They would be in one of the most uncomfortable situations a top club has ever been in. Not only would they have to sell all of their best (and mid tier) players, they would also have to take the revenue they were currently earning and use the majority of it to begin paying Mr. Abromovich back. Yikes!!! This would also mean they would not be able to reinforce the team with players so they would end up sinking to a team at the bottom of the Premier League. They would be placed in a worse situation than before he bought them.

Some conglomerate of fat cigar smoking Merkins would snap it up, mortgaging the Club up to the hilt to get the funds to buy it.

Then they would transport all the players across the water to form a new team called Chelsea Hotdogs or something catchy like that. They would be based at the University of Michigan Stadium where there is sufficient capacity to accommodate a decent crowd, rather than that "piddling little shed at Stamford Bridge" (that's what they call it over there).

All this would really just be to spite the "Rooskies" for being devious commies and having the audacity to try beating that all-American good-guy (Bobby Fischer), at chess, using hypnosis and microwave beams and all such things.

I know all this because I am a true Manchester United "In The Know" fan and the Glazers showed me the business plan over a nice lunch of hot dogs, Big Kahuna Burgers and Budweiser ??.

Anyhow, don't quote me on this, or we will all get done for insider trading, when it hits the stock-market.

Now that he has lead Chelsea to a high level club, even if he leaves Chelsea will stay a big club, because what he has built will not vanish. Merchandising has improved, number of fans too. Chelsea is capable of raising money by its own, and during the last years he has not spent much money of his own.

Moreover, with the new financial rules set by the UEFA, he will not be able to spend the kind of money he used to when he came to Chelsea.

The club owe him something like ￡250million in personal loans, so if he left they would be plunged into extreme debt overnight.

That would mean they would have to raise money to pay him back, which would mean they have to sell all their assets.

They would begin to struggle as they lost their best players and eventually end up a mediocre team, which is what they were before he arrived.

End up like Leeds

End up like Portsmouth.

What would happen if Roman Abramovic abandoned Chelsea F.C.? Would a new owner move in and continue the club's "big money" status or would it return to the financially modest club it was prior to 2004's big swoop?