Selling Chelsea again? Todd Boehly “could sell all his stake” in Chelsea on one condition
One of the best football podcasts available is the Gab and Juls program because its hosts, Julien Laurens and Gabriele Marcotti, aren’t hesitant to go into the finer points of events.
This isn’t simply your typical football program compiling the most memorable moments from the previous weekend. They enjoy delving into specifics and analyzing more than simply mistakes and accomplishments.
In light of Mauricio Pochettino’s dismissal on Tuesday night, they went into great detail about Chelsea’s ownership issue in today’s edition. Marcotti made some really intriguing conjectures regarding what these developments might be indicating about Chelsea’s ownership going forward.
The current setup is Todd Boehly as part owner, with the majority of the club owners by the “Clearlake” group, headed up by Behdad Eghbali. It’s actually more complicated than that, but it’s the easiest way to explain it.
A consortium that could fall apart
Marcotti claimed that Boehly and the Clearlake duo of Eghbali and Feliciano “don’t see eye to eye.”
“We’ve seen Boehly stepping back… they seem to be at odds… I think Boehly might fade into the background, maybe sell part of his stake or all of his stake. He’s not going to be visible,” the pundit continued.
It’s an interesting take on things. Of course we hear so little from them it’s hard to get a read on what’s going on behind the scenes, but the reporting that Eghbali was anti-Pochettino while Boehly came out and publicly praised the coach recently certainly backs up Marcotti’s speculating that the two parties are pulling in different directions.
Whether or not that leads Boehly to sell part of his stake or just take more of a passive role overall remains to be seen, but as Marcotti points out, the overwhelming financial might is with Clearlake.