Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher has said that Chelsea cannot pretend that the Todd Boehly era has been a success. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, Chelsea were the third best team in the world under Tuchel when Todd and Egbali took over as owners of the club, and their emergence has been directly responsible for the decline the Blues have suffered in recent years.
Carragher added that after spending £2 billion since the takeover was complete, Chelsea are no closer to completing for the biggest trophies like they were doing under the German manager.
His words, “There’s no right or wrong way going about running a football club and trying to be successful; it doesn’t matter about the system. The point I’m trying to make is we can’t pretend that this has been a success so far after three-and-a-half years.
They came into a club and the manager was Thomas Tuchel, he’d won the Champions League at that club, at that stage under Thomas Tuchel, Manchester City and Liverpool were possibly the best two teams in world football, alongside Real Madrid, so it was very difficult for anybody to win the Premier League, but Chelsea were the third best team. It wasn’t Manchester United, it wasn’t Arsenal, it was Chelsea.
They then change that manager, they then take a team who were very close to competing and winning trophies like they did the Champions League, and they go and spend £2 billion.
They are no closer, they are further away than what that manager was doing three-and-a-half years ago in terms of competing with the top teams in the Premier League, they are further away having spent two billion pounds.”
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Chelsea Football Club is an English professional football club based in Fulham, West London. Founded in 1905, they play their home games at Stamford Bridge.
The club competes in the Premier League, the top division of English football. They won their first major honour, the League championship, in 1955. The club won the FA Cup for the first time in 1970, their first European honour, the Cup Winners’ Cup, in 1971, and became the third English club to win the Club World Cup in 2022.
On 7 May 2022, Chelsea confirmed that terms have been agreed for a new ownership group, led by Todd Boehly, Clearlake Capital, Mark Walter and Hansjörg Wyss, to acquire the club. The group was later known as BlueCo.
The UK government approved the £4.25bn takeover, ending Abramovich’s 19-year ownership of the club. Bruce Buck, who served as chairman since 2003, was replaced by Boehly, while long-serving club director and de facto sporting director Marina Granovskaia left, as did Petr Čech from the role of technical and performance advisor.
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