Todd Boehly, a multimillionaire who led a consortium that paid close to 5 billion euros for Chelsea just under a year ago, was outraged by yet another defeat by the Blues, now at Brighton & Hove Albion receptionand made a point of showing the state of mind to the team.
Advances the Guardian that after Saturday’s game he went to the locker room and devastated the squad. After seeing his team lose for the third time in a row and being jeered by the supporters himself, Boehly came down from the stand accompanied by two other members of the board, waited for Lampard to speak to the players and then addressed the players.
According to the same newspaper, the man who invested more than 600 million euros in the squad in just two market windows considered that the team’s season has been “embarrassing” and was particularly hard on one of the players hired for a large sum. on the last year. The Guardian does not reveal the identity of the player, who says he was disappointed with the situation to the point of having shown him in one of the work sessions already with a view to preparing this Tuesday’s game with Real Madrid for the 2nd leg of the quarter-finals of the Champions League.
Remember that Enzo Fernández was Chelsea’s most expensive signing, who paid Benfica 121 million euros in the last winter market. The Blues also invested €80m in Wesley Fofana, €70m in Mudryk, €65m in Marc Cucurella and €56m in Raheem Sterling, for example.
Chelsea are in 11th place from Premier Leaguealready a long way from the places of access to European competitions, and has one foot out of the Champions League, where they need to reverse a two-goal deficit to be present in the semi-finals.
