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Chelsea's players, coaches and agents are now football's wealthiest millionaires. Surely the billions taken from the Russian people by an oligarch in questionable privatisations couldn't be better spent?
Simon Kuper
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Simon Kuper
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 15
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