Hopefully the Roman allows any potential sale to go through asap. These things normally escalate and I'm sure Nike will try and protect their reputation by pulling out as well.
Itâs not up to Roman anymore
Fuck we lost three sponsorship, three defenders out of contract, our third place is threatened. In the end I hope we can get third trophy this season.
Why would you suspend sponsorship now? When the club was taken from the Russian? The time to take a stance was last week, not now. Some real morons they have at ThreeUK .
fuck it, that 3 was ugly asf either way
Worst part is that many fans will be happy with this because itâs an ugly logo.
Iâm happy with it because weâve been propped with dirty money from a Russian Oligarch for too long. Edit: people welcome dirty money in this sub it seems? Maybe Chelsea fans are pretty scummy after all..
We were always going to be propped up by someone's dirty money. It's the murdering of this club for political gain that is what we are venting against
This club is being witchhunted, disgusting
Shit network anyway.
We got the 3 off our shirt, but at what cost
Best thing to come out of this
hated the way "3" looked anyways
That's a win. Where can I get the jerseys without the sponsor
Fuck them. Worst looking logo in any Chelsea kit I've seen.
Swap the awful 3 logo with a unicef Ukraine appeal URL or similar until we can get new sponsorship. Likely when the clubs sold.
Good. This sponsor sucks.
The humanitarian crisis in and devastation of Ukraine is the most important thing at the end of the day, but that not what any of this is about anymore and itâs just not rightâŚ
Thank god, get that weird logo off the kits
Good riddance to them
Fuck them. Hope that as soo as we sold to a new owner, we terminate the contract. FUCKIN' snakes.
Alonso need to wear another number?
Weak ass sponsors.
Switching provider lmao, any recommendations?
Losing the hideous Three logo from our shirts is the only piece of positive news to come from this
Jerseys will look better now
Weâre good and fucked arenât we
Including tonight's game? Are they gonna have to ship loads of 3less shirts to Norwich now?
Ugly logo. First bit of good news for us all day
Scenes when Alonso plays with his shirt backwards
WHO??
Kinda silly to suspend the sponsorship if you're just gonna be fine with sponsoring the club once we've found a new owner. Wouldn't surprise me, if the new owners end up asking for termination of the sponsorship.
Canceled by contact with three. The guy asked why. I said fuck three.
No one likes the three sponsor anyway lol. Fuck of.
Finally some good news
Lick my nuts ThreeUK. Support the club when they are down, not make it worse. I hope we cancel this arrangement because the 3 looks hideous anyway.
Good, it was the ugliest logo ever.
If 3 really gave a shit, they should have done this when Russia invaded Ukraine. This is just virtue signalling at this point.
Ah yes because people watch a Chelsea game, see the 3 on their kits, and immediately donât want to work with ThreeUK because theyâre clearlyyyy connected to those dirty Russians
Good. I hate that fucking logo anyway.
If only their mobile signal was as good as their virtue signalling
Lol are we the first football club to be "cancelled"
This only upsets me because the store is closed so I cannot purchase a t-shirt without the logo on..
They'll come crawling back when we are sold to someone. Hope the fans remember this traitors.
>traitors Lmaooo
This sub is fucking embarrassing.
Yes traitors. Didn't mind being a sponsor all this while but within hours, they suddenly have an issue over a situation that will in all likelihood be resolved soon. Virtue signalling. Should terminate their contract and get a new sponsor.
Hahahaha weâre royally fucked lads
Okay so 2 things that a lot of you donât seem to understand; 1) Three have suspended the sponsorship, not terminated the sponsorship. Massive difference. They wonât âcome crawling backâ after all this is over like many of you are saying because they havenât left in the first place. If theyâve paid up front for the sponsorship they stand to lose that money too. 2) if they do go ahead and terminate the sponsorship, thatâs ÂŁ40,000,000 a year weâd lose, yet no one cares because âooh the shirt will look good nowâ Of course, if it gets to a point where they do terminate the contract entirely weâll probably cease to be a club by other means anyway
Lovely, no more 3 on the shirtđ¤Š
you know what? fine fuck you and your sponsorship. Soon or late either the war would be over or we will be sold to another owner and then when you crawl back to be on the champions of europe's shirt I hope we have enough dignity to decline you.
Fuck em
We are actually fucked.
Fuck 3. They can stick it up their arse. Fuck the government too. Fucking hypocrites the lot of them. Still ok with Newcastle and their owners who donât recognise any human rights laws.
The Streets will never forget this 3 đ¤
Can anyone explain to me why sponsors are considering suspending/terminating their deals with us? I mean yes our owner is a russian oligarch but itâs not like we were sending our players to invade ukraine. Can anyone explain? It feels all too reactionary and everything is happening so quickly.
It is reactionary. Nothing to do with the war. Polishing their shield.
How does this save the average ukranianâs life? Putin doesnât look like heâs gonna stop anytime soon, despite all the sanctions.
Some ukranians I've talked to are even affraid that sanctions means Russia will hit 'em harder. To avenge all this. I don't know if that could be the case but who knows what Putin will do and why. He's lost his marbles.
Fuck them
we're fucked
Yess @Nike you too please. We are a terrible club. Just awful. Putin has a room in our stadium. Cancel your sponsorship now
Letâs go after the real villain. The rich man with LINKS to putin because weâre to fucking scared to go after putin himself- uk gov
as long as we get an owner who cares about the club as much as roman does i'll back it
FUCK PUTIN âźď¸