Todd Boehly doesn't have the money to buy out Clearlake nor be able to run Chelsea alone. We'll get better I'm not fussed right now. This club needs to stop buying 15 players a window. So I'm hopeful after this season we'll stop this madness then we can start to look at the progression of the team.
Todd may not have the money, but guy has all the connections in the world. Remember, it was Todd who first brought Clearlake into his team to buy Chelsea. Also Todd himself has a net worth of 8.5-9 billion so I don’t think it will be very difficult for him to arrange the money to present a proposition to Clearlake, reports are saying he has the backing of a lot of investors.
@@shivamUTCpeople keep saying this, but then we're literally just in the same position we are in now? The people that will technically own clearlakes shares will be different investors
I do think he has the ability to buy it out with his connections. But I don’t think Clearlake would give up Chelsea easily or even at all being the majority shareholders.
Great thought provoking session. Whatever the owners do the coaches and squad need to work on their game over the coming weeks and start making it happen. CONCENTRATE ON WHAT YOU'RE GOOD AT GUYS 💙
14:13 I think Yan just summed it up here. Our whole identity under Roman was "Win us a trophy". That relied more so on the manager than it did the squad, technical staff and owner. There's a lot of pride and joy that came with it but looking back I can say that it was pretty shallow lol. It proved unsustainable towards the end with the gap between us and City/Pool widening. Also the club wasn't making any kind of profit anymore either and we were lucky that Roman had deep pockets. It's going to be a bloodbath for number 1 when Pep retires but I feel fairly confident that we'll emerge supreme with Clearlake. Arsenal are going to be found out this season and Liverpool will' be our main competitor.
Todd Boehly learning from mistakes and at least got sport background... Clearlake Capital do only care about pure profi$t of Cobham graduates & buying young players to sell them later
Todd Boehly also has Mark Walter on his side, both of those guys, primarily Mark Walter led The Dodgers to where they are today. I trust Boehly and Mark far more than Clearlake.
It's design by committees - rarely works on a restricted budget & since Eghbali is all about profit . . . . . hmmm. CFC 's recruitment was inspired under one sporting director - Hazard, Fabregas, Lamps, Makalele, Czech & Kante etc etc. If Boehly was to delegate & dare I say it bring back key personnel Eva & Czech etc then maybe we'd start healing as a club.
I sense anger, so I'll be careful not to poke the bear, I understand and agree in principle to your comment, but in the current climate, second to man city feels like more than the emptiness of 8th or 10th or competing for the conference.. It feels like nobody can match city without also cheating to a crazy level. Lol I'm a Chelsea fan, so I'm down for that. But I do like the idea of trying to do it "right", and as much as I hate them, I think that we have to look at how liverpoo and arsenal have got to that position of at least being competitive..
8:46 TBH with you Yan we seem to find it convenient to remember what conditions Poch was working under with the players not knowing each other new players coming in. Having to do deal with a large group of players. I believe a lot of Chelsea supporters have a problem with Poch because he was from spurs. what the fans don't realise is one of the board members is a massive Tottenham fan and try to buy spurs off Daniel. I'm not taking sides when it comes to this ownership.I just want stability and our main problem is we have a great team full of individuals and not a team. That's what worries me about the contracts being incentivised. It could lead to players beginning greedy and not passing to players in better positions. focusing on bonus.
Team clearlake all the way. They have bought in immense potential in youth. More than any other team in the world. Massively reduced our wages. We are the best financially run club in England. They have doubled down by bringing in players who chelsea fans would have wanted under Roman - Nkunku, Neto, Felix, Palmer, Sancho, Caceido, Gusto etc. Great experience. They almost nearly got Osihmen. No doubt will in January. The manager is looking like qaulity. Chelsea are so close to exploding onto the scene winning loads. Eggbali knows extactly what he is doing. Its an incredible time. 2 seasons of dirt performances is nothing. This year will be a huge improvement and clearlake will wrap it all up next year. There is literally nothing terrible to criticise unless you are off weak sensitive emotional mind.
Completely agree!!! All those fans who wants to win everything now are spoiled brats that keeps loading matches in Football Manager… The club had to be remade!!!!! This take time and atleast now we have a plan
@@d.roberts7794 cause we had a transfer Ban and then new owners and its not 1990 anymore…new rules in both uefa and premier league has to try to Secure a more sustainable club stature and not relying on a sugar daddy anymore…. So I Think we are on an excting progress path and have gone waaaay further than you could expect…just look at where united are and look at how Long it took Liverpool, Arsenal and city to be where they are now… this is not football manager and a complete overhaul Will take time…
There are players with great potential but Chelsea have a stable and not a team. And two more must starters arrive next year. You have over three very expensive midfielders on long contracts that cannot play together.
Whether you want Clearlake or Boehly bottom line is going into year 3 we have made no progress on the pitch. Difference between Chelsea and Arsenal or any other top club is stability , vision and lack of chaos . At Chelsea it never ends
@@hnaku8748you have to realise that both are simply acting on orders and sub categories for the kinds of players they’re told to target. they find the best of what they can to hit the the parameters required of them.
This one is difficult for me. When we, as a club, were doing new and different things I often shrugged off the mocking and occasional failures, because I thought I saw a grand plan from the club. This news very much undermines that idea and I don’t know what to think anymore.
Can't believe most fans favor Boehly when he set us back 2 yrs with poor early player & coaching decisions (even wanted to keep Poch!) and everything has improved since he stepped aside, as he knows less about the sport than Clearlake staff. Just because he owns 20% of the Dodgers and resembles a lovable sheepdog it's clear his firm and Clearlake are in the same business, and no such firm buys a football team for ongoing near-term profit (unless you're the Glazers) you do so only to: a) be close to a sport you appreciate and b) Sell in 10 yrs for a huge profit, possible ONLY with sporting success. Had Todd run further amok we'd likely have likes of both Ronaldo & Casemiro on 750k/wk. The Clearlake approach, despite clear mistakes, is more efficient, quite fascinating, but needs 3+ years (from the Boehly-induced Maresca reset) to even begin to assess.
Look that first window was part of the model, they wanted to and thought that they’d be able to run it in-house as a board. You’ve literally just read the briefing that Todd doesn’t want that structure. He wants a single director so why act like it would be back to the first window? He’s learned and wants a more traditional model
Maybe it's all a ploy to legally illegally put money into the Chelsea coffers, like pretend to fall out buy one out and money goes to Chelsea. I'm all for it it😂
Imagine if we somehow get that frozen billions by UK government back into the club somehow. For me the dream scenario would be the war stopping, Roman getting the club back, and those billions being reinvested into the club. I know it's near impossible, but just imagine the rival and agenda media tears.
I completely agree that running the club like Roman did is completely unsustainable. Just look at the richest club in the world, in Newcastle, and how they can’t buy the players they want (due to PSR). It is a new era and way of running a clubs. Many will mock and refuse to try and understand what we are doing, but in many ways it is really innovative and novel. Not all of it will work, but at least there is a proper infrastructure in place.
We need a period of stability for the team and with Maresca in charge I don't think this will effect the team, Whatever happens with the owners I hope it gets sorted quickly but with how difficult it will be to buy the each other out I feel this will take some time.
Deep inside I sense lot already have. But no one wants to be seen as a negative nancy. Until Clearlake change how they approach things (like not just football, but normal human things like not referring to fans/supporters as customers) I think relationship will remain a bit strained. Personally for me the hit is digestible if we're uncompromisingly winners on pitch. But that's just me. Opinions will vary.
@@hnaku8748 we will never win anything while Clearlake and Egbhali,Winstsnley and Stewart are running the club and more worryingly I think this just shows how much of a yes man Maresca is
Chelsea's biggest weakness since 2019 has been the business side of building the squad. Whomever is in charge of negotiating contracts never seems to understand that once young players start fulfilling their potential they'll expect salaries comparable with elite players. This has lead Chelsea to waste tens if not hundreds of millions of pounds replacing Cobham-graduates who were sold for 'pure profit'. Compare the fees received for Guehi and Tomori to what was spent signing Disasi and Fofana. Maresca's signing is relective of the lack of coherency between the football and operations departments. It makes no sense switching styles completely if the idea is to build a squad around a philosophy and hire head coach who fits into that philosophy. It seems that Chelsea has reverted to a manager-centric model. Now they've had to shelf Chilwell and sell Maatsen and Gallagher. Chelsea now has KDH who is not younger or better than Gallagher. When Maresca leaves Chelsea will have to buy a another set of leftbacks.
Yan, if we did a combined 23 man squad, here's how it would look for me: Raya Neto Sanchez James Gusto Gabriel Saliba Colwill White Cucurella Timber Rice Caicedo Odegaard Jorginho Lavia Nkunku Saka Neto Palmer Madueke Jackson Havertz I put White as a CB as right now, he's better than Fofana as just a defender. Nkunku as competing with Odegaard as an attacking midfielder. So that's 12/23 that's Chelsea and 11 obviously for Arsenal
Yes, agreed the first transfer window was a bit of a mess. But you also have to remember that Chelsea was officially allowed to be active in the market after a month. Of course it was a time of huge transition. Marina leaving, Peter leaving with other key figures in the club. We had lost Rudiger, Christiansen and some more already. Todd didn’t get any in built sporting structure to rely on. Out of all the shareholders he is the only guy with sporting background to step in and get some players in. I am pretty sure if he had a strong sporting director he would’ve taken a step back and work as a chairman to get things done. I feel like judging him just based on that is unfair.
Yan, this is one of the best insightful analysis of yours I really enjoyed about Poch and Todd 😎. Fans were happy with last five games but those wins are not enough to retain his position if we want a wining mentality not just friendly or competitive vibes. I did not feel he was bold enough to win even it means not beefing nice to players or media. I think being a winner at the top level requires wise and bold decisions and such could sometimes be interpreted as being ruthless.
This is where most people are wrong…. Boehly is a winner he wants his sports teams to WIN regardless of money etc…. Eghbali is the complete opposite he wants a profit and does not care too much about winning more about being profitable. The Osimhen transfer was handled by Eghbali, this is how most of our transfers will go with Clearlake at the helm, we will buy young players 10-15 and sell them for 5-10 mill more than what we bought them for and the use a few in our squad. Meanwhile we will be mid table but create a huge amount of profit for the club….
Not to mention all the chances we created that were missed. Ronnie would have bagged quite a few of those. If he could score for that Man U team, he could have easily done that for us.
I think this is genuinely a wild situation, especially after only like 2 years. If boehly can secure the money and hopefully make them a good enough offer that they accept I believe we will get back to major trophies, title charges etc. If clearlake win however I belive we'll be a glossier version of Brighton, we'll make top 8 more often than not but I don't think we'll win anything. Cole plamer and all our best players will push for a move and chelsea won't be as attractive as it once was. I think if we all want todd boehly which is the impression I'm getting we all need to make it known.
Not sure you understood the video. Yan is saying Tod B was useless when he was in charge of recruiting. Yan is certainly not endorsing Tod B buying out the other share holders.
Wonder if differing opinions on new stadium behind the power struggle. In fighting wont help Chelsea, they need to sort it out or sell there shares. Anyone else hoping for a transfer ban?
The multi-club model in Man city is completely different from the one we are running. City’s feeder clubs are working for City but that team in France will become another cash cow for em to sell/loan players they can’t move. City’s mentality is based on winning and it’s evidently prioritized, but Chelsea clearlake’s mentality is profit margins and returns.
Regarding Poch - the club gave no positive vibes and effort to keep him at the end of last season. Poch could stay at a club where he wasn’t really backed. That wasn’t going to work. So, he departed. He was effectively sacked.
Yea sorry Todd but Poch had to effing go. This guy was playing Chilwell at left wing. Playing Colwell at LB when he had better options and we STILL were conceding set piece goals at alarming rates. Left Caicedo on an island by himself too many times. Played Enzo further up the pitch which we all know stinks because Enzo is doing the same crap. Plus he genuinely contributed to the overall injury crisis by over training the players and his Klopp-esque style of play despite our players being the more technical,possession style players. He committed war crimes. He had to go. All this multi club model bullshit can go in the bin though. It’s affecting the team negatively.
It is obvious Eghbali doesn't know what he's doing, he is a man on an ego trip. He's not running the club like a business. Boehly would probably welcome being bought out before the value of the club tanks. That CL winner's premium won't last much longer. Most managers want to work again and in these days of PE ownership, they have to show they left on good terms and can be managed.
People got carried away with how we finished last season. Fact is we were lucky to win some of those last games, didn’t control the play and were lucky to win. There were other games where we played better but ended up losing or drawing. Poch football was too kamikaze
Yeah, the Poch thing was mutual, from everything I gather. And that's somehow, something about that, is causing a problem with Poch being hired by the US national team.
You keep talking about how bad our defense was last season, but our attack was the best it has been in over 10 years. I love the football we saw last season especially against bigger club. If we were more clinical and had less injuries we would have made top four last season
What I have read is that Clearlake would be willing to buy out others. I have not read that Boehly is actually wanting to sell. What have I missed. I do believe reports that Boehly backed Poch and was over ruled in that decision.Boehly is a Chelsea fan, tried to buy the club previously and I think Clearlake are more responsive to investors. I do believe in the end it will work out. I hate the reports that Boehly is being forced to step down when that was the plan initially.
Hey respect your opinion Yan/enjoy your content - A reminder, Clearlake Captial = Investment firm not concerned about what happens on the pitch winning 🏆 over MAKING MONEY they have said/proved it with this current strategy. The lesser of two evils Boehly did make massive mistakes with the initial statergy absolutely, however winning NOW not in 5 years is his focus desire reflected in his other sports franchises. Leave a great team in place hands off with one sporting director is the vision for stability.
As a Chelsea fan, I'm happy we didn't dishonor our colors by letting him wear them. And I'm happy we're spared the damn circus of his fans pretending to be Chelsea fans and talking all kinds of nonsense about how the team should really revolve around him.
I can’t even decide who I want to buy out who, I think I want both to be involved as both have good and bad ideas. I like the idea of Boehly but I’m glad Poch is gone and in that instance I’m with clear lake. I just don’t know man. I don’t even know what I don’t know.
Thank God poch is gone, atleast under Maresca we can see a certain style of play. Also our recruitment has been good, earlier Sterling signing was soo bad
@@daeball125 They are but their unamortized cost is so high that we can't realistically sell them without making a PSR loss. Same problem with Mudryk. If he'd been from our academy, he would've been sold. But the reality is, we can't sell him. Likewise Enzo Fernandez. Wesley Fofana. Sterling at 30 mil earning 325k per week is also not easy to move. And that's why we should stop making those big transfers and frankly do smarter business.
I said it from the beginning, this is not how to build a team, since the team is successful, whatever changes have to be gradual, easing off players you don’t need, thereby saving loads of money and still maintaining your success.we started having stability under Poch.and the players have started improving why allowing him to leave? That’s blue murder
To me it feels like Egbahli is much more invested in the football and the team building than Boehly and even if there are disagreements (which is normal) the structure of the project is still in place and will not affect our game
I think he just wanted stability at managerial front. Specially after that run towards the end. Perhaps he also knew we wouldn't be appointing anyone better CV wise.
There is a lot of recency bias here. Nobody complained about any of the initial Boehly purchases at the time. The choices are Clearlake (who see cfc as a business) vs Boehly (who sees cfc as a sports team). If clearlake takes over, we will gradually become spurs, with a focus on the business end. We will see how this plays out, but 2 sporting directors make no sense!
This was always going to happen,,, Spending money like water on very ordinary players and undoing all the good work done by professionals in the Abramovich years,,, Such a mess of a club we have become,
Civil War? This isn’t personal. This is just business. When these two got into bed together, they should have decided which neighborhood they were going to feel most comfortable. Todd wants all the stars in Brentwood. The Eggman wants to live in Anaheim with lots of room for his kids to grow.
I normally agree with yan, but I still think CR7 to Chelsea would've been a good decision. The guy knows how to score, all this talk about beautiful football and tactics has us changing managers like trends, atleast the next gen would've learnt how to become beasts in the gym and how to finish with Ronaldo beside them.
Shit about to hit the pan, may as well see what clearlake are like when they're in charge for 2.5 years and if boehly wants the club then he can buy it
I hope somehow Boehly can win this war. Our aim should be to succeed and as a result grow their investment. Not to try to grow thier investment at the cost of success. Spending huge amounts on young players that will increase in value and spending so little on peak aged players feels like Clearlake and will hamper success
You'd rather our roster to Arsenal? Can we please compare the last 2.5 years in the standings? Yan, 12th, 6th, now 11th. You're honestly taking the piss out of your subscribers now. That hurts man
Todd boehly is clueless!! He wanted Ronaldo, Neymar and bought fofana and Sterling on massive wages… Atleast Egbali has some sense! And tries to build a club that has to be sustaiable and with a backbone structure… only concern I have is that we buy all these Young players and Selling Them again like we just did with Angelo!
We didnt try to sign Oshimen because if we did, he'd be here now. There was no one else in for him. They just would not pay Napoli wage. If you want elite player's you dont insult them with mickeyMousee money. That was and along with every other blunders should be a warning sign. We should cut our cloth with these penny pitchers. Americans out,Saudi in.
I see so many people, pardon my French, babbling about how great it would be to go back to mindless purchases of big names, as if that really solves all the issues. Look at the squad. What big holes are there? There really aren't many. We need backup defenders that don't suck, we arguably need a more classic striker as an alternative to Jackson, and we need a proper goalkeeper. That's about it, isn't it? What we have isn't a bad squad that need big, huge names to function. What we have is a ridiculous amount of talent that need a sensible manager to work. And that squad will get even better over the next couple of years, in part because some of the kids we bought transition into adults, and on top we're adding a couple of the most ridiculous talents in the entirety of world football. We don't need big honking transfers. All that does is tie our hands behind our backs. Every time we try the big honking transfers of those big honking names, it ends up being a disaster. I don't like treating players like commodities but that BS approach has allowed us to very rapidly put enough money into overhauling our squad without violating any rules, and the main obstacle we've had are actually the big honking transfers that we should not have made that constitute such an enormous drain on our economy. I like Todd more than I like Eghbali, but if it's a question of more year 1 windows vs our year 2-3 windows then I'm definitely on team 2-3. If it's a question of being a big spender like PSG vs being pretty much self-sustaining like Liverpool, I'm on team Liverpool. I much prefer a business that can stand on its own legs over one that needs to be held up artificially. And most importantly, if it's a question of being an independent club versus a state-owned PR zombie, I much prefer to remain independent.
"Every time we try the big honking transfers of those big honking names, it ends up being a disaster." ... I sense lot of fans have PTSD over this from Roman era. But those transfers failed (at least in my opinion) not because of the money we spent but because of our lack of clinical scouting / recruitment. The budget signings can fail too. Remember Djilobodji? Or Sarr more recently? It's more Real Madrid vs Liverpool model. Not PSG. No one is against signing young potentials, just balance them out with signings that can deliver now. Not in a hypothetical future.
This squad is unlikely to win anything major. It is OK, but it looks like a mid-table squad. It is not good enough to challenge City, Liverpool or Arsenal. Abramovich built teams and hired managers to win major trophies and compete with Real, Barcelona, and Bayern. We can forget about that.
I don’t why Yan is rooting for Clown lake, yeah Tod made some mistakes but he’s the reason we choose this consortium bcuz of his experience of running and building a successful sports clubs. Clearlake knows how to double an investment and they will do it in expense of our success in the field. That’s the only clear thing I see
@@nightops9526 yeah man, I respect when he’s calm and not click baiting but he’s off the mark here. There’s no single reason to support Clearlake, just pure blind “hope” that all these risks we took will come to fruition. I’ve realized that he doesn’t like a change, he sounds like he just got used to Clownlake show and they’ve ruined it for him lool Todd is the lesser evil, and that’s gud enough in a world that ain’t evil free.
Todd this Todd that. It’s a dog eat dog world inside the club’s boardroom. Would this affect the team and on the pitch? We’ll see how many goals per game Wesley concedes every week.
You said Arsenal is "super tight" at the back but you forgot to realise that Arteta is in his 6th or 7th YEAR with Arsenal whereas Enzo is in his 3rd MONTH with Chelsea.
It's wild how much people can be prisoners of the moment, how reactionary their thinking and how much bias and misinformation form their opinion. Those who want Boehly to reign are most likely the same fans that crucified, critized and insulted him all kind of things. Wouldn't it be better to form an opinion on reliable sources, real information and facts. Well, then again, look at the world 🤔😐 Love your content, Yan 💙 You are one of few that always leave me with a positive, honest and thought provoking state of mind. Thank you for that 😊
Todd Boehly doesn't have the money to buy out Clearlake nor be able to run Chelsea alone. We'll get better I'm not fussed right now. This club needs to stop buying 15 players a window. So I'm hopeful after this season we'll stop this madness then we can start to look at the progression of the team.
Todd may not have the money, but guy has all the connections in the world. Remember, it was Todd who first brought Clearlake into his team to buy Chelsea.
Also Todd himself has a net worth of 8.5-9 billion so I don’t think it will be very difficult for him to arrange the money to present a proposition to Clearlake, reports are saying he has the backing of a lot of investors.
idk there’s been a lot of rumours Todd is talking to some Middle Eastern dudes for possible investment partnership
That would be the best, Todd’s ambition and the middle eastern money
@@shivamUTCpeople keep saying this, but then we're literally just in the same position we are in now? The people that will technically own clearlakes shares will be different investors
I do think he has the ability to buy it out with his connections. But I don’t think Clearlake would give up Chelsea easily or even at all being the majority shareholders.
In my option the UK government are to blame for forcing abramovich to sell chelsea to these clowns
Roman was a dirty Russian politician, let it go already you big baby!
🤫 you’re making too much sense.
Or the Russian Government for attacking Ukraine.
Boris the slag
It's not taking sides Yan it's just venting frustration at another shit show where Clearlake could end up turning us into Tottenham.
Great thought provoking session. Whatever the owners do the coaches and squad need to work on their game over the coming weeks and start making it happen. CONCENTRATE ON WHAT YOU'RE GOOD AT GUYS 💙
14:13 I think Yan just summed it up here. Our whole identity under Roman was "Win us a trophy". That relied more so on the manager than it did the squad, technical staff and owner. There's a lot of pride and joy that came with it but looking back I can say that it was pretty shallow lol. It proved unsustainable towards the end with the gap between us and City/Pool widening. Also the club wasn't making any kind of profit anymore either and we were lucky that Roman had deep pockets.
It's going to be a bloodbath for number 1 when Pep retires but I feel fairly confident that we'll emerge supreme with Clearlake. Arsenal are going to be found out this season and Liverpool will' be our main competitor.
Excellent take 👌
Most people are just too ignorant these days, jumping on the trending opinion
Todd Boehly learning from mistakes and at least got sport background...
Clearlake Capital do only care about pure profi$t of Cobham graduates & buying young players to sell them later
I don't mind buying and selling young players but we should be leveraging that to buy more expensive players we aren't doing that
Todd Boehly also has Mark Walter on his side, both of those guys, primarily Mark Walter led The Dodgers to where they are today. I trust Boehly and Mark far more than Clearlake.
It's design by committees - rarely works on a restricted budget & since Eghbali is all about profit . . . . . hmmm.
CFC 's recruitment was inspired under one sporting director - Hazard, Fabregas, Lamps, Makalele, Czech & Kante etc etc.
If Boehly was to delegate & dare I say it bring back key personnel Eva & Czech etc then maybe we'd start healing as a club.
I miss Marina 😊
Lampard was signed by Ken Bates.
You said you like the "Arsenal Model". So, Chelsea should wait for SEVEN YEARS to win a major trophy, like your "Yardstick Arsenal"?
I sense anger, so I'll be careful not to poke the bear, I understand and agree in principle to your comment, but in the current climate, second to man city feels like more than the emptiness of 8th or 10th or competing for the conference..
It feels like nobody can match city without also cheating to a crazy level. Lol I'm a Chelsea fan, so I'm down for that. But I do like the idea of trying to do it "right", and as much as I hate them, I think that we have to look at how liverpoo and arsenal have got to that position of at least being competitive..
8:46 TBH with you Yan we seem to find it convenient to remember what conditions Poch was working under with the players not knowing each other new players coming in. Having to do deal with a large group of players. I believe a lot of Chelsea supporters have a problem with Poch because he was from spurs. what the fans don't realise is one of the board members is a massive Tottenham fan and try to buy spurs off Daniel. I'm not taking sides when it comes to this ownership.I just want stability and our main problem is we have a great team full of individuals and not a team. That's what worries me about the contracts being incentivised. It could lead to players beginning greedy and not passing to players in better positions. focusing on bonus.
Whichever owner signed up estavo and paez gets to stay.
Why the whole switch up? Old room was so cleannn.
Team clearlake all the way. They have bought in immense potential in youth. More than any other team in the world. Massively reduced our wages. We are the best financially run club in England. They have doubled down by bringing in players who chelsea fans would have wanted under Roman - Nkunku, Neto, Felix, Palmer, Sancho, Caceido, Gusto etc. Great experience. They almost nearly got Osihmen. No doubt will in January. The manager is looking like qaulity.
Chelsea are so close to exploding onto the scene winning loads. Eggbali knows extactly what he is doing. Its an incredible time. 2 seasons of dirt performances is nothing. This year will be a huge improvement and clearlake will wrap it all up next year. There is literally nothing terrible to criticise unless you are off weak sensitive emotional mind.
Completely agree!!! All those fans who wants to win everything now are spoiled brats that keeps loading matches in Football Manager… The club had to be remade!!!!! This take time and atleast now we have a plan
Why did the club have to be remade? We were club world champions when clownlake took over
@@d.roberts7794 cause we had a transfer Ban and then new owners and its not 1990 anymore…new rules in both uefa and premier league has to try to Secure a more sustainable club stature and not relying on a sugar daddy anymore…. So I Think we are on an excting progress path and have gone waaaay further than you could expect…just look at where united are and look at how Long it took Liverpool, Arsenal and city to be where they are now… this is not football manager and a complete overhaul Will take time…
There are players with great potential but Chelsea have a stable and not a team. And two more must starters arrive next year. You have over three very expensive midfielders on long contracts that cannot play together.
15 goals in a whole season. Let's reflect on that for a moment.
Whether you want Clearlake or Boehly bottom line is going into year 3 we have made no progress on the pitch. Difference between Chelsea and Arsenal or any other top club is stability , vision and lack of chaos . At Chelsea it never ends
Cheers for the update Onslow
2 sporting directors who are both robbing a living from us 😂😂
Absolutely.
Grade A stooges. But I do sometimes wonder if they'd work different with different commands.
@@hnaku8748you have to realise that both are simply acting on orders and sub categories for the kinds of players they’re told to target. they find the best of what they can to hit the the parameters required of them.
“From us”? You going to the matches yeah?
@@hnaku8748 yeah I think so too
This one is difficult for me. When we, as a club, were doing new and different things I often shrugged off the mocking and occasional failures, because I thought I saw a grand plan from the club. This news very much undermines that idea and I don’t know what to think anymore.
Can't believe most fans favor Boehly when he set us back 2 yrs with poor early player & coaching decisions (even wanted to keep Poch!) and everything has improved since he stepped aside, as he knows less about the sport than Clearlake staff. Just because he owns 20% of the Dodgers and resembles a lovable sheepdog it's clear his firm and Clearlake are in the same business, and no such firm buys a football team for ongoing near-term profit (unless you're the Glazers) you do so only to: a) be close to a sport you appreciate and b) Sell in 10 yrs for a huge profit, possible ONLY with sporting success. Had Todd run further amok we'd likely have likes of both Ronaldo & Casemiro on 750k/wk. The Clearlake approach, despite clear mistakes, is more efficient, quite fascinating, but needs 3+ years (from the Boehly-induced Maresca reset) to even begin to assess.
Look that first window was part of the model, they wanted to and thought that they’d be able to run it in-house as a board. You’ve literally just read the briefing that Todd doesn’t want that structure. He wants a single director so why act like it would be back to the first window? He’s learned and wants a more traditional model
Maybe it's all a ploy to legally illegally put money into the Chelsea coffers, like pretend to fall out buy one out and money goes to Chelsea. I'm all for it it😂
Imagine if we somehow get that frozen billions by UK government back into the club somehow. For me the dream scenario would be the war stopping, Roman getting the club back, and those billions being reinvested into the club. I know it's near impossible, but just imagine the rival and agenda media tears.
Like Roman did with wiping out the 1 billion that CFC owed him personally.
@@hnaku8748 agree on the war part but the government have spent that Dosh already lol
it's a rollercoster ride being a Chelsea fan ...lovin it
Todd stays or get Romen back Clarkclown hell no
Little Freudian slip there with the sacking of Boehly 😂
I completely agree that running the club like Roman did is completely unsustainable. Just look at the richest club in the world, in Newcastle, and how they can’t buy the players they want (due to PSR). It is a new era and way of running a clubs. Many will mock and refuse to try and understand what we are doing, but in many ways it is really innovative and novel. Not all of it will work, but at least there is a proper infrastructure in place.
We need a period of stability for the team and with Maresca in charge I don't think this will effect the team, Whatever happens with the owners I hope it gets sorted quickly but with how difficult it will be to buy the each other out I feel this will take some time.
Love the effort you're putting in Yan to not only the content but the setup, equipment etc!
The match going fans will turn against Egbahli and Clearlake
Deep inside I sense lot already have. But no one wants to be seen as a negative nancy. Until Clearlake change how they approach things (like not just football, but normal human things like not referring to fans/supporters as customers) I think relationship will remain a bit strained. Personally for me the hit is digestible if we're uncompromisingly winners on pitch. But that's just me. Opinions will vary.
@@hnaku8748 we will never win anything while Clearlake and Egbhali,Winstsnley and Stewart are running the club and more worryingly I think this just shows how much of a yes man Maresca is
They won't..they are all cowards like George Benson...they can't fave the truth and deal with it
The match going fans are mostly idiots crying and booing and not really singing or supporting the team at all… Stamford Bridge is so silent and toxic
Chelsea's biggest weakness since 2019 has been the business side of building the squad. Whomever is in charge of negotiating contracts never seems to understand that once young players start fulfilling their potential they'll expect salaries comparable with elite players. This has lead Chelsea to waste tens if not hundreds of millions of pounds replacing Cobham-graduates who were sold for 'pure profit'. Compare the fees received for Guehi and Tomori to what was spent signing Disasi and Fofana.
Maresca's signing is relective of the lack of coherency between the football and operations departments. It makes no sense switching styles completely if the idea is to build a squad around a philosophy and hire head coach who fits into that philosophy. It seems that Chelsea has reverted to a manager-centric model. Now they've had to shelf Chilwell and sell Maatsen and Gallagher. Chelsea now has KDH who is not younger or better than Gallagher. When Maresca leaves Chelsea will have to buy a another set of leftbacks.
Yan, if we did a combined 23 man squad, here's how it would look for me:
Raya
Neto
Sanchez
James
Gusto
Gabriel
Saliba
Colwill
White
Cucurella
Timber
Rice
Caicedo
Odegaard
Jorginho
Lavia
Nkunku
Saka
Neto
Palmer
Madueke
Jackson
Havertz
I put White as a CB as right now, he's better than Fofana as just a defender. Nkunku as competing with Odegaard as an attacking midfielder.
So that's 12/23 that's Chelsea and 11 obviously for Arsenal
Yes, agreed the first transfer window was a bit of a mess. But you also have to remember that Chelsea was officially allowed to be active in the market after a month. Of course it was a time of huge transition. Marina leaving, Peter leaving with other key figures in the club. We had lost Rudiger, Christiansen and some more already. Todd didn’t get any in built sporting structure to rely on. Out of all the shareholders he is the only guy with sporting background to step in and get some players in. I am pretty sure if he had a strong sporting director he would’ve taken a step back and work as a chairman to get things done. I feel like judging him just based on that is unfair.
True talk bro
Yan, this is one of the best insightful analysis of yours I really enjoyed about Poch and Todd 😎. Fans were happy with last five games but those wins are not enough to retain his position if we want a wining mentality not just friendly or competitive vibes. I did not feel he was bold enough to win even it means not beefing nice to players or media. I think being a winner at the top level requires wise and bold decisions and such could sometimes be interpreted as being ruthless.
Yes, the color of walls can affect sound reverb because the color of a surface can impact how sound reflects or absorbs.
Very subtle.
one thing about chelsea we create more drama than a soap opera...never a dull day in london..smh
Studio looking good!
This is just business and is a more positive sign than a negative one. Go the blues
Our ownership group not being on the same page is absolutely not a positive sign
I was working on the river thames during that storm, was madness haha
This is where most people are wrong…. Boehly is a winner he wants his sports teams to WIN regardless of money etc…. Eghbali is the complete opposite he wants a profit and does not care too much about winning more about being profitable. The Osimhen transfer was handled by Eghbali, this is how most of our transfers will go with Clearlake at the helm, we will buy young players 10-15 and sell them for 5-10 mill more than what we bought them for and the use a few in our squad. Meanwhile we will be mid table but create a huge amount of profit for the club….
I still think that , us having Ronaldo would have been way better than lukaku 💯😂😂😂
And it would have also boosted our sales in terms of jerseys 😭💯
Well Lukaku was already here sadly haha
Not to mention all the chances we created that were missed. Ronnie would have bagged quite a few of those. If he could score for that Man U team, he could have easily done that for us.
😂😂 so damn true man.
Feels like this is all one big movie or TV show, all acting so they can make more money on this plot.
I think this is genuinely a wild situation, especially after only like 2 years. If boehly can secure the money and hopefully make them a good enough offer that they accept I believe we will get back to major trophies, title charges etc. If clearlake win however I belive we'll be a glossier version of Brighton, we'll make top 8 more often than not but I don't think we'll win anything. Cole plamer and all our best players will push for a move and chelsea won't be as attractive as it once was. I think if we all want todd boehly which is the impression I'm getting we all need to make it known.
Not sure you understood the video. Yan is saying Tod B was useless when he was in charge of recruiting. Yan is certainly not endorsing Tod B buying out the other share holders.
@StarskyBuba it was never in regards to the video I just wanted to give my opinion on the situation 🤷🏾
@@alexhamlet1038 ah. fair enough.
Dude Ronaldo doesn't miss the shots the team gave our strikers
Wonder if differing opinions on new stadium behind the power struggle. In fighting wont help Chelsea, they need to sort it out or sell there shares. Anyone else hoping for a transfer ban?
Drama FC.
The multi-club model in Man city is completely different from the one we are running. City’s feeder clubs are working for City but that team in France will become another cash cow for em to sell/loan players they can’t move. City’s mentality is based on winning and it’s evidently prioritized, but Chelsea clearlake’s mentality is profit margins and returns.
Regarding Poch - the club gave no positive vibes and effort to keep him at the end of last season. Poch could stay at a club where he wasn’t really backed. That wasn’t going to work. So, he departed. He was effectively sacked.
Yea sorry Todd but Poch had to effing go. This guy was playing Chilwell at left wing. Playing Colwell at LB when he had better options and we STILL were conceding set piece goals at alarming rates. Left Caicedo on an island by himself too many times. Played Enzo further up the pitch which we all know stinks because Enzo is doing the same crap. Plus he genuinely contributed to the overall injury crisis by over training the players and his Klopp-esque style of play despite our players being the more technical,possession style players. He committed war crimes. He had to go. All this multi club model bullshit can go in the bin though. It’s affecting the team negatively.
It is obvious Eghbali doesn't know what he's doing, he is a man on an ego trip. He's not running the club like a business. Boehly would probably welcome being bought out before the value of the club tanks. That CL winner's premium won't last much longer. Most managers want to work again and in these days of PE ownership, they have to show they left on good terms and can be managed.
People got carried away with how we finished last season. Fact is we were lucky to win some of those last games, didn’t control the play and were lucky to win. There were other games where we played better but ended up losing or drawing. Poch football was too kamikaze
Yeah, the Poch thing was mutual, from everything I gather. And that's somehow, something about that, is causing a problem with Poch being hired by the US national team.
You keep talking about how bad our defense was last season, but our attack was the best it has been in over 10 years. I love the football we saw last season especially against bigger club. If we were more clinical and had less injuries we would have made top four last season
Ice cold new room!
What I have read is that Clearlake would be willing to buy out others. I have not read that Boehly is actually wanting to sell. What have I missed. I do believe reports that Boehly backed Poch and was over ruled in that decision.Boehly is a Chelsea fan, tried to buy the club previously and I think Clearlake are more responsive to investors.
I do believe in the end it will work out. I hate the reports that Boehly is being forced to step down when that was the plan initially.
This guy is such a Pochetino hater 😭 really, Lampard and Potter was better than Poch? At least he got us 6th place and back into European football l
Hey respect your opinion Yan/enjoy your content - A reminder, Clearlake Captial = Investment firm not concerned about what happens on the pitch winning 🏆 over MAKING MONEY they have said/proved it with this current strategy. The lesser of two evils Boehly did make massive mistakes with the initial statergy absolutely, however winning NOW not in 5 years is his focus desire reflected in his other sports franchises. Leave a great team in place hands off with one sporting director is the vision for stability.
Problem is, who picks that sporting director?
Though I'm a Chelsea fan, I'm happy we didn't get the privilege of signing him. The disrespect we exuded was unbelievable.
As a Chelsea fan, I'm happy we didn't dishonor our colors by letting him wear them. And I'm happy we're spared the damn circus of his fans pretending to be Chelsea fans and talking all kinds of nonsense about how the team should really revolve around him.
I can’t even decide who I want to buy out who, I think I want both to be involved as both have good and bad ideas. I like the idea of Boehly but I’m glad Poch is gone and in that instance I’m with clear lake. I just don’t know man. I don’t even know what I don’t know.
Thank God poch is gone, atleast under Maresca we can see a certain style of play. Also our recruitment has been good, earlier Sterling signing was soo bad
@@riya4144Badiashile and Disasi is bad too
@@daeball125 They are but their unamortized cost is so high that we can't realistically sell them without making a PSR loss. Same problem with Mudryk. If he'd been from our academy, he would've been sold. But the reality is, we can't sell him. Likewise Enzo Fernandez. Wesley Fofana. Sterling at 30 mil earning 325k per week is also not easy to move.
And that's why we should stop making those big transfers and frankly do smarter business.
I said it from the beginning, this is not how to build a team, since the team is successful, whatever changes have to be gradual, easing off players you don’t need, thereby saving loads of money and still maintaining your success.we started having stability under Poch.and the players have started improving why allowing him to leave? That’s blue murder
The irony for Pochettino is that he played as a defender. You would think he could easily coach that
signings 2022/23 were absolutely shocking. enzo 115 mil, fofana 75 mil, mudryk 65 mil, cucurella 60 mil, sterling 50 mil, koulibaly 35 mil, badiashile 33 mil, carney 15 mil, casedei 10 mil, felix loan 10 mil, aubamayang 10 mil. might be the worst two window in football history.
To me it feels like Egbahli is much more invested in the football and the team building than Boehly and even if there are disagreements (which is normal) the structure of the project is still in place and will not affect our game
Honestly how dare we think we can relax now
At this point they all need to sell up to a new owner who will give us our club back
If Boehly backed Poch that's a huge red flag for him.
I think he just wanted stability at managerial front. Specially after that run towards the end. Perhaps he also knew we wouldn't be appointing anyone better CV wise.
Bohely may have taken wrong decisions but his intention is to have a team that wins games. Can't the same about Clearlake .
If the horse was designed by committee...it would of been a camel....
There is a lot of recency bias here. Nobody complained about any of the initial Boehly purchases at the time. The choices are Clearlake (who see cfc as a business) vs Boehly (who sees cfc as a sports team). If clearlake takes over, we will gradually become spurs, with a focus on the business end. We will see how this plays out, but 2 sporting directors make no sense!
This was always going to happen,,, Spending money like water on very ordinary players and undoing all the good work done by professionals in the Abramovich years,,, Such a mess of a club we have become,
Does anyone remember the days when Chelsea used to be in the news for winning games. Seems like a lifetime ago.
Put curves in the corners 👍
think its time for some couples counselling between todd and egbhali
Civil War? This isn’t personal. This is just business. When these two got into bed together, they should have decided which neighborhood they were going to feel most comfortable. Todd wants all the stars in Brentwood. The Eggman wants to live in Anaheim with lots of room for his kids to grow.
I don’t understand the point of having two sporting directors if Eghbali is just micro managing them behind the scenes.
Watching my club fall apart season after season... all because of a beef between 2 countries.
I normally agree with yan, but I still think CR7 to Chelsea would've been a good decision.
The guy knows how to score, all this talk about beautiful football and tactics has us changing managers like trends, atleast the next gen would've learnt how to become beasts in the gym and how to finish with Ronaldo beside them.
Shit about to hit the pan, may as well see what clearlake are like when they're in charge for 2.5 years and if boehly wants the club then he can buy it
I hope somehow Boehly can win this war. Our aim should be to succeed and as a result grow their investment. Not to try to grow thier investment at the cost of success. Spending huge amounts on young players that will increase in value and spending so little on peak aged players feels like Clearlake and will hamper success
You'd rather our roster to Arsenal? Can we please compare the last 2.5 years in the standings?
Yan, 12th, 6th, now 11th. You're honestly taking the piss out of your subscribers now.
That hurts man
Don’t worry. Old Yan doesn’t know about our standing in the Premier League to date.
Arsenal are tight at the back...................THE Michael Scott in me "Thats what he said"
I 💙 the direction and progress we are making so it sounds like the best for everyone is bye bye Boehly 👍
Uk government needs to take responsibility forcing roman out yet the Saudis are fine to own clubs with their human rights absolute joke
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Todd boehly is clueless!! He wanted Ronaldo, Neymar and bought fofana and Sterling on massive wages…
Atleast Egbali has some sense! And tries to build a club that has to be sustaiable and with a backbone structure… only concern I have is that we buy all these Young players and Selling Them again like we just did with Angelo!
We didnt try to sign Oshimen because if we did, he'd be here now. There was no one else in for him. They just would not pay Napoli wage. If you want elite player's you dont insult them with mickeyMousee money. That was and along with every other blunders should be a warning sign. We should cut our cloth with these penny pitchers. Americans out,Saudi in.
Todd Boehly has Mark Walter on his side and wants an upgraded stadium, not a new location. I'm team Boehly.
Old studio had a soul and vibes, new studio kinda meh.. :/
I see so many people, pardon my French, babbling about how great it would be to go back to mindless purchases of big names, as if that really solves all the issues. Look at the squad. What big holes are there? There really aren't many. We need backup defenders that don't suck, we arguably need a more classic striker as an alternative to Jackson, and we need a proper goalkeeper. That's about it, isn't it?
What we have isn't a bad squad that need big, huge names to function. What we have is a ridiculous amount of talent that need a sensible manager to work. And that squad will get even better over the next couple of years, in part because some of the kids we bought transition into adults, and on top we're adding a couple of the most ridiculous talents in the entirety of world football.
We don't need big honking transfers. All that does is tie our hands behind our backs. Every time we try the big honking transfers of those big honking names, it ends up being a disaster. I don't like treating players like commodities but that BS approach has allowed us to very rapidly put enough money into overhauling our squad without violating any rules, and the main obstacle we've had are actually the big honking transfers that we should not have made that constitute such an enormous drain on our economy.
I like Todd more than I like Eghbali, but if it's a question of more year 1 windows vs our year 2-3 windows then I'm definitely on team 2-3. If it's a question of being a big spender like PSG vs being pretty much self-sustaining like Liverpool, I'm on team Liverpool. I much prefer a business that can stand on its own legs over one that needs to be held up artificially. And most importantly, if it's a question of being an independent club versus a state-owned PR zombie, I much prefer to remain independent.
"Every time we try the big honking transfers of those big honking names, it ends up being a disaster." ... I sense lot of fans have PTSD over this from Roman era. But those transfers failed (at least in my opinion) not because of the money we spent but because of our lack of clinical scouting / recruitment. The budget signings can fail too. Remember Djilobodji? Or Sarr more recently?
It's more Real Madrid vs Liverpool model. Not PSG. No one is against signing young potentials, just balance them out with signings that can deliver now. Not in a hypothetical future.
This squad is unlikely to win anything major. It is OK, but it looks like a mid-table squad. It is not good enough to challenge City, Liverpool or Arsenal. Abramovich built teams and hired managers to win major trophies and compete with Real, Barcelona, and Bayern. We can forget about that.
Yes Yan!!
like little school kids pathetic.
I don’t why Yan is rooting for Clown lake, yeah Tod made some mistakes but he’s the reason we choose this consortium bcuz of his experience of running and building a successful sports clubs. Clearlake knows how to double an investment and they will do it in expense of our success in the field. That’s the only clear thing I see
Yan was rooting for Mr A in the past. Yes he’s now flying the flag of Clown Lake one day and next flag of Todd.
@@nightops9526 yeah man, I respect when he’s calm and not click baiting but he’s off the mark here. There’s no single reason to support Clearlake, just pure blind “hope” that all these risks we took will come to fruition. I’ve realized that he doesn’t like a change, he sounds like he just got used to Clownlake show and they’ve ruined it for him lool Todd is the lesser evil, and that’s gud enough in a world that ain’t evil free.
Todd this Todd that. It’s a dog eat dog world inside the club’s boardroom. Would this affect the team and on the pitch? We’ll see how many goals per game Wesley concedes every week.
Al chlelsealal here we go❤❤❤❤
You said Arsenal is "super tight" at the back but you forgot to realise that Arteta is in his 6th or 7th YEAR with Arsenal whereas Enzo is in his 3rd MONTH with Chelsea.
He is in his fifth year, until December. Your point still stands though.
Clubs cooked
Todd and the saudis unite!
No thank you
Doesnt time fly
kinda feels like todd gets blamed for decisions made by behdad or the sporting directors…
(not including that first transfer window)
Team boehly over the shady capital management firm
It's wild how much people can be prisoners of the moment, how reactionary their thinking and how much bias and misinformation form their opinion. Those who want Boehly to reign are most likely the same fans that crucified, critized and insulted him all kind of things.
Wouldn't it be better to form an opinion on reliable sources, real information and facts. Well, then again, look at the world 🤔😐
Love your content, Yan 💙 You are one of few that always leave me with a positive, honest and thought provoking state of mind. Thank you for that 😊