“I would like to continue expanding my footprint in football through another club in a competitive league in Europe,” said the manager.
The owner of the blue team highlighted the movement of the Red Bull factory, which has two clubs in the Champions League (RB Leipzig and RB Salzburg) and is alternating the exchange of young players between clubs, as in the case of Erling Haaland, Dominik Szoboszlai or Benjamin Sesko.
Last May a consortium led by Todd Boehly took over the London club in a transaction worth £ 4,250m (€ 4,971m). Of the total investment made, £ 2,500 million (€ 2,924 million) will go to purchase 100% of the club’s shares, while £ 1,750 million (€ 2,047 million) will go to develop the club’s academy, the Chelsea Foundation. and other facilities.
The change of hands was also accompanied by movements in the offices. After Boehly joined the club, Marina Granovskaia (general manager), Bruce Bruck (president) and Petr Cech (sporting director) left the entity because the executive didn’t have them.
After investing more than € 260 million in transfers last summer, Boehly has also given up the services of manager Thomas Tuchel, because “it is the right time to make the move”, according to a statement from the club. His replacement, Graham Potter, left Brighton & Hove Albion in exchange for twenty million pounds (€ 22.5 million).
The Chelsea owner also intends to emulate what he has done in the NBA or NHL and organize an all-star game with the best players from the north of the UK and those from the south.
Despite winning the Champions League on 30 May 2021, Chelsea ended the 2020-2021 fiscal year (ended 30 June) with losses of 153.4 million pounds (182.7 million euros).
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