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You could also ask, how many time did the overlords going in front of the cameras when the team were not on such a good run this season. Going to be interesting to see if the overlords have any influence on how the marketing / sponsorship side of players like Cole Palmer

The only thing creamcakes are fans of is making money, regardless how they try to package it.

Chelsea’s recent form shows plan is ‘coming together’, says Todd Boehly LONDON, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 03: Todd Boehly, Owner of Chelsea looks on prior to the Premier League match between Chelsea FC and Brighton & Hove Albion at Stamford Bridge on December 03, 2023 in London, England. (Photo by Alex Pantling/Getty Images) By Adam Crafton 8h ago 40 Chelsea chairman Todd Boehly says the team’s past two and a half games demonstrate signs of the club’s plan “coming together” as head coach Mauricio Pochettino’s future continues to attract scrutiny. Chelsea remain in seventh place in the Premier League table amid another testing season, after finishing the first full campaign under the stewardship of Los Angeles Dodgers owner Boehly and the private equity firm Clearlake Capital in 12th position last year. Pochettino’s relationship with the club’s ownership and sporting directors Paul Winstanley and Lawrence Stewart has been under the microscope in recent months, with the Argentine suggesting contact with the owners has been limited. In response to questions regarding his relationship with Winstanley and Laurence Stewart, Pochettino said last month: “That’s a good question for them if you have the opportunity to ask them. But it’s not a subjective idea of us (that we have problems) — it is the reality.” The coach’s position will be reviewed at the end of the campaign but he may take some optimism from public comments made by Boehly during a Sportico conference in Los Angeles on Wednesday. Pochettino’s initial contract, signed last summer, was a two-year agreement with the option of a one-year extension. go-deeper GO DEEPER Mauricio Pochettino - should the Chelsea head coach stay or go? Boehly, who was not asked about the head coach during his interview, said: “We’ve seen the last two and a half games, at least in the second half at Aston Villa (2-2 draw) and Tottenham (2-0 win) and West Ham (5-0 win) where we played just beautiful football. “It was so fluid, it was exactly the way we drew it up, when we came out of the back, built up and moved up the pitch, (it was) very organised and the number of shots we had on board. In those two and a half games, you could really start to see what we were working on coming together. “Even the commentary has changed over the last two and a half games. I’ve never seen anything change so quickly.” Boehly was speaking during a one-on-one session in West Hollywood. He was asked why he decided to invest into Premier League football, having previously acquired the L.A. Dodgers baseball team. “There’s no bigger sport in the world,” Boehly said. “When you think about just the size and scale of European football, it’s just mind-numbing and there’s no better league in the world in the Premier League. If you look at how these guys play, the speed with which they play the game. One of my players who I had a great relationship with is Kalidou Koulibaly. Koulibaly came over from Serie A (where he played for Napoli) and he told me one time, ‘In Serie A, I get to think and then run but in the Premier League, I have to run while I think, and I’m still adjusting to that’.” Boehly also said that he was supportive of new proposals within the Premier League to add a hard spending cap to the new “squad cost” rules that are being introduced for the 2025-26 season. Based on the concept of “anchoring”, the de facto salary cap would limit the amount of money any club can invest in their squads by tying it to a multiple of what the lowest earners get from the league’s centralised broadcast and commercial deals. It will be formally voted on in a meeting at the Premier League’s annual general meeting in June. Chelsea abstained from the initial proposals in a meeting last week but Boehly indicated his support on stage on Wednesday. go-deeper GO DEEPER Premier League salary cap mailbag: Why? Who wins and loses? How would it work? “We’re supportive of anything that adds to the competitive nature of the sport,” he said. “The reason the Premier League is doing so well is because it is so competitive and everyone wants to watch it and no one knows how the games are gonna happen. If you look around at what’s going on right now in different European leagues, some of them are having a hard time selling their media (rights). I think the competitiveness that you’re going to continue to see and evolve as the sport evolves is just going be good for the Premier League.” Boehly was also asked how the Premier League can continue to boost its popularity in the United States, where the television deal with NBC was worth $2.7billion for the six seasons leading up to 2028, and where record Premier League television audiences have been recorded on six occasions in the past sixteen months. “You have to make it relevant to them (young people),” Boehly said. “And I think the sport is becoming more and more relevant. The window that they have on the east coast in particular Saturday morning and Sunday morning — where there’s nothing really that competes with other sports — really gives it a great opportunity to reach. “The fan fests that the Premier League do from city to city, you see them, it only builds momentum. Hopefully, (Chelsea midfielder) Cole Palmer will become a household name (here) soon. He’s been a phenomenon for us and so we’re thinking hard about how we continue to expand our brand in the United States. That’s ultimately a priority as well. “One of the things that Premier League clubs have is worldwide marks they can use — we’ve got a global group of players from Argentina to Brazil. Part of the long-range plan will be really to extend the brand as much as possible to build a fanbase because ultimately the larger our fanbase grows, the more competitive we’ll be able to be because these salary caps are based on revenue. “In order to compete, you have to have growing revenue. And I think a brand like Chelsea really allows for that. Growing that brand, especially globally, is predicated on winning. I think that winning is at the top of the things that’s most important. When you’re attracting a new fan, the key is to have something that’s really aspirational.”

On his salary absolutely. then in January he can choose his own destination.

Unlucky Tommy T, ManUre await your services.

You should stop because you are embarrassing yourself 04/05 season - DD scored 16 goals in 41 matches PL - 10 in 26 games won the PL CL - 5 including a couple against bayern home and away in the QF League Cup - 1 "in the final in extra time against the dippers" and won the league cup FA Cup - 0

IMO his wages were reasonable in the big picture when you see some who are earning more or near to his salary of ~£100k per week "if you believe sportstrac`'

You really need to make up your mind, Is he elite or just a number two

it's bit of rise and repeat of your comments yesterday, which you have tried to reframe, the answers i gave yesterday still stand

And what agenda is that? Tell you what sometime this month I will shout from the roof top that Chelsea is a top 4 team and will be up there next season with this squad, come September I will blame the coach for the lack of quality and piss poor results, wait until January to pop my head up again and have another dig at the coach, then wait until April to tell everyone that one player in a billion pound spend is the best thing since mothers pride, not forgetting to renege on a bet. Rinse and repeat every season Sound Familiar?

Wow pot calling the kettle black.

No point to go down this road again, you can defend Jackson as much as you like. Unfortunately he is not the man if the club wants to aspire to a top four position.

Maybe the not so dynamic duo - will conclude the clubs summer recruitment business whilst in town "Tony Bloom will be rubbing his hands" I'll get my coat

not the smartest move IMO - didn't get any minutes and probably put him back 12 months Didn't the club bring back the lad from forrest for lack minutes during that window. Would be interesting to know who made the call to bring Casadei back

Well done to Maatsen for reaching the CL final. Not a bad follow ups to winning the Championship last season When you look back on loans the better ones seem to develop from having a good season or two in the championship. Casadei is still a baffling one why he was brought back and has lost a considerable amount of first team football also the ego boost of winning the championship - One assumes he will be loaned again next season or sold

Schuuuuuuushh don't tell a certain anti academy poster on here that a certain LB loaned to a german outfit in January, has made the CL final, playing constantly in the first team and not bench warming. At least he's now nailed on to be sold this summer as part of FSP, unfortunately we won't be getting £60m.

Ziyech and Kepa contracts end in 2025. One would assume they will hang around until Jan-25 so they can choose their own clubs.

No they didn’t because the data presented by the not so dynamic duo to toddles and eggy more than likely said 70pts. However what was not taken in to account and should have been put as a risk, in letting scouts assemble a squad without any input from the first team coach. I am sure at the end of the season, when the not so dynamic duo do their end of season analysis to toddles and eggy, their highlight slide will focus on where the progress in cup competitions, xG, performance analysis against the top team, trending and KPI’s. You can also be assured that the slide expectations for next season will somewhere reference all the players who were injured this season as pluses for next season. very standard management presentation data that will be enough for another season blessing from Toddles, Eggy and creamcakes for Poch and the not so dynamic duo.

I guess we will only know the answer if Poch decides to play the ex-Monaco CB pairing again.

Done. two pints of larger and packet of crisps 😀

Of course I believe what I write. Poch as a coach is not the issue as proven at his previous clubs that he is a 60pts plus coach. Unfortunately it is the playing staff are the issue. The league doesn’t lie. Also who else can the not so dynamic duo turn to? As proven last summer top coaches are not interested in the Chelsea Philosophy or the current hierarchy structure.

Poch hit the 50pts mark so he is guaranteed to stay, also it would look bad on the not so dynamic duo who championed him to Toddles and Eggy's. Its all in the data 😮

The only ones who can answer the Poch conundrum for next season are the no so dynamic duo, who strangely been quite invisible for the whole of this season after giving it the full of why they had to get rid of the senior squad and the normal project Chelsea BS. IMO he done enough to warrant next season, with a bit of luck he might even get a chance to input into any summer signings, if not we are back to square one of not have round pegs in round holes.

correct and has looked more composed when being with guided by either Sliva or Chalobah or both. He's like bambi on ice when partnered with his Monaco teammate

So scoring around one in two at every club he's played for says he appalling. "you cannot count Chelsea because he was sent to Coventry by the not so dynamic duo". Like him or loathe him the bloke is a prolific goal scorer, something Jackson will not aspire too.