Former Crystal Palace owner Simon Jordan has hinted at a potential advisory role with Todd Boehly's Chelsea. Since Boehly became the public face of the £4.25billion takeover of Chelsea in May 2022, he has been a constant fixture in the media spotlight and has experienced friction with other shareholders.
Boehly, alongside Clearlake co-founder Behdad Eghbali – who holds a 61.5 per cent share of the club – have reportedly clashed over internal decision-making. Rumours swirled that both parties were interested in buying each other out, especially when tensions peaked earlier in the 2024/25 season, leading to an 'untenable' atmosphere.
Although the situation has simmered down, the long-term partnership between Boehly – who owns a 13 per cent stake, equal to that of businessmen Hansjorg Wyss and Mark Walter – and Eghbali seems questionable. Despite Eghbali's growing influence at Chelsea, Jordan has indicated his openness to offer guidance to Boehly.
On [talkSPORT](https://talksport.com/football/3058242/simon-jordan-talks-chelsea-owners-todd-boehly/) with Jim White, Jordan alluded to his decade-long tenure at the helm of Palace as valuable experience that could benefit Boehly, whom he has met before. "Not involved with them commercially, involved with them to have discussions,” Jordan said when asked if he would get involved at Chelsea.
"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.
"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."