Chelsea have gone from Champions League to mid-table in just 2 years. Many blame the new owners, and specifically Todd Boehly, but there's a bigger culprit behind the scenes who has directly caused Chelsea's downfall.
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Chelsea FC, Todd Boehly, Cole Palmer, Behdad Eghbali, Clearlake Capital Premier League, Football Transfers
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Timestamps:
0:00 - 0:34 Intro
0:35 - 2:45 The Owners
2:45 - 3:28 Behdad Eghbali
3:29 - 4:24 American Sports
4:25 - 6:04 Football Models
6:05 - 9:34 The Problem at Chelsea
As the legend once said - THERE'S NO PASSION, THERE'S NO VISION, THERE'S NO AGGRESSION, THERE'S NO F MINDSET IN THIS FOOTBALL CLUB! R.I.P Angry Rantman💙
100%... RIP to the legend 💙
TODD BOHELY GET OUT!!!! GET OUT TODD BOHELY!!! 😂 rip indeed.
He saw the future
RIP man he knew
@@user-if6bx1gq5wit's not his fault
5-0 against Arsenal is unaccetable... the owners have ruined our club
Not really. Arsenal own chelsea so it was expected
😂Arsenal who?? @@Cal-Capone
@@yugenjasvin9626 Arsenal own that small tin pot club chelsea. London has been and will always be red
@@Cal-Caponelol arsenal are a good football team but your not a great team to you win something lol 😂😂😂
@@stephenrice1592 13 league titles and potentially number 14 this season while Chelsea only have 5 titles in their history 💀💀💀
Thank you for making this video, it needs more views. Boehly is not the real figure to blame, he’s just become the scapegoat. Like you said, he only owns 13% of the club. He has stake in the LA Lakers and Dodgers, both of which are arguably the some of the greatest, most winning franchises in their respective sports. The players like Boehly, we’ve seen them hanging out with him and in the 2022 preseason they went to LA and had a great time. There was a lot of optimism about the future. Todd was meant to be a positive public figure and face of the ownership. This has completely backfired, especially since the club is now in shambles. Once Eghbali and Feliciano got settled in, that’s when it all went downhill. The sacking of Tuchel is what really kicked it off, especially in the public eye.
These Americans have destroyed my team with their ego. They thought the US was like Europe. Rather than wait and learn, they sacked everyone that was affiliated with Chelsea, brought in their washedup knowledge and destroyed the team. So much ego for people that do not know anything
contrast with Kroenke who has basically let Arsenal do their thing (barring the super league obviously)
Greedy Americans. It was always going to be bad.
I'm a Chelsea who has worked in M&A for a US investment bank. The owners are arrogant and clueless. To claim Abramovich didn't know how to run a football club was idiotic. The new owners have destroyed the value of the club. Chelsea is no longer worth the £4.25 billion they paid for it. Clearlake's investors must be considering a lawsuit due to the incompetence of the fund's managers. Abramovich invested about £1.0 and increased the club's value over 20 years. Success on the pitch drives value. It is why Chelsea was worth more than Brighton. Commercial success is linked to winning trophies. Recruitment has been awful. They have overpaid for most players. It is a shambles.
Well Chelsea owed Roman 1.5 billion and because of Roman there will be a heavy points deduction or possible relegation due to illegal transactions. As a 20+ year Chelsea fan in my opinion the wheels were already falling off at Chelsea and the UCL win just papered over the cracks.
@@Hazman235Do your research Roman wiped off that £1.5 billion so you are wrong papered over the cracks because of squad strength but not value of club or it would not have been sold
Haha you can’t be serious Clownlake took us from 3rd to 12th in the space of a few months and followed that up by spending a billion on players to sit… ninth. We had many issues with shooting under Roman yes but never went more than a season without silverware at the very most. The entire winning mentality at Chelsea has been gutted by clownlake.
@@Hazman235The debt was due to the investment in a club which was in factual bankruptcy( 285 million in debt which Roman paid in bulk) going down the Leed's path to the oblivion . After 1, 3 billion invested over 2 decades the same club won multiple grand trophies and became a club which was only behind RM, Barca and on level with Bayern as market value. You are NOT a fan of the club for 20+ years and uttering this nonsense. The nincompoops from the USA did pay 5 billion dollars don't they? What is the value of the club now prey tell just 2 years after?
@@HgHg-yp6ft The sale price in pounds 2.5 billion with signed agreement to spend 1.5 billion.
Man united fans tried to warn everyone about American owners, they got laughed at It's all about stocks with them, so annoying
i really dont understand this stupid obscession with brighton, potentially the smallest team on england that happened to be on a good phase, but still small, a club big like chelsea cant turn on this mediocrity its just pathetic
brighton is one of the most profitable prem team as of 3 last summer transfer, thats the way they see the project..all about money. bring brighton players, bring brighton manager, even brighton staff, sign unknown players and hope for profit in future. but the management aint tony bloom, they clearly doesnt understand football bussiness.
Brighton are a really well run club and there are lessons to be learnt from them. The problem with this new ownership is they have tried to rip up everything and make the club in their image in 2 years, when we were already successful on the pitch. Chelsea were literally club world cup champions when they took over. All they had to do was keep marina and cech, keep the UCL winning core players and slowly transition into a new era with smart signings and sales. Instead they sacked Tuchel after a few losses, signed a bunch of players we didn't need and sold almost everyone that made Chelsea a good team. Hearing that they wanna sell Reece James and Gallagher just shows that they are only in this for money. Clearly don't understand that in European football, you can't change so much in such a small amount of time. So unsustainable. I'm really worried for the future of our club.
@@Mangkokjagolegend They should have bought a Portuguese team like Boastavisa then lol.
Let me hear your thinking about how Brighton is one of the smallest clubs "on" England? First of all, there are 92 clubs in the English football pyramid. By no metrics are Brighton one of the smallest. As for Chelsea, they are simply reverting to their actual level(ironically not much above Brighton). The time with Roman was the outlier, not the vast majority of the clubs history. Roman would have won the same things if he bought Fulham or Charlton, Chelsea would not have won the same things if Roman bought Fulham. Now that Chelsea are washed, a spent force, heading back to obscurity...Who will you choose to support next?
I’ve always said from the beginning of the takeover by clear lake that we are like 76ers of the premiership. “Trust the process” nonsense and still the 76ers haven’t won a single thing.
embid is now 30 plus years and still trusting the process
We are FINISHED 😭🙏
Said this since day 1. These owners will destroy the club from the inside.
Mourinho on Chelsea: "When you start accepting defeats just because your team played well and just because your players gave their best, a performance for people to be proud of… I think when you get used to it, that’s when the big clubs stop being big clubs."
The best thing for Chelsea is to get relegated; perhaps that way these clowns of owners will lose so much money they will be forced to sell. I dunno, man, what a mess. Trying to implement an American football model on British football is like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole
I also thought relegation would be a good idea ☹️ I wonder what the odds are? could be worth a punt 🤔
Stop talking out your arses both of you, relation would be suicide for the club we’d be finished in all aspects
@@BlazeGaara Whose relation?
@@casualagent7250I think he can't spell properly lol
@@BlazeGaara you are the one talking out of your ass. relation he said . what relation you are talking about. there is no relation between fans and owners, no relation between fans and coach, no relation between medical staff and players . heck no relation between players among themselves. its a mess. from top to bottom.
Shout out to Johnny minerals! Landing the dam minerals
They’ve mutated my club into something truly ugly, I can’t stand to look at it anymore.
Uglier than when you were an oligarch's plaything?
so we're fucked.
We need to riot or else we could literally get relegated
If they sell Palmer we’re fucked for real
@@WrongunFCi doubt they would because, they also get money from us (fans) due to shirt sales and tickets. So if chelsea isnt performing who will buy tickets to go see a game. If palmers leaves or anymore big names, the shirt sales will decrease.
Sighhhhhhhhhh...... fuck...
This video makes perfect sense. Nice work! We, the fans, often blame Boehly for our downfall, because mostly he makes the public interviews about Chelsea. But the true villain is Eghbali indeed. I remember when the takeover was completed, Todd wanted to sign the superstars like Mbappe and Ronaldo (even though he was 37, he was still elite). It was Eghbali and others who pushed for the "long-term project"
Thanks bro 🙌 I was fuming last night and editing by the side so didn't know if it all made sense haha. I'm all up for a long term project, but the way they've done it completely illogical and now we're in serious trouble if we have more seasons without Europe after spending so much.
@@PabloEditionIf we look at Bayer Leverkusen, we can see how the project works. When Alonso took over in October 2022, they were in a relegation battle, but here they are now. Very close to win the treble as INVINCIBLES. In our case, Clearlake have done totally vice versa. Even qualifying for the Conference League requires a miracle
And just look at how signing experience (ie. Xhaka, who's been one of their best players) has helped their wonderkids (eg. Wirtz, Frimpong) to flourish
@@PabloEdition yes definetly if chelsea is gonna be saved we need a experienced guy.
This sensibly and neatly analyzed video is very scary indeed 😟 Seems like there will be tougher times ahead, which would be a disaster for us already worrying fans! Unless they manage to pull a miracle as quick as possible, but that doesn't look likely to happen soon, unfortunately...
Give it time and the fans will rally outside the bridge for new Ownership.
Yes that will definitely work.
I Cant understand why that hasn't happened already. We should hav done this when the Establishment set about Roman with there stupid little scam about he needs to go because he knows Putin
This is very true why not keep d experienced players to play with d current ones
and now silva is leaving meaning our only player over 30 is bettineli. He hasnt touched the field in a year. were fucked we need to buy soemone experienced not no Osimhen somebody experienced when it comes to strikers it lacks today withem but atleat buy someone who has played long at any position and start him weve sold everybody for no reason.
These scumbags need to be kicked out of CFC asap … club is being destroyed from within.
Like Don Vito said: It was "Eghbali" all along!!
When someone with no football knowledge tries running a club
I'm an Arsenal fan but this is a fascinating view into club management. Always depressing to think that your club owners are prioritising profits over results but it's a sad truth that these owners are business men first and profits are their main concern. From the outside it seems obvious and laughable at how badly Chelsea have been managed since the Boehly takeover, I think that we (us UK footie fans) also like to laugh at the failure of the American approach of just throwing money at the problem and hoping it resolves. Boehly was certainly well out of his depth here. However, results are the most important thing for the fans, the owners and their sponsors etc.. It wasn't too long ago at all that Arsenal fans were protesting outside of the Emirates demanding the Kroenke's to get out of their club. Now that results are good, that all goes away. Football is pretty fickle
So is ours we have won nothing yet they are hyping the fans up like we are going to win the Champions league.
Well said
Poch is under pressure to 5:07 field Enzo & some injuries prone played even though he's not fit
Glad that someone sees it
Christ I cannot believe what a joke our club has become. These clowns aren't interested in building a title-winning team. All they're interested in is maximizing profits with no care whether we win a single trophy while they're here. Honestly makes me sick to my stomach.
It pains me so much to say that you have so much of this on point.
Minerals landed
"do you see me as a joke person?" 😂😂😂
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Chelsea is finished. The UK Government has destroyed our team and it's so painful to watch.
Hhaahahahah
They were trying to destabilise Roman yrs ago blocking his Buiss Visa macking him take up residency in Tel Avi and when the Ukraine situation pop the jumped at the chance to rip away the club and hand it over to there Equity fund mates fr Wall St
Or, you know, Chelsea could have been bought by sensible owners, who put the sport and the fans first instead of profits.
@@Zevrael The decision to accept the Clearlake bid was made by the UK government whose fingerprints are all over this!
The last part about cole palmer is the exact thing im scared of with this current club i believe there is a chance for something next season cole palmer has demonstrated alone that he is probably the most mature player that we have you could say that thiago silva is still a very crucial piece in this puzzle that the club has found themselves in simply due to the fact that he should rub off on these newer defenders similar to the whole hazard benzima vini jr learning process chalobah isnt cutting it which sucks because after the crystal palace screamer he scored i wanted nothing but the best for him. I guess any chelsea fans join in on this one im interested who do you prefer out of the two "major" rbs being both Gusto and James? I currently have to go with Gusto i think he's a perfect companion almost for setting up Palmer apart from Palmer himself there is just no one on this pitch that looks like they're remotely interested in the game I've said that the man city game felt like a 4v11 almost just no coordination terrible choice of Gallagher on captain I despise I think he's improved since coming in under Tuchel but I think I'd like to see some maturity in the squad developing actually from the back of the pitch wether that be Petrovic that gets the armband or Silva when he is on the fact that he is 4th is just unnacceptable in my eyes and this doesnt even come from a bias towards Silva i just think that its quite common to have the most mature player on the pitch to have the band no?
I'm seriously concerned that with more years out of Europe, we're gonna have to sell Palmer or Gusto just to meet FFP. To expect a team of U24 players to compete, especially when most of them have just joined the club is insanity. I actually like Gallagher as a player (though don't think he should be a regular starter at a top club) but isn't it absolutely crazy that a player who the club has tried to sell for 4 windows is now the club captain? It's all such a big mess, and all could have been avoided if the ownership just used some logic when building the club.
@@PabloEdition I 100 percent agree I believe that Gallagher looks like a lost dog when playing he will chase the ball I'll give him that but I cannot help but feel he is possibly the better defender out of him and Fernandez I truly believe if we played Gallagher back more endo foward we would see more clinical passes and agressive man marking in the final third also amazing video shared light on somethings I didnt even know where going on so thank you.
@@PabloEdition palmer is 100 percent getting sold all this player were bought to make profit on clearly they didn’t have building a team in mind when buying these players they’ve just bought players based off mark value projection if it doesn’t make sense financially then they won’t buy the plsyer even if it makes sencesportingly
Well made video. Thanks for summarizing the failed strategy so clearly.
Exactly it is getting to a point where it is scary as hell
Shoutout younes for bringing us here!! Great video
Lol we are doomed to mediocrity 😂
Very well explained hope this goes viral to all chelsea fans so they can see the mess that we are in
Thank for made this
very good work
The Injury crisis is my biggest concern. See RL Cheek and Pulisic who were always injured doing well in Italia. Something needs to change
Well that cheered me up 🙄 It does provide a clearer perspective but it’s damning non the less!
Wow! Truly informative. I am enlightened. Thank you. A Madridista here.
Where do u get all the news?
Pablo my g this video was fantastic, a deep and thorough insight into the state of Chelsea in an understandable format. 2k subs is not enough but this video will change it. Subbed.
Really appreciate that bro 🙌
Imagine an American thinking chelsea was poorly run and copied the model of a lower team. Chelsea have had one of the best youth system in the world but American thinks it is bad.
So If I'm understanding this correctly, Clearlake thought Brighton and RB Leipzig, two teams who have NEVER won a Champions League nor their domestic league, are better just because they're better at flipping young talent for profits? This is it. The day Capitalism has officially ruined football has truly arrived.
I learned a lot from this video about the potential future of our club. Thanks for this. 🙌🙌🙌
Exactly 💯 u on point caz y tf would u let kante,jorgi and kova? Who caicedo and enzo and conor gonna learn from? If they at least keep them for one more season this season would be different
Insightful video recorded from inside a filing cabinet
Yep 100k subs coming soon, great content.
Really appreciate that 🙌
So much for making the fans proud
i've always said this, selling the whole core team and replacing them with talent won't work, they dismantled the whole CL side within a season. So sure, some of them didn't quite fit in right and wanted to move on, but some of them needed to stay as pillars/base point of the team like Jorginho, Kante, Rudiger, Havertz maybe even Koulibaly deserved more time at the club! All guys with experience.
Christiansen
It couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch of fans
Meatloaf Boehly 🎶 I WILL DO ANYTHING FOR POUND NOTES 🤣🤣🤣 0:17
Why change a strategy which was working for the club, could have made small adjustment to there transfer strategy but what they’ve done does not make any sense at all.
Maybe be they're benefiting from their interests in another betting companies, as most of Chelsea results have been unpredictable tampering it with the help of Pochettino
Great video
Can someone explain how owners extract value by making us worse?? Also, Great video and agree on so much of it but a couple of rebuttals: 1. There are many clubs that operate the multi club model, not just Brighton (Man city, and Arsenal to name a few) 2. There are many clubs that use data driven models. In fact, probably every single big club in Europe. That is how Liverpool landed on Wataru Endo 3. Brighton aren't the only club that sign large amounts of players. Manchester city have bought around ~55 players since 2016/17 which is only ~10 less than Brighton all over what, 8 years? In general, I find it hard to argue that we are following the Brighton model when we are spending a billion and buying multiple players for 100m+.
Everything that was mentioned in the video was true, but I don’t understand how you’ve concluded that Eghbali is the villain and behind everything based on one interview where he repeats almost everything that Boehly has said in his own earlier interviews.
Because he owns clear lake and clear lake own 60 percent of Chelsea
@@tikemyson5627 Yes but even in the video it was mentioned that Eghbali didn't buy those 60% with his own money, unlike Boehly. You also have to consider that Boehly is the one that has a track record of having part ownership in other sports teams. He also tried to buy Chelsea before Abramovic got sanctioned which further indicates that it was most likely his idea to buy Chelsea and he probably just chose to partner up with Clearlake to raise the funds. Intentional or not, a lot of details/context about Boehly have been left out in this video in order to make this narrative that Eghbali is the villain.
@@TheMrLjupce there both equally villians along with Jose e feliciano there the 3 main guys but clear lake are the main investors and want to see quick profits so this whole multi club model buying selling players pure profit nonsense is coming from them
Clearlake needs to get their shit together or get the F out
Chelsea Wil never be the same don't be surprised if they relegated next season
Lol. Don't be foolish. We are higher than we were last season
@@nkemjikaprincejohn5907we will get relegated you wrongun
@@WrongunFC alright
I agree with every point made. Eghbali is the captain of this ship and I fear we're all on the Costa Concordia.
Who pressured to sell the club. Just think
I suspect the owners are even staking matches against the team, and if such allegations come up in the future I wouldn't be surprised
if you wanna look at multi club owners look at the largest, the CFG (City Football Group).
well im glad we lived the heights, the passion and the badge its sad to see us go out like this
Bro Chelsea will survive past these owners just gonna be a bumpy ride until they leave
I see what you're saying about flipping players for profit however what is so confusing and makes zero sense is buying Enzo, Caicedo and Mudryk for 300 million for the 3 players..They are definitely not going to be able to flip those 3 players for any kind of profit..The whole thing is a mess with no clear lines of objective
" Player farming " 😢😢
Very well constructed video. The only thing I'd add to it is to elaborate on what was touched on at Madrid. It's far more than just players like Kroos and Modric. They continue to buy the worlds best players, Rudiger, Alaba were brought in the past few years to solidify their lines, while players like Ceballos, VAsquez, Carvajal still there, Mendy...Benzema recently. They have surrounded themselves with players in their primes and senior players while buying a top young prospect seemingly each year. Guler, Endrick, Camavinga, Bellingham, Tchouameni the biggest names. The way Real Madrid conduct themselves is nothing like Chelsea. As the video clearly demonstrates, and as Craig Burley of ESPN most recently said post Arsenal thrashing - Roman Abramovich couldn't have sold the club to a worse ownership group. This is also a warning for other big clubs as it could happen to any team that is bought out and as hard to imagine a group doing a worse job than Clearlake and the consortium, when profit is the prime directive, anything is possible as we are witnessing with Chelsea.
thank you we should be calling this out its egbhali its him!!!!!!!!!!!
so they believe european football lacks proper data metrics and stats to assess players,and then they end up signing a player like nicholas jackson ,who has one of the worst conversion stats .
You failed to note that nobody buys a club for 4.5 billion dollars to run this model you talk about.
Well these owners have so what’s your point?
the forcing of the sale of chelsea fc is a hypocritic western govt selling a passion inorder to so called fix what is not broken.
What is beyond mind boggling to me is that there has been no fan protests aimed at the owners it's as if the fans are bewildered by the mess and don't know how to react...The fans need to let the 2 clowns and the inept recruitment team, beyond inept medical staff etc.. know that they are completely accountable for helping to destroy Chelsea...Beyond angry !
When Behdad Egg head said “Soccer” I knew it was over Pls these clowns should sell up !!
I sincerely want to Cry but Tears are not Coming Iam outraged 😡
Yup we're finishing 😢
Well said !! Maybe the government overseeing this project should have noticed this and used the analogy stated "in the best interest of the club, supporters, and players" as evidence of the future. TB has used HIS money to support this club and as of now, I will give him time. Putting politics aside Roman should also enter something akin to the Chelsea hall of Fame.
Meat loaf bohley probly the lesser evil but he’s still a part of the problem
Pure facts it’s all gone to there head and they all have no clue this is why I said Boycott before it’s to late 🗣️🙋🏾♂️
the hard truth is if we continue like this we'll be a another fallen big club, Chelsea needs ro forget about immediate profits because I know they want to sell the club in 10 years they should focus on getting leaders and experience and making Chelsea a title contender which will get its price to 5 billion
How can Chelsea go stable and winning trophies with such a plethora of shareholders ? 😢😢😢
This video needs to go places. Bro touched everything and gave correct points and answers. Word
Thank you bro 🙌
0:32 all the way back? Bruh 2022 was 17 months ago
0:18 dead 😂😂😂😂😂
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Next time don't add that liar Chairman Wontumi, he can't even buy a football club in Ghana
U are just making so much sense
Do they actually think they can flip Enzo or Caicedo?
This is deep! I'm broken
Dynamo London have historically been a small club. Nothing to see here
A fair assessment
Demise of Chelsea FC
“The worst she can say is no” she:
@pabloedition I watched this entire video and GENUINELY ENJOYEd it and am INVESTED - despite having absolutely NO PRIOR INTERST IN FOOTBALL / CHELSEA AT ALL and if that isn't the hallmark of a great content creator idk what is
"NO PRIOR INTERST IN FOOTBALL / CHELSEA AT ALL" you sound like our owners 🥲
Bring back our beloved club😢😢
Great video, depressingly 😞
Spot on
Scream this from the rooftops
Thats mean we are finish as a fans😢
Failing strategy..says it all..the club crest and Stamford Bridge is all that remains of our club...
And the standard of the fans which are most important
No yanks in football 👌
The sponsor on the shirt was because they were waiting on the FA to approve it