Todd Boehly is coming up to three years of involvement at Chelsea and Simon Jordan believes that he could benefit from his expertise after the two men held discussions
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Simon Jordan would be interested in helping Todd Boehly at Chelsea
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Former Crystal Palace owner Simon Jordan has suggested that he would be interested in helping Todd Boehly at Chelsea. Boehly has received a lot of media attention since becoming the face of the £4.25billion Chelsea takeover in May 2022 and has fallen out with his fellow shareholders.
Boehly and Behdad Eghbali – the co-founder of Clearlake, who own a 61.5 per cent share in the club – have been at loggerheads over decision making behind the scenes. There were reports that both sides would be keen to buy each other out, with the situation earlier in the 2024/25 season described as ‘untenable’.
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Things have quietened down since, but it remains unlikely that Boehly – who has a 13 per cent stake, the same as fellow businessman Hansjorg Wyss and Mark Walter – and Eghbali can continue working together in the long-term. Eghbali is understood to have become the major player behind the scenes at Chelsea, but Jordan has hinted that he is willing to advise Boehly.
Speaking to Jim White on talkSPORT, Jordan suggested that his experience of owning Palace between 2000 and 2010 could make him useful to Boehly, who he has met previously. “Not involved with them commercially, involved with them to have discussions,” Jordan said when asked if he would get involved at Chelsea.
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"Because they like some of the things that have been written, they pay attention to some of the things that I've said about them. That doesn't give me any cachet or kudos, it's just an observation."
Asked whether he would speak to the Chelsea pair, Jordan added: “Yes and no, just out of maudlin interest. In the same way that I was motivated to sit talking to Boehly in Qatar, because these guys are influential people. Whilst I consider it to be a manufactured football club, much to the irritation of Chelsea fans, it is a big football club now, in terms of the scale that Roman Abramovich gave it, so it's interesting.”
He added: “I don't know the personalities. I spent a bit of time with Todd, I don't know Eghbali, various people I know that are representing Chelsea are working with them and there's opportunities for me to perhaps go and watch Chelsea games and get myself involved in that sort of framework if I wanted to, in terms of having discussions with these sort of guys.
Todd Boehly
Todd Boehly has fallen out with Behdad Eghbali (Image: Getty Images)
"But I've always believed that the Chelsea project is a very interesting one, it's a very different one. All the criticism that's been laid at the door of Boehly about the decisions that he's made, have been made by people that don't have the understanding of what great wealth does.
"It has a time to build things, and we live in a micromanaged world where the next game counts, if you lose the next game, you're a disaster. He's not worried about that."
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