Todd is the sports guy, he wants to sort the stadium, he wants to win trophies, Clearlake are asset management, they manage assets, they have applied this to footballers, hence the transfer business, buy, manage, sell. Todd made clear at the beginning that he believes the best way to profit as a sports team is to win trophies. He's taken the public backlash for all of the collective owners decisions, he's the nearest thing we will ever get to another Roman.
I am familiar with Boehly’s actions when he got involved with the LA Dodgers. Boehly does not bull shit around. He has his belief system in how to build a championship team and he is ruthless in that pursuit. He sold veteran proven MLB players, loaded up with young talent and built a team that won championships and competed for league titles and championships year in and year out. I will admit I don’t know much about the Clearlake guys but Boehly renovated the Dodgers stadium and made it more fan friendly. It took a few seasons but even now no team in the MLB looks forward to a series against the Dodgers. He is a competitive dude that only accepts winning. He also has not runaway from taking all the heat that has been directed at the club over the last two seasons. Getting the stadium up for fans has to be a priority for Boehly. Knowing what I know as a Chelsea fan I can only hope he is the last man standing. Sorry for the short story guys. Todd Boehly is a bad MF’er and has connections in the Saudi world of business. Don’t sell him short. If he is bought out he will invest in another team because he sees potential and loves competition.
I don't follow baseball, but I've seen rave reviews about the Dodgers almost everywhere. That's also what got me invested into the current consortium over others. To move away from that for me is like having a whole different custodian.
"Behdad and Boehly are exploring options to buy each other out" TRANSLATION: They are both looking for legal and financial ways to get rid of the other and take full control of the club's direction.
Boehly would have to get different partners to be able to buy out Clearlake. Boehly is driven by making sports teams successful both on and off the field. Clearlake are looking for profit, how they want to go about that has always been a question. The problem Boehly had was the club was sold as the transfer window opened, we had Rudi and Chris leaving on frees. Alonso, Werner and Azpi wanted to leave and Lukaku didn't want to play for us. Cech decided to leave despite him being asked to stay. I suspect Marina and the rest of the board had to go due to the irregularities found in the books. TT didn't want to get involved in transfers. So we had no time to get a sporting director in with players we quickly needed to replace not to mention the players that weren't good enough and injuries - which we continued to have that season and last season. Boehly made errors no doubt, but the situation played a large part of that imo.
From a fan's perspective I would certainly choose the Boehly approach of seriously trying to win, rather than the current. I think a certain balance can be hit even with current consortium if they come to their senses. It's like they suffer so much PTSD from the first window that they refuse to budge even a bit in the other direction again. We need to overcome that and find a balance. I want us to be a football club, not a financial corporation.
In terms of an ownership "divorce", I cannot see Todd having the financial muscle to buyout Clearlake. And it's Behdad we've seen at games with the SDs. I wonder what will happen...
He doesn’t need to have the money himself. He needs to be able to raise it. And for someone like Boehly that’s a couple of phone calls. Get rid of Egbahly. The dude has stunk out the place since he got here. Dude even looks like a slimeball
@RS-vy9qv Sorry, do you understand that Eghbali has 62% of shares and he is the boss. Majority shareholders not allow to sell for 10 years. Boehly already made mistake by making phone call to Eghbali and asking to invest money. You are asking him to make another phone call? When he has no money, better he enjoy minority investment in Dodgers
Is this just a well timed (international break) placed article from the clearlake side to address the UK media constantly referencing Todd as the main man which we know he isn't
Been here since the end of Sarri-ball, keep up the great work Yan! As long as I’m a Chelsea supporter (which is until I die) and Football Therapy is on TH-cam I’m here!
Boehly I think is not on board with the recruiting. Look at what the Dodgers did with the Ohtani signing. I think that’s more the kind of deals he likes to pursue.
Exactly this. They don’t see eye to eye and that is okay. If you recall, Todd wanted a big name signing such as Neymar. He signed Koulibaly, Auba for ridiculous money. I do believe Clearlake are on the right track but there’s a big big difference in the construction of the team.
@@hnaku8748 yeah I agree. I’ll take the sports guy over the private equity guy personally. To Boehly I get the feeling it’s a sports project first, and an investment 2nd. I think Clearlake is on it for the investment and return primarily. And I do think Eghbali cares and is interested in the sporting side of things and making Chelsea good again, but he approaches it through the lens of the corporate board/asset management aspect of it all before anything else. They both care, they just have different priorities. They need like a mediating voice between them. Like hey Todd stop trying to buy everyone like this is FIFA career mode with the cash injection turned on, and also hey Behdad stop being a penny pincher and pay Osimhen his damn wages.
I still can’t believe how utterly clueless those people who protested the Ricketts family buying Chelsea. They would’ve been so much better as owners. As a Chicago resident who has seen them in action, they were the perfect fit based on the similarities of the Chicago Cubs and Chelsea FC. We missed out big time!
i wouldve liked there to be more of a strategy involved in the singing of players, 250 mil on caicedo and enzo and they dont complement each other well, thats just poor. that first season under this ownership could not have gone worse, not one signing made us a better team, we went from ucl winners and top four easy to less then mid table. yes the lukaku situation and not renewing contracts like rudiger, christensen and kante, not signing declan rice like we shouldve years ago for half the price of enzo or caicedo was poor.
Somewhere in between. There's hints of truth in it given what we've seen happen at the club before and after takeover. But yeah also certainly keeps fans busy during international break.
PS, I have only read the caption... So this comment is my hot take. I think Todd is not the problem, but Clearlake is... Todd's first instinct as bad as it was, was to buy experience players whom the streets said were good and could help... Then boom, they got sporting directors and all that nonsense and the ship went a different direction, and I think they chose to listen to the members with the most votes in the board, and that's Clearlake, and they went with their vision... And that's how Todd lost his own direction of buying experienced players and we started going the data analytics route with the SDs...
But there has been some positives from it. We managed to get Palmer, Paez/Estevao who look to be promising talents. The best is to get a good mixof young and lld which I don't get why it can't happen. If both owners can't see eye to eye how can the fans trust the long term process they are trying to do. Just pathetic from all owners in my opinion
@@ChampStan Data analytics approach was always going to be implemented, that was in the memo even before the takeover. But the point was that most fans believed that would be applied on signing top quality proven players, and not just teenage potential bets. No one complains about expensive successes; likes of Didier, Hazard etc. weren't exactly cheap for their time.
Yan what is clear is the relationship between the owners has deteriorated, it’s not a question of us being sold, rather of one buying the other out. I can imagine Clearlake were disappointed with Bohely procurement strategy with most of those players leaving, along with the management fiascos. At the same time the CEO change suggests commercially Clearlake failed to deliver (sponsorship?). It was always destined for trouble, multiple owners who are actively involved will lead to clashes over strategy and when billions are involved it amplifies that ambiguity. Not sure which ownership I’d prefer, or who’s responsible for the recent strategy but I suspect Clearlake are the one who want Bohely out.
I would be looking at Wyss here over Boehly. Wyss has close ties to Micheal Bloomberg. He probably wants out of his investment and was hunting for way out.
Think Todd is looking for way out. He likes wheeling and dealing, and the more structure that's been put in place, the less he can be involved. As the project grows, he'll be a smaller cog.
At this point, I 100% much prefer Chelsea be owned by Clearlake and Egbhali. Clearlake Capital are like world renowned here in the States among people in finance and big law. They’re good, and the good moves Chelsea have made in recent times (Palmer, Noni, Jackson, Lavia, etc.) are not moves that would have been made under Roman. We have to be honest Roman’s model is unsustainable. If Bohley thinks the Premier League is like the NBA where you win by just trading for the big players and the only thing restricting you is the size if your market, he’s just wrong. I like the path Chelsea is going currently. See how well City is gonna shake out with its 115 charges. It’ll be teams like Chelsea winning the league someday.
I think Todd will look to get a more controlling share in the club but I don't know for sure what's happening, the owners haven't done bad in the rebuild but it's not the best Real Madrid now have the best young team in the world
Chelsea’s majority shareholder Clearlake Capital have no intention of selling their stake in the club and will not allow it to go up for auction again. Clearlake owns 61%. Clearlake will not sell any shares but would be willing to increase its shares.
With you on the goals thing. I hate conceding. The Chelsea I've loved a long time was so tough, especially at the bridge. It's so hard to see goal after goal against.
Maybe the new owners see this all coming and had to act quickly and ruthlessly to bend rules to get the club into a position where we are now potentially protected for what is coming .
given the drastic change in transfer policy after Todd kinda stepped backwards in club involvement it should've been pretty obvious that those two guys/sides have differing opinions on how to run Chelsea I'm not surprised in the slightest that this has happened
We honestly need to find a better balance. The PTSD over the first window is too much. Need to overcome the fear sometimes. We aren't Brighton, as much as Eghbali might like them in business sense.
Honestly I don't think the transfer strategy changed too much. We just found sporting directors that are better equipped for the job because they know more about the sport. Now those guys don't just get to do whatever. They'll still be given a certain direction the club wants to move in. I think Boehly or whoever told them what they want and they just deliver as best as they can. Yes we bought big guns like Sterling, Koulibaly and Aubameyang but we also brought in many more young talented for both peanuts as well as serious money. The same repeated in the 2 windows after. Couple older players and then a bunch of talents for the future in various price ranges. Same thing again this summer. And if anything I think Boehly is completely on board with signing kids and forming them to a winning team rather than getting established players. I don't follow Baseball but what I hear is that the Dodger follow a similar strategy and are very successful with it. I also don't think that the transfer strategy is what splits opinions in the board. Pretty sure they talked about who to get in and who to sell. Also pretty sure that there are a lot of other factors to consider. Maybe the signings are fine for both but one isn't happy with who exactly we sold to make space. Maybe one of them had the job of securing a sponsor by now and the other is annoyed that this hasn't happened. Maybe they are taking turns in which manager to pick and both aren't happy with the other's decision(s). I feel like we have enough information about the transfers, given how they gather so much attention, that we can pretty safely assume that that isn't the biggest problem at hand.
Yan you can use Ashley as a example. If they didn't spend money on 16-18 year olds. Then that would not be any issue with FFP. TBH I don't trust clear lake. They'll taking assets away from Chelsea football club and signing it to a company called blueco. What makes Chelsea a good Buy. is the land the stadium is on.
As much as this seems like huge news, I don’t think this is a similar to Roman handing it over to the new lot. My understanding is that the current owners are willing to dilute their own share for additional investment and leadership. More like Ineos?
I wonder.........is this another way to boost our financial situation where shares move within the club and generate a profit? Keeping in mind that we are worth billions how much would 10 or even 5% sale free up to be recorded as profit on our books? Is this another little plan made by our creative ownership and we are to blind to see it because as you mentioned before, we will not be able to do that if we talk outside investment and explore how to move shares internal to make money money money....
Let me guess. They absolutely messed up and are going to slapped by FIFA for selling assets to their own business, they’ve spent way to much money and are going to get hit with FFP and are trying to get out of dodge and sell the club when the asset still has value.
Did you notice Boeley storming off in a high profile huff when we went 0-2 against Man City? I thought something was up. Eghbali is very aggressive. Definitely a case of two alpha males in the same cave. Eghbali will come out the winner because Clearlake have more shares. Whether that is good for Chelsea remains to be seen. Abramovitch loved football and got it. Eghbali thinks the whole thing is a cunning game of financial chess. Not convinced that chess and football are the same thing. We will get there in the end, it just may take a couple more years, especially if the shareholders of Clearlake start to question their return on capital on this project. My prognosis: Boeley storms out of this, we end up changing managers this season or next, Chelsea come 7th this season and don't win the Conference, Clearlake shareholders tell Eghbali to stop using/abusing their money on a personal vanity project that he doesn't really understand, club brings in a pro as CEO, we get there in the end. My only upset is that we didn't move the ground to Earls Court (which is actually in the borough of Chelsea, not Fulham). Is there an Arsenal fan that still laments not still being at Highbury? This is all down to the fat cab drivers in the Mathew Harding stand who claim to represent the Chelsea fan base, when actually they don't.
Chelsea is not a football club ,its a corporation. There is no passion or heart. Chelsea treat players not very nice any more . Enzo Maresca gone before season end then half the players will be forced to train on own or worse sent to Turkey. Would you trust these owners ? Or believe anything the Sporting Directors say .?
This may not be good news for us. I think while the owners have done a lot wrong they have also done a lot right. I don't know who's responsible for the good things we done but with Boehly having experience owning a sports franchise I can only assume the good things have come from him. If so the bad news is that you wouldn't have thought it's likely Boehly could buy out Clearlake which means we could lose the only boardroom influence that could be behind the good things like having a wage bracket linked to the clubs current finances meaning if we're in the CL we pay more, Buying player's, hiring a coach, hiring SD'd that all share the same philosophy on playing style. Buying players who are almost certainly going to increase in value. Without Boehly we might not be offering players like Palmer such long extensions after they deserved it through performances and I wouldn't be surprised if Clearlake would offer shorter term deals with selling clauses at a figure that would be tempting to the Real's, Bayern's, PSG's and City's of this world.
My philosophy on your football club owners is “better the devil you know…” I would say that could be applied to me and Chelsea and Bates and Roman… Electric fences, for goodness sake!!
Can never have a peaceful day at this club 😂 guess it just makes it Chelsea. Two sides to this. Have an ownership group which spends a lot on young talent and data but expects returns to appeal to shareholders of Clearlake or have an owner willing to spend on some experience and youth talent but has lack of capital and will need further investors to execute plans. Just a total mess both sides need to see eye to eye.
Understand Clearlake Capital do not wish sell any of their Chelsea shares. They would only consider increasing their stake should another minority investor, such as Todd Boehly, wish to sell.
I'd rather we used our resources intelligently and tried to actually compete instead of wasting those resources, failing to compete, and potentially getting overtaken by Newcastle before they've even made their transition into a big spending team. If all we're doing with our money is flushing them down the toilet on players that don't actually do anything for us then we're not really any better off than Newcastle were when they couldn't spend any money at all. The difference in utility value between having no money and having money that you use to buy something useless is zero. We're not the team with the most resources to work with and so competing means using what resources we have more effectively than those competitors with more resources. If we fail to do that then we're not very likely to be in a position to compete.
Chelsea for the last year clearly has been under the vision and leadership of ehgbali and not boehly..boehly took a step back beginning of last season and ehgbali has been trying to rectify boehly's mistakes however shrewd it may seem,none of these reports surprise me,but if one has to go it looks like boehly..
From the articles I have read. Our ownership is basically split into two factions Clearlake and Blue Co can’t remember the split maybe 60/40 in Clearlake’s favour. Essentially Clearlake want full control. Todd the rep for Blue Co and Egbhali (probably spelling that wrong) the rep for Clearlake are beefing hence why one is trying to buy out the other. So either blue Co or Clearlake will control the club unless they learn to kiss and make up.Never a dull day for Chelsea 😅
It's not that dramatic, whomever takes control can implement their vision and take the club forward in the name of Yan's favourite band, 'One Direction'!
The thing I don’t understand with this, is if they were planning to do something with the stadium why have they spent over £1 billion on players? And £1 billion that hasn’t strengthened the squad. £1 billion that has unbalanced the squad. And now they’re fighting, allegedly, about buying each other out. Here it is in the Intl break and the chaos at Chelsea never stops.
But have made many many sales as well as buying. It just looks like the two just can't see eye to eye on long term strategy so they want to part ways rather than let this affect the whole club. The stadium rebuild looks like the best way is to relocate but the CPO won't have any of it
Stadium costs don't count towards FFP if I'm not wrong, as long as it is somehow funded by an entity (which Roman was personally capable of without being accountable to anyone else). In our current business model we'd have to fund it through an external investment (basically they'd seek a return). So we've implemented the player sale model with them being treated like commodities to raise funds for it. At the cost of even some on pitch suffering. It's how I see it.
@@ChampStan selling players they bought, loaned players where we are paying the higher percentage or all the wages. I cannot see how their transfer strategy had helped us. We are a worse, more inbalanced yeam since they came in the one, shining, unquestionable success has been Cole Palmer. Kulibaly? Disaster! Felix first time, overpaid and underwhelming. Mudryk? Still waiting. Enzo Fernandez? Still waiting. And thry got rid of much better players than they brought in, created Bomb Squads. What is there to applaud? Lh tbey git the wage bill doen. But we have 30 odd players instead of 25/28. 6/7 goalies ffs. And we are just two injuries away from a crisis. Again!!’
You will only defend your team when they are winning???? Nice support of the one you supposedly love??? Fair weather fan comes to mind. Very disappointing to hear
UPDATE: Matt Law [Telegraph] reports that an ownership sale won't happen but Clearlake might look to increase their equity share.
Todd is the sports guy, he wants to sort the stadium, he wants to win trophies, Clearlake are asset management, they manage assets, they have applied this to footballers, hence the transfer business, buy, manage, sell. Todd made clear at the beginning that he believes the best way to profit as a sports team is to win trophies. He's taken the public backlash for all of the collective owners decisions, he's the nearest thing we will ever get to another Roman.
Spot on
Finally someone makes a correct statement instead of playing into people’s bs about boehly
Unless you’re Todd, Clearlake or a rep of both, you my friend, like the rest of us are all just speculating at this point
Just needs to get sorted out soon as having conflict ain't a good look and I always thought there were too many cooks in the kitchen anyways
Exactly
I am familiar with Boehly’s actions when he got involved with the LA Dodgers. Boehly does not bull shit around. He has his belief system in how to build a championship team and he is ruthless in that pursuit. He sold veteran proven MLB players, loaded up with young talent and built a team that won championships and competed for league titles and championships year in and year out. I will admit I don’t know much about the Clearlake guys but Boehly renovated the Dodgers stadium and made it more fan friendly. It took a few seasons but even now no team in the MLB looks forward to a series against the Dodgers. He is a competitive dude that only accepts winning. He also has not runaway from taking all the heat that has been directed at the club over the last two seasons. Getting the stadium up for fans has to be a priority for Boehly. Knowing what I know as a Chelsea fan I can only hope he is the last man standing. Sorry for the short story guys. Todd Boehly is a bad MF’er and has connections in the Saudi world of business. Don’t sell him short. If he is bought out he will invest in another team because he sees potential and loves competition.
I don't follow baseball, but I've seen rave reviews about the Dodgers almost everywhere. That's also what got me invested into the current consortium over others. To move away from that for me is like having a whole different custodian.
Can Ohtani achieve 50-50?
Meatloaf
Can’t even catch a break during the international break there’s always something 😂
Club can never have a day of peace I swear
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"Behdad and Boehly are exploring options to buy each other out"
TRANSLATION:
They are both looking for legal and financial ways to get rid of the other and take full control of the club's direction.
That will be better
Boehly would have to get different partners to be able to buy out Clearlake. Boehly is driven by making sports teams successful both on and off the field. Clearlake are looking for profit, how they want to go about that has always been a question.
The problem Boehly had was the club was sold as the transfer window opened, we had Rudi and Chris leaving on frees. Alonso, Werner and Azpi wanted to leave and Lukaku didn't want to play for us. Cech decided to leave despite him being asked to stay. I suspect Marina and the rest of the board had to go due to the irregularities found in the books. TT didn't want to get involved in transfers.
So we had no time to get a sporting director in with players we quickly needed to replace not to mention the players that weren't good enough and injuries - which we continued to have that season and last season. Boehly made errors no doubt, but the situation played a large part of that imo.
From a fan's perspective I would certainly choose the Boehly approach of seriously trying to win, rather than the current. I think a certain balance can be hit even with current consortium if they come to their senses. It's like they suffer so much PTSD from the first window that they refuse to budge even a bit in the other direction again. We need to overcome that and find a balance.
I want us to be a football club, not a financial corporation.
In terms of an ownership "divorce", I cannot see Todd having the financial muscle to buyout Clearlake. And it's Behdad we've seen at games with the SDs. I wonder what will happen...
He doesn’t need to have the money himself. He needs to be able to raise it. And for someone like Boehly that’s a couple of phone calls.
Get rid of Egbahly. The dude has stunk out the place since he got here. Dude even looks like a slimeball
@RS-vy9qv Sorry, do you understand that Eghbali has 62% of shares and he is the boss. Majority shareholders not allow to sell for 10 years. Boehly already made mistake by making phone call to Eghbali and asking to invest money. You are asking him to make another phone call? When he has no money, better he enjoy minority investment in Dodgers
Is this just a well timed (international break) placed article from the clearlake side to address the UK media constantly referencing Todd as the main man which we know he isn't
@@nicolemonkeviciene791don’t apologise
Been here since the end of Sarri-ball, keep up the great work Yan! As long as I’m a Chelsea supporter (which is until I die) and Football Therapy is on TH-cam I’m here!
I reckon Yan will buy shares in Chelsea after he finishes setting up his studio tomorrow! 💯
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Boehly I think is not on board with the recruiting. Look at what the Dodgers did with the Ohtani signing. I think that’s more the kind of deals he likes to pursue.
Exactly this. They don’t see eye to eye and that is okay. If you recall, Todd wanted a big name signing such as Neymar. He signed Koulibaly, Auba for ridiculous money.
I do believe Clearlake are on the right track but there’s a big big difference in the construction of the team.
I'm team Boehly in terms of the approach. Give me Real Madrid over Brighton any day.
@@hnaku8748 yeah I agree. I’ll take the sports guy over the private equity guy personally. To Boehly I get the feeling it’s a sports project first, and an investment 2nd. I think Clearlake is on it for the investment and return primarily. And I do think Eghbali cares and is interested in the sporting side of things and making Chelsea good again, but he approaches it through the lens of the corporate board/asset management aspect of it all before anything else. They both care, they just have different priorities. They need like a mediating voice between them. Like hey Todd stop trying to buy everyone like this is FIFA career mode with the cash injection turned on, and also hey Behdad stop being a penny pincher and pay Osimhen his damn wages.
And we thought it was getting better 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Roman ABRAMOVICH
Roman did nothing wrong
@@cfcblue8 except being associated with the wrong despot … lol but ok
@@patentg8r "associated" think about how stupid that is in the context of what happened.
@@WOLFanddBEAR or how stupid the UK govt was … don’t rag on the messenger here …
@@patentg8r Sorry if I misread the tone of your post mate.
I still can’t believe how utterly clueless those people who protested the Ricketts family buying Chelsea. They would’ve been so much better as owners. As a Chicago resident who has seen them in action, they were the perfect fit based on the similarities of the Chicago Cubs and Chelsea FC. We missed out big time!
What have the cubs won recently?
i wouldve liked there to be more of a strategy involved in the singing of players, 250 mil on caicedo and enzo and they dont complement each other well, thats just poor. that first season under this ownership could not have gone worse, not one signing made us a better team, we went from ucl winners and top four easy to less then mid table. yes the lukaku situation and not renewing contracts like rudiger, christensen and kante, not signing declan rice like we shouldve years ago for half the price of enzo or caicedo was poor.
Why is Chelsea the only club making headlines?? Can't we just be drama free for once??!!!🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
would that even be Chelsea without drama?
@@roadking747 it’s Chelsea … what a club!
@patentg8r more history then your whole life so can't say much 😂
It’s not in our nature
@@khailygooz lol says the one who can't get a life or job
Surely this is just another negative media spin on what’s likely just normal business.
Somewhere in between. There's hints of truth in it given what we've seen happen at the club before and after takeover. But yeah also certainly keeps fans busy during international break.
PS, I have only read the caption... So this comment is my hot take.
I think Todd is not the problem, but Clearlake is... Todd's first instinct as bad as it was, was to buy experience players whom the streets said were good and could help...
Then boom, they got sporting directors and all that nonsense and the ship went a different direction, and I think they chose to listen to the members with the most votes in the board, and that's Clearlake, and they went with their vision...
And that's how Todd lost his own direction of buying experienced players and we started going the data analytics route with the SDs...
But there has been some positives from it. We managed to get Palmer, Paez/Estevao who look to be promising talents. The best is to get a good mixof young and lld which I don't get why it can't happen. If both owners can't see eye to eye how can the fans trust the long term process they are trying to do. Just pathetic from all owners in my opinion
@@ChampStan fair point, 👍🏽
@@ChampStan Data analytics approach was always going to be implemented, that was in the memo even before the takeover. But the point was that most fans believed that would be applied on signing top quality proven players, and not just teenage potential bets.
No one complains about expensive successes; likes of Didier, Hazard etc. weren't exactly cheap for their time.
I can’t see them selling Chelsea at this point one of them could be bought out for sure
Weren't also they contracted to not be able to sell for 10 years or so?
Yan what is clear is the relationship between the owners has deteriorated, it’s not a question of us being sold, rather of one buying the other out. I can imagine Clearlake were disappointed with Bohely procurement strategy with most of those players leaving, along with the management fiascos. At the same time the CEO change suggests commercially Clearlake failed to deliver (sponsorship?).
It was always destined for trouble, multiple owners who are actively involved will lead to clashes over strategy and when billions are involved it amplifies that ambiguity. Not sure which ownership I’d prefer, or who’s responsible for the recent strategy but I suspect Clearlake are the one who want Bohely out.
I truly believe the chances of us getting worse owners than Clearlake is way more likely than finding better ones.
how quickly people forget how bad the runners up were for the ownership.
I would be looking at Wyss here over Boehly. Wyss has close ties to Micheal Bloomberg. He probably wants out of his investment and was hunting for way out.
Think Todd is looking for way out. He likes wheeling and dealing, and the more structure that's been put in place, the less he can be involved. As the project grows, he'll be a smaller cog.
If it was WSJ I would take it more serious than Bloomberg..in the states
Time to release the OnlyYans 😩
See what ya did there 😂
At this point, I 100% much prefer Chelsea be owned by Clearlake and Egbhali. Clearlake Capital are like world renowned here in the States among people in finance and big law. They’re good, and the good moves Chelsea have made in recent times (Palmer, Noni, Jackson, Lavia, etc.) are not moves that would have been made under Roman.
We have to be honest Roman’s model is unsustainable. If Bohley thinks the Premier League is like the NBA where you win by just trading for the big players and the only thing restricting you is the size if your market, he’s just wrong.
I like the path Chelsea is going currently. See how well City is gonna shake out with its 115 charges. It’ll be teams like Chelsea winning the league someday.
I think Todd will look to get a more controlling share in the club but I don't know for sure what's happening, the owners haven't done bad in the rebuild but it's not the best Real Madrid now have the best young team in the world
Chelsea’s majority shareholder Clearlake Capital have no intention of selling their stake in the club and will not allow it to go up for auction again. Clearlake owns 61%. Clearlake will not sell any shares but would be willing to increase its shares.
Boehly won’t sell to them
@@drunkinclam100 He will have to if he genuinely can't move forward with Clearlake
@@ChampStan it’s a mess never wanted yanks anywhere near the club this will drag out in the courts
Uncertainty, division, face-off .
Not coducive to success on the pitch
There is no way the new stadium will get built in these circumstances
@@alternativeperspective5635 Clearlake just want profit not interested in trophy’s
Looking foward to seeing the new set up! Inspiring me on the same task with my office, major declutter needed 😂
Why can't we stay out of the news😢
Chelsea gets clicks unfortunately 😅
Hard not to read this as Todd disapproves of Clearlake and wants out.
Don't worry guys "everything gonna be alright"! We need to stay positive & trust the process! 😂
I want to thank you Yan for giving and objective But Always positive News reaction to ous 💙🙏🏻
I would prefer if Todd owned the club by himself
Todd got all the hate unnecessarily, it will get even worse without him.
Behdad was sat next to sancho smiling ...sancho is just what we dont need we needed toney osihmen...behdad is clueless
Hopefully Behdad is out the door
All I know as a fan is our consideration is always bottom of the list.
With you on the goals thing. I hate conceding. The Chelsea I've loved a long time was so tough, especially at the bridge. It's so hard to see goal after goal against.
Wonder if there was a dispute over Osimhen?
Probably didn’t realise the magnitude of running a football club.
Dumbest comment in this section. Do you have ANY understand of their backgrounds or do you just like to talk out of your backside?
You do realise that Chelsea FC are small potatoes compared with other sporting franchises owned by Clearlake don't you?
Of course they did.
Maybe the new owners see this all coming and had to act quickly and ruthlessly to bend rules to get the club into a position where we are now potentially protected for what is coming .
given the drastic change in transfer policy after Todd kinda stepped backwards in club involvement
it should've been pretty obvious that those two guys/sides have differing opinions on how to run Chelsea
I'm not surprised in the slightest that this has happened
We honestly need to find a better balance. The PTSD over the first window is too much. Need to overcome the fear sometimes. We aren't Brighton, as much as Eghbali might like them in business sense.
Honestly I don't think the transfer strategy changed too much. We just found sporting directors that are better equipped for the job because they know more about the sport.
Now those guys don't just get to do whatever. They'll still be given a certain direction the club wants to move in. I think Boehly or whoever told them what they want and they just deliver as best as they can.
Yes we bought big guns like Sterling, Koulibaly and Aubameyang but we also brought in many more young talented for both peanuts as well as serious money.
The same repeated in the 2 windows after. Couple older players and then a bunch of talents for the future in various price ranges.
Same thing again this summer.
And if anything I think Boehly is completely on board with signing kids and forming them to a winning team rather than getting established players. I don't follow Baseball but what I hear is that the Dodger follow a similar strategy and are very successful with it.
I also don't think that the transfer strategy is what splits opinions in the board. Pretty sure they talked about who to get in and who to sell. Also pretty sure that there are a lot of other factors to consider. Maybe the signings are fine for both but one isn't happy with who exactly we sold to make space. Maybe one of them had the job of securing a sponsor by now and the other is annoyed that this hasn't happened. Maybe they are taking turns in which manager to pick and both aren't happy with the other's decision(s).
I feel like we have enough information about the transfers, given how they gather so much attention, that we can pretty safely assume that that isn't the biggest problem at hand.
Yan you can use Ashley as a example. If they didn't spend money on 16-18 year olds. Then that would not be any issue with FFP. TBH I don't trust clear lake. They'll taking assets away from Chelsea football club and signing it to a company called blueco. What makes Chelsea a good Buy. is the land the stadium is on.
Boehly would of kept Poch and Chelsea would be top of the table. Poch would of signed osihmen, big mike, and Neto, and toshin
I sure the 10 years thing had to do with the fact they could not take any profit for 10 years.
What? There’s no way!
They seem to be the perfect people to find a loophole and a way round the shareholder issues. UTC💙
I hope Clearlake leaves honestly
Many of us fans trusted these jokers to avoid this type of dysfunction. They better get it together soon.
But as I told you when they spent that Billy the could legally sell then.
Seems like its going down the arsenal way under kronkes usmanov disagreements between owners which lead club underperforming for years
As much as this seems like huge news, I don’t think this is a similar to Roman handing it over to the new lot. My understanding is that the current owners are willing to dilute their own share for additional investment and leadership. More like Ineos?
if they can buy eachother out then they can sell the club. Get this poison out of my club!!
I wonder.........is this another way to boost our financial situation where shares move within the club and generate a profit? Keeping in mind that we are worth billions how much would 10 or even 5% sale free up to be recorded as profit on our books? Is this another little plan made by our creative ownership and we are to blind to see it because as you mentioned before, we will not be able to do that if we talk outside investment and explore how to move shares internal to make money money money....
What about shirt sponsor ship? seems to me no news on it
They’ll never get their money back probably only worth about 1 billion now 😂
$3.1b.
Boehly has had better signings than Eghbali. Eghbali brought in 70mil tiktok mudryk, assburyhall, badiashit, & disasterclass. Let’s back boehly
clueless!! what a bout boehly: sterling, auba and I could go on
The question is who's the best for chelsea Boehly or clear lake?
I’m curious what the loophole is? I thought they were not allowed to sell club in first 10 years according to deal with Roman?
That’s just PR to stop the fans turning on them if things weren’t going well, which they ain’t
well they're not really selling the club but instead buying each other out. I'm sure that's not a breach of contract.
No worries. We gonna buy more teenagers in the winter. Sure that will solve all our problems.
Prefer Todd boehly over Eghbali
And the Circus is back in town
Let me guess. They absolutely messed up and are going to slapped by FIFA for selling assets to their own business, they’ve spent way to much money and are going to get hit with FFP and are trying to get out of dodge and sell the club when the asset still has value.
Did you notice Boeley storming off in a high profile huff when we went 0-2 against Man City? I thought something was up. Eghbali is very aggressive. Definitely a case of two alpha males in the same cave. Eghbali will come out the winner because Clearlake have more shares. Whether that is good for Chelsea remains to be seen. Abramovitch loved football and got it. Eghbali thinks the whole thing is a cunning game of financial chess. Not convinced that chess and football are the same thing. We will get there in the end, it just may take a couple more years, especially if the shareholders of Clearlake start to question their return on capital on this project.
My prognosis: Boeley storms out of this, we end up changing managers this season or next, Chelsea come 7th this season and don't win the Conference, Clearlake shareholders tell Eghbali to stop using/abusing their money on a personal vanity project that he doesn't really understand, club brings in a pro as CEO, we get there in the end.
My only upset is that we didn't move the ground to Earls Court (which is actually in the borough of Chelsea, not Fulham). Is there an Arsenal fan that still laments not still being at Highbury? This is all down to the fat cab drivers in the Mathew Harding stand who claim to represent the Chelsea fan base, when actually they don't.
Yan’s army 200,000 strong by Christmas
Chelsea is not a football club ,its a corporation. There is no passion or heart.
Chelsea treat players not very nice any more . Enzo Maresca gone before season end
then half the players will be forced to train on own or worse sent to Turkey.
Would you trust these owners ? Or believe anything the Sporting Directors say .?
Always gonna happen
Yan in his Johny Sins physique era
Didn't know yan was a fireman
Who is Johnny Sins bro🌝
This may not be good news for us. I think while the owners have done a lot wrong they have also done a lot right. I don't know who's responsible for the good things we done but with Boehly having experience owning a sports franchise I can only assume the good things have come from him. If so the bad news is that you wouldn't have thought it's likely Boehly could buy out Clearlake which means we could lose the only boardroom influence that could be behind the good things like having a wage bracket linked to the clubs current finances meaning if we're in the CL we pay more, Buying player's, hiring a coach, hiring SD'd that all share the same philosophy on playing style. Buying players who are almost certainly going to increase in value. Without Boehly we might not be offering players like Palmer such long extensions after they deserved it through performances and I wouldn't be surprised if Clearlake would offer shorter term deals with selling clauses at a figure that would be tempting to the Real's, Bayern's, PSG's and City's of this world.
The Russophobia curse in full swing
My philosophy on your football club owners is “better the devil you know…” I would say that could be applied to me and Chelsea and Bates and Roman…
Electric fences, for goodness sake!!
This is happening because Roman sold the club to the group of people
Can never have a peaceful day at this club 😂 guess it just makes it Chelsea.
Two sides to this. Have an ownership group which spends a lot on young talent and data but expects returns to appeal to shareholders of Clearlake or have an owner willing to spend on some experience and youth talent but has lack of capital and will need further investors to execute plans.
Just a total mess both sides need to see eye to eye.
Well well well...why am I not surprised?...🙄
Understand Clearlake Capital do not wish sell any of their Chelsea shares. They would only consider increasing their stake should another minority investor, such as Todd Boehly, wish to sell.
Omw, may this please happen
Where's the three and a half billion from the sale of Roman's club?
Ukraine
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Boris has it
Love the vids bro
I'd rather we used our resources intelligently and tried to actually compete instead of wasting those resources, failing to compete, and potentially getting overtaken by Newcastle before they've even made their transition into a big spending team.
If all we're doing with our money is flushing them down the toilet on players that don't actually do anything for us then we're not really any better off than Newcastle were when they couldn't spend any money at all. The difference in utility value between having no money and having money that you use to buy something useless is zero.
We're not the team with the most resources to work with and so competing means using what resources we have more effectively than those competitors with more resources. If we fail to do that then we're not very likely to be in a position to compete.
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Chelsea for the last year clearly has been under the vision and leadership of ehgbali and not boehly..boehly took a step back beginning of last season and ehgbali has been trying to rectify boehly's mistakes however shrewd it may seem,none of these reports surprise me,but if one has to go it looks like boehly..
This Article sounds like bullocks to me tbh.
It’s not
@@drunkinclam100 and how do you know?
@@kylesmith8383it was rumoured before and this basically confirms it. Time will just reveal more
@@kylesmith8383 just look it’s everywhere 🙄
@@drunkinclam100 they're reporting on the article, not confirming the article
We are the only club that has this amount of energy and chaos every single damn day im sure they will find another loophole to buy each other
How could this happen? I’m not even against these lot exiting stage left, but I was sure they were contractually obligated to keep the club?
From the articles I have read. Our ownership is basically split into two factions Clearlake and Blue Co can’t remember the split maybe 60/40 in Clearlake’s favour. Essentially Clearlake want full control. Todd the rep for Blue Co and Egbhali (probably spelling that wrong) the rep for Clearlake are beefing hence why one is trying to buy out the other. So either blue Co or Clearlake will control the club unless they learn to kiss and make up.Never a dull day for Chelsea 😅
who didnt see this coming when you have so many egos and opinions and peoples money involved.
4:35 I wanted the saudis
Did you read this before you posted? Or just read the headline? C'mon Yan.
It's not that dramatic, whomever takes control can implement their vision and take the club forward in the name of Yan's favourite band, 'One Direction'!
The thing I don’t understand with this, is if they were planning to do something with the stadium why have they spent over £1 billion on players? And £1 billion that hasn’t strengthened the squad. £1 billion that has unbalanced the squad. And now they’re fighting, allegedly, about buying each other out. Here it is in the Intl break and the chaos at Chelsea never stops.
But have made many many sales as well as buying. It just looks like the two just can't see eye to eye on long term strategy so they want to part ways rather than let this affect the whole club. The stadium rebuild looks like the best way is to relocate but the CPO won't have any of it
Stadium costs don't count towards FFP if I'm not wrong, as long as it is somehow funded by an entity (which Roman was personally capable of without being accountable to anyone else). In our current business model we'd have to fund it through an external investment (basically they'd seek a return). So we've implemented the player sale model with them being treated like commodities to raise funds for it. At the cost of even some on pitch suffering. It's how I see it.
@@ChampStan selling players they bought, loaned players where we are paying the higher percentage or all the wages. I cannot see how their transfer strategy had helped us. We are a worse, more inbalanced yeam since they came in the one, shining, unquestionable success has been Cole Palmer. Kulibaly? Disaster! Felix first time, overpaid and underwhelming. Mudryk? Still waiting. Enzo Fernandez? Still waiting. And thry got rid of much better players than they brought in, created Bomb Squads. What is there to applaud? Lh tbey git the wage bill doen. But we have 30 odd players instead of 25/28. 6/7 goalies ffs. And we are just two injuries away from a crisis. Again!!’
woah!
If this actually happens it's Christmas come early get he'll out
You will only defend your team when they are winning???? Nice support of the one you supposedly love??? Fair weather fan comes to mind. Very disappointing to hear
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Romans son will buy it back
@@ruperttracy7050 or putin when he invades the UK 😂😂😂
Love my Chesea. This is a possible freeking cicus. Pure blue drama😋😋
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WHATTT????
Oh ffs just come back Roman, spent a billion on kids and expecting success clowns 🤡
For the past two years... These are useless owners av been saying...