Todd Boehly was in attendance on Tuesday night to watch his Chelsea side get battered by PSG in their Champions League last 16 second-leg tie, and Chelsea fans let their frustrations be known.
It was a hammering. Having capitulated in Paris a week ago, there were hopes that Chelsea would put up some form of fight. Losing Wesley Fofana, Reece James and Malo Gusto before the game didn’t help.
But even then, fans hoped the atmosphere – which was brilliant before the game and for the first few minutes – might give this Chelsea side the impetus to produce one of those Champions League miracles.
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However, it wasn’t to be. Mamadou Sarr, who has been stripped of his AFCON title, was at fault as PSG star Khvicha Kvaratskhelia opened the scoring. Bradley Barcola and Senny Mayulu also scored goals.
An 8-2 aggregate defeat, the first time Chelsea have conceded eight goals over the course of two ties. Joe Cole launched an impassioned defence of Liam Rosenior, but Todd Boehly did not earn the same fate.
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On his Dressing Room Podcast before the game, Cole went on a brutal rant of Boehly’s five-year plan and questioned why it had not been changed or adapted. The frustration was clear among Chelsea fans.
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Long gone are the days of Roman Abramovich’s glory years, even if Chelsea have just been fined £10.75m for illicit payments to agents and other individuals during his tenure for the signings of 10 Chelsea stars.
Chelsea fans miss Abramovich. They miss the silverware almost guaranteed every season. Nizaar Kinsella says, with Boehly in the stands, there were “Chants for Roman Abramovich at Stamford Bridge (again).”
None of this is on Rosenior, but Boehly is the one with the power
Chelsea were always going to lose to PSG. Over the course of the two legs and certainly on aggregate, having suffered a 5-2 loss in Paris. Even on the night, it looked like men against boys at times.
Chelsea made the same mistakes, time after time, and it required a leader with experience to tell his teammates during the game to change tactics. Yet, because of Boehly, Chelsea lack any kind of leader.
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His plan to bring young players in on massive contracts and develop them is finally coming back to bite Chelsea on the backside. It is a plan now, four years down the line, that simply is not working.
Rosenior is being tasked with putting out flames. In the last week, Chelsea have lost three games, another defensive injury in Trevoh Chalobah, who was stretchered off after James, and a Premier League fine.
Rosenior is doing what he can. There may be some naivety in the way he has approached games or even in press conferences, but even the best manager in the world would struggle. It’s a dark time for Chelsea.
But Boehly is the man with the plan, the man with the big red button, the man with the power. Some board members feel Rosenior could be sacked, even though this is all on Boehly. A potential scapegoat.
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