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Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich is not interested in \u201cbargain\u201d bids for the Premier League club and remains fully involved at Stamford Bridge, according to chairman Bruce Buck.<\/p>\nChelsea owner Roman Abramovich is not interested in \u201cbargain\u201d bids for the Premier League club and remains fully involved at Stamford Bridge, according to chairman Bruce Buck.<\/p>\n
The Russian billionaire is not believed to have attended a home match since the spring of 2018, having taken Israeli citizenship after encountering visa renewal issues in the UK.<\/p>\n
Plans for a new 60,000-seat stadium were shelved around the same time, but Buck insists Abramovich has no intention to offload the club.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo far as I know, absolutely not; to the contrary. I have never heard a word from Mr Abramovich: \u2018Let\u2019s get this ready for a sale,\u2019 or something,\u201d Buck told the Guardian.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause of the political situation, there are people who think they might want to buy Chelsea Football Club at a bargain. We do get inquiries and we really have nothing to say to these people.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn terms of being involved, in looking at new players, talking about whether to extend players\u2019 contracts, do we buy this player, do we sell this player, (Abramovich) was always intimately involved in that from day one and is just as intimately involved now.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe talks to Marina (Granovskaia) \u2013 the board member who supervises the football operation \u2013 several times a day, every day. Marina has been doing that for seven or eight years; that hasn\u2019t let up or changed at all.\u201d<\/p>\n