Chelsea chairman Bruce Buck has said that owner Roman Abramovich is "committed" to the club despite not having been to a game since May last year.
The Russian billionaire, who has overseen a period of unprecedented success at Stamford Bridge since he bought the club in 2003, was not issued with a new UK visa when his previous one expired last May.
He subsequently relocated from London to Israel, and it was recently revealed he did not but any corporate boxes at Chelsea before this season despite having spent between £1 million and £3 million on corporate hospitality boxes every year since 2011, per Martyn Ziegler in the Times.