More than a billion euros spent since Todd Boehly took charge at Chelsea, with the support of the Clearlake Capital investment fund owned by Behdad Eghbali. Between them, they turned everything that had been done before in the world of professional football upside down, pushing the model ever further. They bet exorbitant sums on young players, with contracts of 8 or 9 years, they consider their players above all as assets, they shamelessly exploit new markets, like that of Saudi Arabia, to sell at competitive prices. gold (Koulibaly, E. Mendy), and invest in foreign clubs.
The Strasbourg Racing Club benefited from this, majority bought by BlueCo for the sum of €75 million. With already a first player sent on loan, the Brazilian Angelo Gabriel, aged 18. This multi-ownership strategy, developed by the City Football Group, will become Chelsea’s new workhorse. As reported by Daily Telegraphthe new objective is to take a minority stake this time in Sporting CP.
Sporting CP targeted
A significant investment in any case, since it is one of the three major clubs in the Portuguese championship, with Benfica and FC Porto. Above all, Sporting demonstrated its ability to reveal future talents and sell them at a high price. Through this additional means, Chelsea could send some of its players to train, in a context different from that of Strasbourg.
With ultimately two possibilities: either return to Chelsea with the aim of becoming a starter, or be sold definitively after having obtained more playing time and therefore more visibility. For Eghbali and Boehly, the norm is now to only recruit players aged 25 or less. Not sure this is a good option to win the Premier League in the short term. But for business, we won’t do better.