Todd Boehly “might sell all of his stake” in Chelsea according to claim from ESPN pundit | OneFootball

The Gab and Juls show is one of the best football podcasts out there because both Gabriele Marcotti and Julien Laurens know their stuff, and also because they’re not afraid to get into the granular detail of events.

This isn’t just your usual football show rounding up the viral moments from the weekend before. They like to get technical and stuck in to more than just the goals and gaffes.

In today’s edition they got in deep on Chelsea’s ownership situation, in the light of the sacking of Mauricio Pochettino on Tuesday night. Marcotti had some really interesting speculation about what these events might be telling us about the future of Chelsea’s ownership.

The current setup is Todd Boehly as part owner, with the majority of the club owners by the “Clearlake” group, headed up by Behdad Eghbali. It’s actually more complicated than that, but it’s the easiest way to explain it.

A consortium that could fall apart

Marcotti claimed that Boehly and the Clearlake duo of Eghbali and Feliciano “don’t see eye to eye.”

“We’ve seen Boehly stepping back… they seem to be at odds… I think Boehly might fade into the background, maybe sell part of his stake or all of his stake. He’s not going to be visible,” the pundit continued.

It’s an interesting take on things. Of course we hear so little from them it’s hard to get a read on what’s going on behind the scenes, but the reporting that Eghbali was anti-Pochettino while Boehly came out and publicly praised the coach recently certainly backs up Marcotti’s speculating that the two parties are pulling in different directions.

Whether or not that leads Boehly to sell part of his stake or just take more of a passive role overall remains to be seen, but as Marcotti points out, the overwhelming financial might is with Clearlake.