Chelsea Training Kit Sponsor Trivago Release Statement Concerning Sponsorship

Chelsea Football Club's training kit sponsor, Trivago have released a statement as it concerns the current partnership with the club.

The kit sponsor released a statement on their official website just a few hours after the club's jersey sponsor suspended their partnership with Chelsea. According to the statement, they have decided to stick with the club through its current predicament.

As a global travel brand, we believe in connecting and bringing people together. These are values shared by Chelsea Football Club, an institution that is now 117 years old with a tradition so vitally important to its fans and communities, both locally and globally, and that is why we decided to partner with the Club last year.The uncertainty over the current ownership situation of Chelsea FC has been challenging. Moving forward, it is important to us to continue supporting the club, the fans and community along with the essential work that the Chelsea Foundation does to help those in need. We are looking forward to a transition of ownership as soon as possible and want to support the club in this process. We will provide any update to our business relationship if and when appropriate.As a company of global citizens, we cannot condone the unprovoked and catastrophic invasion of Ukraine. We believe in a free world, freedom of speech and peace. We continue our efforts together with our teams to support the humanitarian efforts and to ease the suffering of the affected population. We stand with Ukraine.

Chelsea are currently in a state of limbo following the decision by the UK government to freeze the assets of Roman Abramovich in which includes the football Club.