Chelsea's money at work

Overheal

http://gizmodo.com/5059249/chelsea-football-club-owner-building-400-million-mega+yacht-with-submarine-missile-defenses
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1069270/Floating-fortress-Chelsea-owner-Abramovich-builds-200m-super-yacht-complete-anti-missile-radar.html

Russian billionaire and Chelsea soccer club owner Roman Abramovich is building a $400 million mega-yacht. Yawn, you say? You have two? OK, well, this yacht has its own submarine. And armor plating with bulletproof glass. And little boats that fit inside the bigger boat. And a frickin' missile defense system that will alert he and his crew of 70 former SAS soldiers that there be pirates in those waters. It should be noted that Abramovich's other yachts—the 377 ft. Pelorus, 282ft Ecstasea and 160ft Sussurro—all pale in comparison to the 550 ft. Eclipse, and do not include missile detection systems. You can never be too safe, right?

The Eclipse, so named because Abramovich desires that it overshadow all other boats at sea, also includes an escape submarine, just in case pirates or other rapscallions make it on board. The submarine seats two, so Abramovich and his gorgeous girlfriend Daria Zhukova, 26, can make a hasty flight to safer waters (or go down to 160 ft. deep) while his hired guns secure the decks.

Abramovich's Eclipse will also have room for 24 guests, a cinema, aquarium, disco and a hospital. But no weapons—under maritime law, private vessels are banned from carrying them. Hence, the yellow submarine action and missile defenses that border on paranoia.

Is he a member of the KGB or something? What the hell do you need with all of that crap to sail down to the Mediterranean?

estebancambias

overheal in the soccer forum??? Outragous.

Overheal

estebancambias wrote: »

overheal in the soccer forum??? Outragous.

well when the story is this bizarre - I had to.

stovelid

He's laundering his money by splashing out on a wildly over-priced, overly defensive, ugly, functional vessel.

Sound familiar?

growler

what has this got to do with football ?

String

Sounds like hes preparing for WW3. He must know somehting :pac:

If hes going to have a crew like that its going to cost more than 400million easil especially since they are full time

iregk

So are we to assume now that any story what so ever once it involvs someone with any sort of links to football belongs in the football forum?

I mean what on earth is this doing in this forum?

Lets all discuss Coleen McLoughlin's new perfume range. After all she is going out with a football so it righfully belongs on this forum!!!

zAbbo

Missile detection system is useless against Steven Segal

Boggles

iregk wrote: »

Lets all discuss Coleen McLoughlin's new perfume range. After all she is going out with a football so it righfully belongs on this forum!!!

The ship has a missile system dude!

iregk

Boggles wrote: »

The ship has a missile system dude!

Hahaha. Sorry my bad.

I'm interested in who is the cook? Or is he just a cook?

armour87

He's paranoid.

rossie1977

chelsea's money??? that be millions of poor duped russians money at work chelsea have alot more going out than coming in

yahoo_moe

iregk wrote: »

she is going out with a football

Well he certainly looks like he's been kicked about a bit.

roryc

growler wrote: »

what has this got to do with football ?

Roman Abramovich owns Chelsea Football Club, im guessing that was the link the OP was going for

loyatemu

I presume it has a large red button to summon Godzilla?

Fratton Fred

I'd have one.

Lets face it, it doesn;t matter how fat, ugly and smelly you are. own one of those babies and the chicks will be queueing up at the gangplank.

pickarooney

stovelid wrote: »

He's laundering his money by splashing out on a wildly over-priced, overly defensive, ugly, functional vessel.

Sound familiar?

Darius is moving to Chelsea??

monkey9

loyatemu wrote: »

I presume it has a large red button to summon Godzilla?

He's probably already got Godzilla in the aquarium

The_Hustler

As already stated, this is abramovich's money. He's pumping money into chelsea, not making money from them.

Overheal

Boggles wrote: »

The ship has a missile system dude!

Missile detection system. International law forbids private vessels to carry ordnance.

loyatemu wrote: »

I presume it has a large red button to summon Godzilla?

After all: its 2008. We HAVE the technology...

ghouldaddy07

Overheal wrote: »

Missile detection system. International law forbids private vessels to carry ordnance.



After all: its 2008. We HAVE the technology...

Simply Fantastic

The Man city owners should get a similar boat and take the fight to the sea's.

Would love if he got a football pitch put on and took chelsea on tour.