“Just fine” – Boehly denies ownership “drama” but admits they could “go different ways” | OneFootball

Todd Boehly faced the cameras at the Milken Institute Global Investors’ Symposium in Hong Kong this morning an was asked some tough questions by Bloomberg’s Haslinda Amin.

She went straight for the jugular, asking the Chelsea co-owner about his reported split with fellow owner Behdad Eghbali and his Clearlake Capital group. As you’d expect, Boehly denied the rift was as serious as reported, although he didn’t deny it entirely:

“What the media writes about is exciting, but I just don’t think it’s realistic. If you look at the evolution of the team, we’ve been aligned with what we are trying to do and trying to build. The status quo is something that is just fine” the co-owner said.

“We learn from each other. We have to think about long-term what we are trying to accomplish, we have a big stadium development opportunity that we have to flesh out. And I think that is where we will either align or go different ways. But what has been talked about is a lot more drama than what is actually happening.”

Boehly tows the party line over ownership dispute

Todd Boehly and Behdad Eghbali with a cracked badge.

While Amin was unafraid to ask tough questions on the business side, she didn’t have the deep understanding of the football side to really push Boehly on the details of whether he was happy with his his money had been spent so far, and whether the returns he had got were as expected.

For as long as the team are in the Champions League places, it’s easy to point to that and say that everything is going to plan. Even if he and Eghbali despise each other so much that they can’t be in the same room together (and there’s no suggestion that’s the case) it doesn’t suit either of them to present anything other than a united front.