Abramovich also suffers from the crisis

Russian tycoon Roman Abramovich, affected by the financial crisis, is studying the possibility of selling the London-Chelsea or his luxury yacht "Pelorus", said several Russian media.

Depreciation of assets and other effects of the crisis would have reduced the personal wealth of Abramovich 16,700 million euros to just 2,300 million, said the official Russian agency Prime-Tass, citing German sources.

In this situation, the tycoon choose between selling Chelsea, which since July 2003 has invested some 210 million euros, including debts of the club, or his yacht, the 115 meters in length and valued at about 200 million euros.

"Pelorus" with a crew of half a hundred people, two ports and helicopter equipped with an antimissile system to defend against pirates and terrorists, is from November in Barcelona for some maintenance work and modernization.

The press quoted an expert on financial transactions in football and former manager of two German clubs, which states that "the rumors about the sale of Chelsea circulating since last November" and the magnate "who you're looking organizes the transaction ".

Chelsea already has imposed a strict regime of savings, have been sacked 15 recruiters who together paid 156,000 euros per year and has been suspended free lunch for the players in the canteen of the club, according to the Russian TV channel "Vesti-24."

According to Prime-Tass, Abramovich has canceled an evening in which on the eve of New Year gathering was intended to 60 friends and guests at Aspen, the most luxurious American alpine ski station.

In return, the millionaire commissioned a dinner of the New Year's night in a luxury Moscow hotel overlooking the very Kremlin and Red Square, by which the peanuts paid five million rubles, about 120,000 euros, according to the newspaper digital Life.ru.

"On the Eve, the bells of the Kremlin's chime for Abramovich personally," his girlfriend, former model and gallery owner Dasha Zhukova, and the friend of both, the renowned restaurateur Russian Aleksandr Novikov, said the newspaper company.

Abramovich demanded that the dinner's Eve he and his friends are cared for by their own staff, not the hotel, whose units will be monitored by the bodyguards of the tycoon.

According

Life.ru, Abramovich, in particular, commissioned for dinner "blinis", the Russian crepes or pancakes with caviar of salmon, oysters and other delicacies, in addition to several dozen bottles of champagne, Dom Perignon Rose 1998 , To 2,000 euros each.

Meanwhile, a resident of Latvia, the country that lives the biggest recession in the European Union, published on the Internet an open letter to Abramovich, already supported by 400 signatures, which proposes to buy back the Baltic State magnate.

The author explains that Latvia is "bankrupt" and that 7,500 billion euros it expects to receive from the IMF, the EBRD, the EU and the Nordic countries and Eastern Europe "will disappear into the pockets of officials" or will be spent on costly projects, while "the standard of living of the population will drop to ground level."

"I ask you to consider buying Latvia, whose advantages are very few inhabitants and voluntary workers, a very green and much room for your yacht anchor," in the Baltic Sea coast, the author pointed to the letter .