Chelsea have spent more than £1.2billion on new people since Todd Boehley's acquisition
Only time will tell whether Chelsea's subsequent transfer business is as reckless as it appears on the surface or whether it is all a part of a comprehensive strategy.
More than £1.2 billion has been spent on fresh participants since Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital completed their acquisition of the team in May 2022. A full of 40 people have come in, usually signing deals that run for seven or more times, while a deeper 38 people have departed.
Followers and pundits have questioned the rationale of the club operating with a sizable club while watching a number of former club favorites, including Conor Gallagher, left.
Boehly was operating as Chelsea's having producer when the team's spending spree began and a scarcely believable reported details has emerged regarding his negotiation style, which, if correct, cost the team a seven-figure sum and dented his reputation.
A statement from ESPN says that an adviser who dealt with Boehly recalls an earlier offer he was doing with the American, who rang him to check over the asking price of one of his people. Boehly was quoted £12million, and soon after that he contracted the representative once, offering £14million.
When the unnamed agent asked why he did n't offer £13million as a logical next step, Boehly replied that the number 13 was unlucky. This change, the statement adds, meant that Chelsea's contemporaries ' immediately formed a bad view' of the new program.
If true, this tale would n't be the first instance of a football club owner letting superstition getting the better of them.
Cardiff City owner Vincent Tan unhappy fans by changing the club's principal colour from their traditional azure to his happy colour of purple in 2012, before a U-turn followed three years later, while former Leeds United chairman Massimo Cellino has more foibles than you can shake the proverbial stick at, with the colour purple and the number 17 his chief bugbears.
He believed that telling fans to turn up wearing his "unlucky" color purple, while at Cagliari, would prove to be the only way to end a losing run, assuming one negative would overshadow the other. Due to his apprehension about the number, he also requested that every seat number 17 be changed to 16B, and that players be prevented from using 17 as a squad number.
The legend goes that he told his former head coach Dave Hockaday not to select goalkeeper Paddy Kenny because his birthday falls on May 17 and he was at Leeds.
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