He and his wife divorced - they'd been together for a decade-plus as well and apparently it was fairly acrimonious.
Boehly is going to ruin Chelsea (hopefully)
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That's sad to hear. Would have definitely been a strain in his personal life affecting his performance at Chelsea.
You'd think the very least he could have been was more accommodating to new ownership, in the way his peers are. He possibly would have rode out that period of underachievement.
Oh I completely agree. I'm of the opinion that sacking Tuchel was the second stupidest thing Chelsea have ever done - close to but not quite exceeding selling Kevin de Bruyne for €18m when he still had 3.5 years left on his contract because Mourinho decided he was bad after one half of an FA Cup tie.
I also just find the argument that many Chelsea fans have put forward that "it was also bad under Tuchel" to be completely lacking in perspective - Potter averaged 1.27 points per game for Chelsea. Even in his first games this season when it was apparently so bad as to be unsustainable, Tuchel averaged 1.67 points per game - and that goes up to 2.0 points per game if Mike Dean doesn't ignore literally the most blatant red card of the season because he's a daft bald dipshit.
Genuinely can’t believe Lampard is back at the club.
The OP could well be right.
The OP could well be right.
Maybe he could marry his kids (if he has any) into the Glazer family and set up an Empire of Incompetence.
Even his new manager bounces are woeful.
Imagine being gifted Thomas Tuchel as a manager, sacking him and replacing him with Potter AND then Lampard…
Imagine how many yes-men you must have around you to pull stuff like that.
Imagine how many yes-men you must have around you to pull stuff like that.
A rich man thinking they can be good at anything wonder where I have seen this lately
He has no fecking clue what he’s doing.
So, again, do we know how fecked they are without European football next season?
Surely they won’t be able to make significant transfers at that point, given what has already been spent on sure things like Mudryk.
Surely they won’t be able to make significant transfers at that point, given what has already been spent on sure things like Mudryk.
Depends on how much they sell for I would think. They have plenty of players to sell, with their bloated squad.
And they won't be able to sell players that no one wants for miraculously exorbitant fees, now Abramovitch has gone, either.
The problem Tuchel has is he’s great on the training ground, but once a transfer window opens he goes a bit mental. He ended up in a massive fall out with Dortmund over Oliver Torres, Lukaku at Chelsea, and I got the impression he was playing up at Chelsea last summer, despite Boehly being a clueless cnut.
Heard somewhere they’ve paid him nothing like the five years. I can see it being like that. Potter is a drip and would probably give it up without a fuss. They even said he was going to collaborate with them in moving on from him! It’s a shame because he should have took them to the cleaners, that’s what everyone else is doing…
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Love how they brief that they put the players on long contracts (8 years) on lower wages. If those players do well, they will push for a raise to top wages ASAP. If they don’t, your stuck paying them forever.
It’s the kind of briefing you’d get with Woodward saying he renewed all contracts to “keep value” or gave Solksjaer the job after OGS write down his dream United team of 2025!
Except for I think Boehly is more dangerous…
OP is looking like more of genius for every match Chelsea play.
That didn't help Potter very much.
He needs to feel like Boehly Big Bollocks all the time, but all he can really do is sack the manager and buy more players. He's just going to keep mashing those buttons until the money runs out or he is removed.
The guy is a clown as most of us predicted.
Its becoming increasingly obvious he doesn't have a clue how to run a football club. I mean we knew that anyway when he signed loads of bang average players to 8 year deals.
Its becoming increasingly obvious he doesn't have a clue how to run a football club. I mean we knew that anyway when he signed loads of bang average players to 8 year deals.
Build a statue of Boehly outside The Emirates
Well, yeah, because Potter didn't have goodwill in the tank.
Tuchel did though. And he burnt it all up, like he did at Dortmund/PSG. Will probably do so at Bayern too.
While Boehly's certainly the face of the new Chelsea, didn't The Athletic report that Eghbali calls the shots and Boehly's more his right-hand man? If so, Eghbali is doing a smooth job of staying out of the media's glare so far.
Can’t wait for PL Northern All stars vs PL Southern Superstars game he wants to start , in all seriousness where do Americans get off wanting to reinvent the game that has been played for centuries all over the world and they are the last to the party.
Enjoy it, embrace it for what it is, if you don’t like the jeopardy of a highly competitive league and relegation and promotion it’s probably not for you.
I say a this and yet there is that little light of hope that Chelsea May go and do the impossible and win the CL
Enjoy it, embrace it for what it is, if you don’t like the jeopardy of a highly competitive league and relegation and promotion it’s probably not for you.
I say a this and yet there is that little light of hope that Chelsea May go and do the impossible and win the CL
Your right, this guy’s incompetence might make Woodward look like some sort of Nirvana of Transfer Guru’s?
Boehly has ruined Chelsea.
This is a most excellent period in football. When you think of all the money they spent this season its unbelieveable that we are witnessing such levels of incompetency.
Just insane to think how awful last season felt for Utd fans, and yet this current Chelsea season is almost twice as bad as the one we had.
They've been staggeringly bad.
They've been staggeringly bad.
Especially when you consider how much they have spent. Not saying all the signings are shit but they’ve blown through half of the Clearlake money, two managers and look like missing out of CL revenue next season.
I don’t think it could have gone any worse tbh.
£600m spent. Shitloads more on 3 different managers. 11th in the league with less goals than games played 
Aahhh, this brought a smile to my face.£600m spent. Shitloads more on 3 different managers. 11th in the league with less goals than games played
I didn't really think sacking Tuchel was a mistake sering as he was managing and talking like he was asking to be sacked. Maybe he just realised his new boss was an idiot and wanted to get out before his reputation started getting caught up in the sea of incompetence.
It's just, well literally everything else that's been the problem. Potter might have been ok if they didn't immediately sign him about 20 players that he obviously had no say in, and that made about as much sense as buying 30 new tracksuits to address the fact you have no clothes to wear to your job at the anti tracksuit wearing factory.
The 8 year contracts thing is so dumb. What if the players turn out to be rubbish, or want to leave? Or don't want to leave but you've finished 11th so have to offload some? It's like the the anti version of Woodward. Equally dumb but in the opposite way.
Why did they sack Potter of the alternative was Lampard?
Now they have a manager of Chelsea who has already been sacked this season for being bad at managing, and has also already been sacked from Chelsea for being bad at managing Chelsea.
It's just, well literally everything else that's been the problem. Potter might have been ok if they didn't immediately sign him about 20 players that he obviously had no say in, and that made about as much sense as buying 30 new tracksuits to address the fact you have no clothes to wear to your job at the anti tracksuit wearing factory.
The 8 year contracts thing is so dumb. What if the players turn out to be rubbish, or want to leave? Or don't want to leave but you've finished 11th so have to offload some? It's like the the anti version of Woodward. Equally dumb but in the opposite way.
Why did they sack Potter of the alternative was Lampard?
Now they have a manager of Chelsea who has already been sacked this season for being bad at managing, and has also already been sacked from Chelsea for being bad at managing Chelsea.
As a Utd fan I’m absolutely delighted the short, medium and long term future of Chelsea is in the hands of Boehly. I’m convinced there can be no success under this guy. It’s even better than them having a mediocre manager. An owner is hard to get rid of. Long may the ClearFake project continue.
To be honest they're not too far away. The first XI is pretty strong bar 2/3 players. They are a summer transfer window and a good coach appointment from getting it right.
Would imagine they can take the hit for one season, but it puts a lot of pressure on getting it right next year.
It's not smart or dumb it's just very risky. Its seen as dumb at the moment when the players are underperforming but if Chelsea were flying everyone would be saying that it was a genius move.
Pros: you tie potential players to long contracts so you hold control over the transfers, they can't pressure you with leaving for free in the short term.
You frozen the wages, no need for improved contracts to keep players at year 3-4.
Financially you distribute the cost in 8 years so it's amortized and allows you to play with FFP.
Cons: if the player is shit you're stuck with him for longer.
Even though you have the players on long contracts if they feel they deserve a pay raise they'll ask for it and it may create an unpleasant situation for both parts.
You may have to offer bigger wages than normally due to the length of the contract.
At the end of the line I think players have more to lose than clubs by signing these type of long contracts. The club can sell them at any point but players are stuck if they want to move they lose negotiation power.
Anyway I think it's been prohibited by fifa already so we won't see any more clubs doing it.
It’s hard at the moment to predict if he made long lasting damage, but Blackburn jumps to my mind. Blackburn is currently fighting for playoff. It’s a very long time since they sacked big Sam.
Which makes it dumb precisely due to the increased risk.
Only if it doesn't work out if it works out it's a genius move.
He's clueless. You don't spend 600m without a clear football structure in place and a long term vision. It's also very poor leadership in general to walk into a new role and try to make a lot of changes so soon. He didn't give himself any time to learn and understand how things work so he could make informed decisions, and hire the right people to help.
If he isn't a complete idiot he could still get it right next season, but some of his decisions could still have long term consequences, specially the long contracts, which is in fact dumb and won't work simply because we know that not all signings work, and they'll definitely end up with few players flopping.
Goes to show that spending money isn't everything, and I hope to God that this could be a cautionary tale to whomever our new owners will be.
If he isn't a complete idiot he could still get it right next season, but some of his decisions could still have long term consequences, specially the long contracts, which is in fact dumb and won't work simply because we know that not all signings work, and they'll definitely end up with few players flopping.
Goes to show that spending money isn't everything, and I hope to God that this could be a cautionary tale to whomever our new owners will be.
I knew Boehly was a fraud. I never understood why they tried to pass him off as the reason for the Dodgers success.
That will never work.