The Chelsea sale process is temporarily suspended following the announced economic sanctions imposed on Roman Abramovich,
owner of the London club, whose assets in the United Kingdom, including the Premier League club, have been frozen by the British government.
Last week it was Abramovich himself who announced - perhaps out of fear that a similar situation would occur - the sale of the club, world and European champions in office.
The Foreign Office, specifying that the measure - with freezing of assets and travel ban - announced that the measure concerns, in addition to the outgoing patron of Chelsea, the magnate Oleg Deripaska, the number one of the state energy giants Gazprom and Rosneft, Aleksei Miller and Igor Secin, as well as bankers Andre Kostin and Dmitri Lebedev, and Nikolai Tokarev, president of the public pipeline giant Transneft.
However, Chelsea intend to ask the British government to review and modify the restrictive measures imposed on the London club following the freezing of assets owned by Roman Abramovich.
The sanctions suffered by the Russian oligarch not only led to the suspension of the sale of the Stamford Bridge company, but also to the closure of merchandise stores and the ban on the sale of tickets for future matches, in addition to the blocking of the market, entry and exit.
