What I would like, as a Chelsea fan, is for Eghbali and his directors to stop completely sidestepping accountability.
This is a complete in-fight over at least the short term direction of the club. All this talk about training methods and stuff is fluff, and everyone knows it.
One side wanted to go with continuity, at least in the short term, and make Pochettino happy… which would have meant, at the minimum, keeping Conor Gallagher.
We know this is true if Eldridge was the entity buying Cobham to raise funds that would keep them from having to sell players, because Eldridge is owned solely by Boehly, not a consortium of Clearlake investors.
Boehly was meeting with Pochettino by himself; the dinner may have just been the only one we heard about. He was then NOT at the meeting where Pochettino stepped aside/was canned.
As long as Chelsea fans focus exclusively on Boehly, Eghbali and the rest of the group can go about doing what they like with him as a PR shield.
I think teams, especially in a rebuilding phase, would be lucky to have Pochettino. He’s managed mega personalities well, he has built some very cohesive string teams, and he develops players.
If you’re worried about him getting teams over the final hump …. Then re-evaluate when you have a very good team that just can’t get over the final hurdle of winning a title. Most of our clubs would love to be in that position right now, so it seems like a strange criticism.