{"id":296664,"date":"2023-12-12T18:28:02","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T18:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/?p=296664"},"modified":"2023-12-12T18:28:02","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T18:28:02","slug":"is-todd-boehlys-chelsea-project-an-expensive-descent-into-mediocrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/soccer\/is-todd-boehlys-chelsea-project-an-expensive-descent-into-mediocrity\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Todd Boehly&apos;s Chelsea project an expensive descent into mediocrity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1> Marooned in 12th amid terrible form, &#8216;soft&#8217; at both ends of the pitch and Mauricio Pochettino asking for more signings despite \u00a31BILLION spent&#8230;\u00a0 Todd Boehly&#8217;s Chelsea project risks becoming an expensive descent into mediocrity<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Chelsea sit a lowly 12th in the table after another woeful defeat on Sunday<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>It&#8217;s hard to see too many signs of progress since Todd Boehly became owner<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Chelsea are WRETCHED without the ball and you haven\u2019t got a clue what team will turn up every week &#8211; Listen to It&#8217;s All Kicking Off\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Todd Boehly has taken a step back from Chelsea this season to focus on his many other business interests.<\/p>\n<p>The American owner was a familiar sight at their matches last season and was operating as their de facto sporting director.<\/p>\n<p>But Boehly has been less prominent this season, attending fewer games and delegating the hands-on aspects to his co-owner Behdad Eghbali.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea fans who have grown increasingly disillusioned about the direction of the club would say that&#8217;s no bad thing.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s because 18 months after Boehly and his consortium completed their \u00a34.25billion takeover at Stamford Bridge &#8211; following Roman Abramovich&#8217;s ousting &#8211; his project just looks like a very expensive descent into mediocrity.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/11\/12\/78819567-12850127-image-a-23_1702297002958.jpg\" height=\"422\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to discern too many signs of progress in 18 months of Chelsea under Todd Boehly<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/11\/12\/78819621-12850127-image-a-30_1702297082651.jpg\" height=\"448\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>It was another game to forget as Chelsea slumped to a 2-0 defeat against Everton on Sunday<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/11\/12\/78819655-12850127-image-a-31_1702297129505.jpg\" height=\"463\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Manager Mauricio Pochettino already appears to be under strain as he tries to sort the mess\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>Put it this way, the season before Boehly arrived, Thomas Tuchel led them to a third-place finish in the Premier League and two domestic cup finals. A year before, they were kings of Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Today, they sit a lowly 12th in the Premier League standings, the same position they finished last season. Given they don&#8217;t have European commitments this season, it&#8217;s thoroughly miserable.<\/p>\n<p>Mauricio Pochettino&#8217;s side have suffered grim losses at Manchester United and Everton &#8211; two teams hardly setting the world alight &#8211; in the space of a few days.<\/p>\n<p>The situation is even more shocking given the vast amount of money &#8211; over \u00a31billion on nearly 30 players &#8211; spent by Boehly.<\/p>\n<p>So what has gone wrong since the American took charge at Stamford Bridge?<\/p>\n<p><span>RESULTS<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sunday&#8217;s defeat at Goodison Park was Chelsea&#8217;s seventh league loss of the season. Reach back into last season under Frank Lampard&#8217;s woeful return and it&#8217;s a meagre six wins in 28 league outings.<\/p>\n<p>Pochettino is still only a few months in and is continuously reminding us of how building Chelsea back into a force will be a &#8216;long process&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s clear, rather like Manchester United, the aura the club once had now belongs to the past.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/11\/12\/78819691-12850127-image-a-32_1702297191966.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The Blues look deficient at both ends of the field despite spending over \u00a31billion on new stars<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/11\/12\/78819707-12850127-image-a-33_1702297225888.jpg\" height=\"415\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>There have been some chastening defeats this season, including a 4-1 thrashing at Newcastle<\/p>\n<p>Defeats to the likes of Nottingham Forest, Brentford and Everton &#8211; who&#8217;d be above them if not for their 10-point penalty &#8211; have become the norm.<\/p>\n<p>Performances remain some way off what is required. &#8216;Soft&#8217; is a word fans and pundits alike keep returning to when describing Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Inconsistent&#8217; is another topical word. A team that went toe-to-toe in a thrilling 4-4 draw with Manchester City were then crushed 4-1 by an injury-crippled Newcastle.<\/p>\n<p>The attacking statistics look a lot healthier under Pochettino compared to the start of last season under Thomas Tuchel and then Graham Potter.<\/p>\n<p>But defensively, Chelsea have too often been either bullied or ripped wide open. They&#8217;ve conceded as many goals as they&#8217;ve scored and still look deficient at the back in spite of the money spent.<\/p>\n<p>Yet asked about the poor form after Sunday&#8217;s loss, Pochettino said: &#8216;Anyone who understands football [knows this] is a new project, a new team.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/11\/12\/78819713-12850127-image-a-34_1702297323249.jpg\" height=\"420\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Thomas Tuchel was quickly removed as Chelsea&#8217;s coach after Boehly came in as owner<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/11\/12\/78819747-12850127-image-a-35_1702297384486.jpg\" height=\"450\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The job proved too big for Graham Potter (left), who lasted only a few months last season<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Too many circumstances again, it is tough to explain. Too many problems and circumstances from the start of the season. And it is not easy to build something new.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t sound like a manager with a clear vision of how to restore Chelsea to title challengers, more one still sweeping up the mess of predecessors and using it as a handy excuse.<\/p>\n<p>If Boehly hoped for a piece of silverware or a title challenge to kick-start his time leading the club, he&#8217;s been sorely disappointed and may well be for some time yet.<\/p>\n<p><span>MANAGERS<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Was Boehly too hasty in sacking Tuchel just a few weeks into last season?<\/p>\n<p>Hindsight is a wonderful thing but the disastrous Potter tenure that followed only posed questions about Boehly&#8217;s judgement.<\/p>\n<p>Does Pochettino deserve more time to build than Potter received? How many bad results will be be afforded? What is the yardstick of progress?<\/p>\n<p>Boehly has spoken about Tuchel &#8216;not being aligned&#8217; with his vision for Chelsea. &#8216;Our vision for the club was to find a manager who really wanted to collaborate with us,&#8217; he said last year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The reality of our decision was that we weren&#8217;t sure that Thomas saw it the same way we saw it.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The bizarre thing was firing the German seven days after the closure of a transfer window in which they&#8217;d spent a record \u00a3272million.<\/p>\n<p>Did it only emerge in those few days that Tuchel didn&#8217;t share the owner&#8217;s vision for the club?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/11\/12\/78819811-12850127-image-a-36_1702297444609.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Boehly made clear that Tuchel had not bought into his vision for Chelsea before his sacking<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/11\/12\/78819859-12850127-image-a-37_1702297495756.jpg\" height=\"424\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Tuchel had led Chelsea to Champions League glory a year before but that counted for little<\/p>\n<p>Potter was clearly seen as more pliable but was ill-equipped to deal with the bloated and expensive squad he inherited. He was expected to usher in a new style of football while getting immediate results and keeping a 30-strong squad happy.<\/p>\n<p>A process-driven coach anyway, Potter was always going to need several years to bring Chelsea back to strength in what was his first &#8216;big&#8217; coaching job.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, he took charge of just 31 games across seven months before being ditched. Given he was Boehly&#8217;s hire, he actually backed Potter far later than others on the board until things came to a head in early April.<\/p>\n<p>The job proved far too big for Potter and even Pochettino is starting to look overwhelmed by the scale of the task he has taken on.<\/p>\n<p>The Argentine looked an excellent appointment but only if afforded the patience to get on with his work and autonomy over recruitment to build a winning team in his image.<\/p>\n<p>A few months in and as results deteriorate, he might be struggling for both.<\/p>\n<p><span>STAFF<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the corporate world of America Boehly is accustomed to, new owners tend to announce their arrival by shaking things up staff-wise.<\/p>\n<p>It was no different at Chelsea, where a thorough 100-day audit of the structure at Stamford Bridge led to numerous high-profile departures and a severing of links to the Abramovich era.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/11\/12\/78819955-12850127-image-a-38_1702297729412.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Chairman Bruce Buck and director Marina Granovskaia were among two early departures<\/p>\n<p>Bruce Buck stepped down as chairman after 19 years, then the influential Marina Granovskaia &#8211; who took charge of Chelsea&#8217;s transfer business under Abramovich &#8211; followed.<\/p>\n<p>This confirmed that Boehly wanted to take charge of transfer business and contracts &#8211; which he did, with mixed results as we&#8217;ll get on to.<\/p>\n<p>But the cull didn&#8217;t stop there. Performance director Petr Cech, international head of scouting Scott McLachlan, commercial director Damian Willoughby and director of communications Steve Atkins also departed.<\/p>\n<p>Even long-serving medical chief Paco Biosca departed, which came as a surprise to the players. Given the new owners sent \u00a380m signing Wesley Fofana all the way to the United States for his medical, rather than doing it in-house, Biosca may have seen it coming.<\/p>\n<p>Even the ground staff weren&#8217;t spared, with long-serving head groundsman Jason Griffin and his assistant and son Reisse leaving early this year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/11\/12\/67252065-12850127-Paul_Winstanley_right_and_Laurence_Stewart_not_pictured_are_Chel-a-39_1702297787516.jpg\" height=\"349\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Paul Winstanley and Christopher Vivell welcome Joao Felix to Chelsea back in January\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By the start of 2023, the new-look Chelsea recruitment department had taken shape with Laurence Stewart and Paul Winstanley appointed as co-sporting directors, to work alongside technical director Christopher Vivell.<\/p>\n<p>That allowed Boehly to take a step back on the transfers but the money pump continued to operate at full blast.<\/p>\n<p>It all amounts to a lot of change and disruption behind the scenes in a relatively short space of time.<\/p>\n<p><span>SIGNINGS AND CONTRACTS<\/span><\/p>\n<p>One quite comical aspect of Pochettino&#8217;s post-match comments after the defeat on Sunday came when he suggested Chelsea need to spend themselves out of trouble.<\/p>\n<p>Over \u00a31billion spent in three transfer windows under Boehly but it appears another blank cheque is required next month.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/11\/12\/78819987-12850127-image-a-40_1702297923780.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>\u00a3115million midfielder Moises Caicedo takes on Manchester United&#8217;s Bruno Fernandes\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/11\/12\/78820001-12850127-image-a-41_1702297966391.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Chelsea broke the bank to sign Argentine midfielder Enzo Fernandez for \u00a3106m last January<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We need to talk and to try to improve in the next transfer market. That&#8217;s a thing to analyse with the sporting director and the owner and see what we can do to change the dynamic and improve,&#8217; Pochettino said.<\/p>\n<p>In fairness to Poch, he&#8217;s only overseen one transfer window and so many of the players he hasn&#8217;t inherited. It&#8217;s likely quite a few won&#8217;t fit into his plans at all.<\/p>\n<p>Quite how Chelsea can spend so much money and still be so deficient both in attack and defence is a real head-scratcher.<\/p>\n<p>The only discernible strategy under Boehly has been to sign apparently talented young players and tie them down to ridiculously long contracts.<\/p>\n<p>Enzo Fernandez and Mykhailo Mudryk signed 8.5-year deals, while Moises Caicedo&#8217;s is eight years. It amounted to a clever accounting hack, with smaller annual payments recorded on the accounts, but UEFA have now closed that loophole.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is what happens if these big money signings don&#8217;t perform? Can Chelsea ever hope to recoup their money on them?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/11\/12\/78820015-12850127-image-a-42_1702298024995.jpg\" height=\"464\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Mykhailo Mudryk has been criticised plenty since Chelsea bought him for an expensive \u00a388m<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/11\/12\/78820117-12850127-image-a-43_1702298076938.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Nicolas Jackson (left) has been criticised for his goal return in a less-than-potent attack<\/p>\n<p>Caicedo [\u00a3115m] and Fernandez [\u00a3106.8m] do not &#8211; as yet &#8211; look anywhere near the formidable midfield partnership Chelsea would love them to be. Mudryk [\u00a388.5m] is hardly setting the Premier League alight with his creativity.<\/p>\n<p>They have been unfortunate with the injuries suffered by Christopher Nkunku [\u00a353m] and Romeo Lavia [\u00a353m] and will be praying they&#8217;re not injury-prone.<\/p>\n<p>But neither are likely to solve Chelsea&#8217;s lack of potency up front. Nicolas Jackson [\u00a331m] has seven goals for the season but has been criticised for missing sitters.<\/p>\n<p>Pochettino still seems to be sifting through all these expensive arrivals, deciding who will deliver and who won&#8217;t. It&#8217;s a lot of people to keep happy.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, the manager wants more of his own signings, meaning Chelsea may have to cut their losses on a good few who arrived only last year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/11\/12\/78469499-12850127-Nkunku_suffered_a_serious_knee_injury_during_the_pre_season_tour-a-44_1702298144322.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Nkunku suffered a serious knee injury during the pre-season tour and has been out ever since<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/11\/12\/78469557-12850127-Lavia_pictured_with_Pochettino_has_already_yet_to_feature_for_th-a-45_1702298152307.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Lavia, pictured with Pochettino, has already yet to feature for the Blues after an ankle issue<\/p>\n<p>Boehly clearly sees no hard in flexing financial muscles but Chelsea massively overpaid on so many of these signings. Did they try and negotiate?<\/p>\n<p>Pundits like Gary Neville have accused Boehly of &#8216;playing Football Manager&#8217; &#8211; and not very well.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The returns on this heavy investment have so far been negligible. There have been some successes &#8211; Cole Palmer [\u00a342.5m] has started promisingly and Raheem Sterling [\u00a347.5m] has returned to form this season.<\/p>\n<p>But overall, Boehly&#8217;s time at Chelsea so far has been chaotic, messy and expensive &#8211; with little indication of any progress.<\/p>\n<h3>IT&#8217;S ALL KICKING OFF!\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p><span><span>It&#8217;s All Kicking Off is an exciting new podcast from Mail Sport that promises a different take on Premier League football.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>It is available on MailOnline, Mail+, YouTube, Apple Music and Spotify.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12850127\/Mauricio-Pochettino-Todd-Boehlys-Chelsea-project-expensive.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marooned in 12th amid terrible form, &#8216;soft&#8217; at both ends of the pitch and Mauricio Pochettino asking for more signings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Is Todd Boehly&amp;apos;s Chelsea project an expensive descent into mediocrity? 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