The Russian lads are both Jews who have protection from the Israeli government due to their "donations". ENIC have funded some Israeli team. Bascombe has alluded to these 3 clubs being an "axis" of distruption to annoy teams transfer plans - namely ours. E.g. Spurs shadow us for nearly everyone and tried to scupper the Sissoko deal, the loan deals between Spurs/Pompey etc..