Roman Abramovich's Chelsea ownership unchanged beyond PR

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A day after Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich handed over the "stewardship and care" of the Premier League club to its charitable foundation trustees, declaring he always had "the club’s best interest at heart," several issues remain.

What has been heard from Abramovich is a vague suggestion of ceding control of Chelsea without legally doing so.

What hasn’t been heard is condemnation by Chelsea and its Russian oligarch owner of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Not even in the statement issued by Chelsea on Sunday about what it called the "conflict in Ukraine" and described as "horrific and devastating" with no mention of the aggressor behind the war: Russia.

"Everyone at the club is praying for peace," the west London club urged in an unusual statement from a football team touching on geopolitics around coverage on its website building up to the League Cup final meeting with Liverpool later in the day at Wembley Stadium.

The words didn’t go far enough for one member of the British Parliament. Chris Bryant, a legislator with the opposition Labour Party, raised objections to Abramovich in the House of Commons earlier in the week and said "seizing some of his assets" should be considered by the government.

"Unless and until he condemns the criminal invasion of Ukraine," Bryant tweeted Sunday, "I will continue to call for the UK to sanction him and seize/freeze assets."

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