Of course the status symbol element plays a part too.
...that if Usmanov was using Everton as a vehicle to launder money, why would he need to do that?
Prior to 2022 nobody in the west (other than the US govt?) seemed to care where Russian oligarchs' money came from. It was all gravy, liberally splashed around.
Unless Usmanov forsaw Russia's invasion of Ukraine in around 2020 and wanted his fixer Moshiri to help him hide money? But "hide" in a Premier League football club??
Or (as I long surmised the case with Abramovich) he wanted to raise his profile in the west to protect himself from falling off a balcony or finding "supplements" in his tea if he ever incurred Putin's wrath.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/sep/26/everton-fc-owner-alisher-usmanov-farhad-moshiri
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