SPORTS NEWS; – Behdad Eghbali, who co-founded Clearlake with Jose Feliciano, seems to be very much in charge now. With Boehly effectively sidelined. In private conversations up until last year they put on a united front, but it is now clear that Boehly has reservations about the club’s new recruitment strategy and the failure to make significant progress on redeveloping Stamford Bridge. Behdad Eghbali and Clearlake are not going anywhere, and are not interested in selling.
Clearlake appears to be totally committed to Chelsea. Eghbali has been at all league games this season, and he was closely involved with the recruitment strategy. It is fair to say Clearlake would recognise that mistakes have been made over the past two years and results and performances need to improve.
They would argue that they have made many of the changes which needed to be made and Chelsea are now back on the right path to challenge for trophies again. A new commercial team has been hired, there is a new sporting structure, a new head coach and new players.
There is a feeling now that everyone should be focusing on delivering on and off the pitch. Stability is key. Todd Boehly is committed to Chelsea, but he’s not in control. He has his own ideas about how Chelsea should be run, but he can never be the ultimate decision-maker when someone else owns 61.5%. Eghbali and Clearlake would be interested in buying his shares. Credit to {Sky Sports}
