Sven-Goran Eriksson advised Abramovich to buy Chelsea rather than Spurs

Eriksson advised Abramovich to buy Chelsea you've had interesting relationships with with an awful lot of the new football club Owners that I I would call them Roman Abramovic being one of them and and you you advised him to buy Chelsea yeah I did yes I did that's true that's true he because he he wanted to buy a club in Russia to start with and I was on my holiday so I went with him and other people to Russia to Moscow to see the f fa ities in two or three other the clubs but then he changed his mind I don't know why and he said now he wanted to buy a club in London so he was thinking about Chelsea or Tottenham so they phoned me and said who shall he buy and I said if you want to win the league Chelsea is closer um because at that time I'm talking about that time I I said you only have to change half of the team Tottenham at that time maybe the whole team and he understood that did he Erikssons wife has a computer because you also revealed that his wife had a computer with a database of all the players in the world on it well she had a computer and fantastic and he lived for football and she as well he never does interviews What does Abramovich like what I mean what's he like you you actually the first time you met him you you shook hands with three different people first and you thinking they were him because they were smarter but when you meet him the first time you you can't really uh understand that he's uh the richest of one of the richest men in the world because he stand with his feet on the ground and he's very nice very polite and um yeah he's I like him I liked him I haven't seen him now for many many years and but um do you wish he'd worked for him do you wish he'd been his manager yeah of course I wished that today no but at that time yes

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