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#8 Roman Abramovich originally wanted to buy Tottenham Hotpsur
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Spurs have a history of bad luck. They were relegated in 1919, in favour of Arsenal, they lost their Champions League spot in 2012 to Chelsea who had won the competition and in 2003 they were unlucky that Russian Billionaire took over Chelsea instead of them.
Former England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson revealed that Abrahimovic had his eyes set on Spurs before an intervention from Eriksson led to the Russian taking over Chelsea.
Eriksson had close ties with Abrahimovic and the Swede revealed that Abrahimovic had asked himabout which London based club to takeover. To which Eriksson replied:
‘I said if you want to win the league then Chelsea – because you only have to change half of the team.
‘At that time with Tottenham maybe you would have had to change the whole team.’
The goal by Jesper Grønkjær on the final matchday of the 2002-03 season that gave Chelsea a win against Liverpool and allowed them to qualify for next season’s Champions League meant that Abrahimovic had finally found his club.
