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Football agent Saif Rubie has denied intentionally threatening the then Chelsea director Marina Granovskaia saying to do so would have been a ‘suicide mission’ a court heard.
In a dramatic day at Southwark Crown Court, Rubie, who is accused of sending a threatening email to Granovskaia in his efforts to recover what he believed was a £300,000 payment for his role in Kurt Zouma’s move from Chelsea to West Ham in the summer of 2021, refuted claims he intended to cause stress or anxiety to the former Blues supremo, saying doing so would be tantamount to a ‘suicide mission’ given her links to Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, previous owner at Stamford Bridge.
Rubie claimed: ‘I’m sending an email to a woman who is the
