Government takes the view that football is at the heart of local community and they do not want to disrupt a local club. However their reported sanctioning of Chelsea will cause a major disruption for the club on many levels in the near term.
As always with Boris' rule they tend to act then think. Will be very interesting to see how this plays out and if Chelsea is supported to remain stable until a new owner is in place.
Im sure a resolution will take considerable time to be found.
As a glass half full merchant (or in the case of Palace, brimming over) I just hope that the outcome sees us getting at least one more season out of Connor but preferably a permanent move.

If this was a legal dispute and the court had granted a worldwide freezing order over a trading company's assets, the court could and would appoint a reciever to manage the assets in the interim. This would ususlally be an accountant. They would trade the business, sell the tickets (and possibly players) pay the wages and other bills and retain any profit under their control on behalf of the court, for the court to resolve later.
That seems to me to be the obvious solution here, but even so I doubt the club brings in enough to pay the wages. He doesnt make any money out of Chelsea, I belive his loans to the club are now some £3bn.
This will mean redundancies as I doubt the highly paid prima donna's who play for them will be willing to do so for nothing.

Following Palace since 25 Feb 1978

Anyone know how long Conor’s contract with Chelsea is?

It's a long long contract - he extended with them just before the loan

My understanding is that he signed a 5-year deal in 2020.

It seems being Russian is a crime at the moment. we don't appear to have offically declared war against the Russian Federation, so why are all these sportspersons being banned as if they tacitly support the invasion?