{"id":292539,"date":"2023-10-30T18:26:40","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T18:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/?p=292539"},"modified":"2023-10-30T18:26:40","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T18:26:40","slug":"premier-league-investigating-secret-payments-made-by-chelsea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/soccer\/premier-league-investigating-secret-payments-made-by-chelsea\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League &apos;investigating secret payments made by Chelsea&apos;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Chelsea &#8216;investigated over Willian and Samuel Eto&#8217;o transfers&#8217;, with Premier League looking into alleged &#8216;secret payments made to Russian entities&#8217; under Roman Abramovich<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Premier League are reportedly investigating previous dealings at the club<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Chelsea previously signed Willian and Samuel Eto&#8217;o from a Russian club in 2013<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Follow Mail Sport&#8217;s new Chelsea WhatsApp channel for all the breaking news<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A Premier League investigation into Chelsea&#8217;s transfer dealings during the Roman Abramovich era is looking at secret payments made by the club when they signed Willian and Samuel Eto, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>The former Blues pair completed their transfers to Chelsea in August 2013 from Russian side\u00a0Anzhi Makhachkala and have been flagged for further investigation, as claimed by The Times.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Abramovich sold Chelsea to Todd Boehly last year\u00a0in a \u00a34.2billion deal after the government sanctioned the former owner in March following Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Premier League have been looking into dealings under the club&#8217;s former ownership and the transactions regarding Willian and Eto&#8217;s arrivals at Stamford Bridge are now being looked into.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea&#8217;s current owners led by Boehly, reportedly flagged the transfers while they were in the process of purchasing the club from\u00a0Abramovich.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/30\/17\/77185731-0-image-a-1_1698688789061.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>A Premier League investigation into Chelsea&#8217;s transfer dealings during the Roman Abramovich era is looking into secret payments<\/p>\n<p>Brazilian winger Willian joined Chelsea in a \u00a330m deal from Russian team\u00a0Anzhi Makhachkala 10-years ago after initially appearing set to join Tottenham.<\/p>\n<p>Former Barcelona and Inter Milan striker Eto&#8217;o followed in the same transfer window after taking a \u00a310m pay cut to be part of Jose Mourinho&#8217;s squad at Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p>More to follow.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12689801\/Premier-League-secret-payments-Chelsea-Roman-Abramovich.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea &#8216;investigated over Willian and Samuel Eto&#8217;o transfers&#8217;, with Premier League looking into alleged &#8216;secret payments made to Russian entities&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292538,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Premier League &amp;apos;investigating secret payments made by Chelsea&amp;apos; 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