Bruce Buck
Bruce Buck
Bruce M. Buck is an American lawyer and founding managing partner of the London office of law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. He is also Chairman of Chelsea Football Club. His practice areas are European mergers and acquisitions, project finance and capital markets...
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The overall loss increase is, in the main, down to some exceptional items that were necessary in order to help us achieve our strategic business aim of break even by 2009-10. In simple terms, we have taken some pain now for long-term gain. He appreciates that this is a long-term strategy and he supports where we are and where we are going.
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The past three weeks, teams haven't thrown the ball his way.
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We are not overly happy but respect the decision made by the panel. We are not likely to appeal but would like to reserve the right to while waiting to hear the official reasoning from UEFA.
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I'm sure there'll be conversations about the tapping-up rule and let's see what develops. The rules could certainly be tweaked in this area.
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If Jose's not working, he wants to be with his family. Roman isn't very big on going to black tie dinners and things. He tends to hang around with people he's known since his twenties, and they tend to be his Russian friends.
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It makes things a little bit harder, but we'll be okay.
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It was important to Roman when he bought the club that it was in the Champions League because he wanted to accomplish something immediately,
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He appreciates that this is a long-term strategy and he supports where we are and where we are going.
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For the next five days, lawyers worked day and night; they gave us a lot of financial information, so we understood there was an urgency.