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Chelsea – What The Actual ….?!?

The situation at Chelsea is the most insane of all the insanity that has gone on this season, and there is a hell of a lot of crazy this year. So many managers coming and going, so many transfers, that made no sense, including Nottingham Forest buying an entire squad and a few extras. But nothing has quite come near to the lunacy at the west Londoners. From the moment Russia invaded the Ukraine and sanctions were brought against Russian oligarchs like Roman Abramovich, forcing him to sell the club, the club has been degenerating into a mess. In fact, right now it is probably in enough of a state to be called a laughing stock of the kind to bring out the old jokes about OXO being their next shirt sponsor.

Everything has been such a shambles since the moment it was put up for sale. There was the whole bidding process itself, with Ratcliffe’s INEOS making a late bid, just late enough to get the publicity for himself but too late to be considered to actually buy the club. All while he was wittering on in the media spotlight about being a Chelsea season ticket holder. Now of course he is busy whoring himself in the media about being a lifelong Manchester United fan, all while making a bid for that club which is completely unpalatable to anyone who is a genuine Man Utd fan.

Back to Chelsea and they ended up in the hands of a consortium with little to no idea of running a football club. They did get lucky in one respect, the rats deserted the sinking ship as all the technical staff left. While that might not have been lucky in the short term, in the long term it has meant that that group of people that have been failing badly for years, and dragging Chelsea backwards, will all be replaced. Though there does seem a bit of overkill in terms of the number of sporting/technical directors that have been brought in, all of them seem a major upgrade on the previous incumbents.

The problem is that, while all this was being sorted out, the face of the new consortium Todd Boehly decided he would take charge of everything, despite clearly knowing absolutely nothing about the sport of soccerball that he was now involved in. Actually while we are on the subject of Boehly, how on earth did he end up as the lead of this group anyway? Had anyone even heard of him beforehand? And what made him seem like a good choice to head up a bid of this magnitude? We are talking about billions of pounds being played with…