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Former Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has claimed that potential buyers of Chelsea will never meet Roman Abramovich’s spending power.
The Club World Cup winner are likely to lose the Russian billionaire, who is selling the club as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The oligarch has set an asking price of around £3 billion for anyone to buy the club, which suggests whoever is the next owner may not be inclined to pour more funds into the team.
Asked if the new owners are likely to spend big, Wenger told beIN SPORTS: “You cannot. Today you cannot put that money in, privately, that is impossible. It is limited to, I think, £200m over three years. At that time you could put a billion in.
“I always advised people who wanted to buy football clubs, instead of putting £100m in every year, put £500m in in the first year and buy the right players, then you have a team. He could do that and he did very well and today I think the club is managed very well and is at a top level.”
He went on to add: “It is still sustainable as a football club today because they are at a good level. But after that when you come in it is down to money and good decisions.
“Sometimes people have good decisions but no money, sometimes they have money but they make bad decisions. So you have to put the two together.”