Things have been going well on the pitch for Chelsea in the last few games which has done well to take attentions away from the ownership issues we have been hearing about the last few weeks.
Things have seemingly gone pretty quiet on that front for now, but we can not forget all that has been reported and said about the ownership split between Todd Boehly’s side and Behdad Eghbali/Clearlake’s side. There has certainly been issues and tension even though the pair were spotted sitting together watching Chelsea beat West Ham last Saturday. It seems that was more a show of solidarity to hopefully help things on the pitch more than anything else.
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The Blues owners have probably not wanted this to all become as public as it has done, because that could have harmed things on the pitch and distracted the players. Thankfully, it hasn’t done that yet.
Business as usual
Sky Sports reporter Kaveh Solhekol had an update on this situation last night during the Chelsea vs Barrow game in the League Cup, a game in which The Blues won 5-0 in the end.
Kaveh posted on X.com:
“Nothing’s changed in the relationship between Chelsea owners Clearlake/Behdad Eghbali and Todd Boehly. They sat next to each other in directors’ box at West Ham. They enjoyed the performance and the 3-0 win but no one is getting carried away. Relationship status businesslike.”
So it sounds like the pair are not yet planning to proceed forward together and something surely still has to give?
So much for the breathless (and totally overblown) claims of “civil war” reported repeatedly by this outlet and others! As I said at the time, I understand why tabloids like The Sun over-sensationalize stories like these, but you’d certainly hold out hope that a fan-driven site like this one would err on the side of caution if not for journalistic reasons then for the simple purpose of not inadvertently (and unnecessarily) damaging the club it claims to support!
Alas, Chelsea News hardly showed such restraint (even days into the story when it had started to become clear that initial wisps of “smoke” were NOT, in fact, accompanied by an all out “fire”) and now it reports on the “businesslike” status of relations between co-owners without any acknowledgment that it rushed to judgment with earlier, repeated reports of “civil war.” Nobody expects journalists to get it right 100% of the time, but the good ones at least have the integrity to acknowledge when they get it wrong.