zib

chelsea just paid out 18m in shareholders div. hello....the club is owned by abramovitch, hence no dividend.

there were no dividends last year for chelsea, now there is. i take it this is a bug?

retired_slashhat

Abravovitch as an individual has loaned, not given Chelsea Ltd over £400M since he purchased them.

There has not been any dividend so far in real life as Chelsea has been trading at a massive loss, but if in the game they are making excessive profits then it is perfectly reasonable to me for him to claw some of it back.

FitnessandNrg

He dint loan...he invested. Also a 1 man company can get dividends...Abramovich can take all the money out as dividend if he wants to. However its not owned just by Abramovich...the chairman also owns a tiny little bit like 0.001%

retired_williams

Loaned, invested, makes no real difference as he owns Chelsea outright. Just double checked - he's put £440M in). Shareholders (Abramovitch) are still entitled to take whatever proportion of profits they want as a dividend, as it appears they have in the case in question.

retired_ehoff15

"waiting for the first person to come in this threa and suggest only PLC would give out divident...."

skinny

i had this a few seasons ago with man utd.

waqs the same amount aswell 18 mill to shareholders. i found it abit odd.

probs another bug.

least its not doing it every season lol

zib

chelsea is not a plc. neither is man u

...and i made a 38m loss in my first year...so even if it was a plc, they wouldnt be paying divs anyway

retired_twins12

Nope, any limited company can pay out dividends to the shareholders, not just plc's.

zib

Nope, any limited company can pay out dividends to the shareholders, not just plc's. </BLOCKQUOTE>

ok..give us an example. from the prem league

FitnessandNrg

Any company can pay dividends. If 1 person owns the company they can take out as much money as they want from the company because its there company.