The Global Sports Playbook

We sit down with an owner transforming three of the world’s most storied sports teams.
Todd L. Boehly, Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO, Eldridge Industries speaks with Jason Kelly, Chief Correspondent, Bloomberg Originals at the 2024 Qatar Economic Forum, Powered by Bloomberg.
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[@stickyicky33]

"lil football club called Chelsea" is the most American thing you can hear

[@milbucks226]

It's a joke

[@RoyalBlue292]

Todds First answer "we need to be patient when building" two days when season ends Poch is booted 😂

[@charlieallan5318]

There’s a difference between booted and mutal consent…

[@scorpian5311]

Lil football club🤨?? You better check yourself. There is nothing little about my Chelsea.

[@1derekwinter1]

Unbelievable….Bloody Yanks. Cant stand them. Wish he’d fcuk off!

[@lesleyhaneb5788]

Don't worry the man does not know,

[@hashshashiinme7656]

Don't worry Chelsea are no THAT big either so it fits well 😅

[@borllin1]

The joke just went over your head. Guess they don't teach sarcasm in Africa

[@scorpian5311]

@@borllin1 I ddnt take well to the sarcasm, hence my response to it. And leave Africa out of this, clearly you clueless about Africa.

[@jamesnicolaou9616]

Imagine if you had someone who actually understood football, the world game interviewing the great man Todd…

[@axellukaszekdocarmo8201]

very interesting, doing my bsc paper on chelsea amortisation strategy and its implications on the world of sport , very insightful

[@filosofastone1442]

This is a real business man. I learnt a lot. - Thank God I am not English otherwise I would be cynical and myopic

[@CFC_44]

You better not go crazy on ticket prices!

[@Dany-wp5zu]

His american they think about money

[@tikemyson5627]

"how do you get direct relationships with your fan base" by winning mate

[@user-yi7ij7tg4u]

First thing that guy said wrong was ‘The lil football club called Chelsea’ Go read your books man @chelsea IS one OF THE WORLDS BEST Football Club.

[@rogerchanda]

This genius is about to change the complexion of soccer business. I am impressed with his strategy and resolve

[@stevenmichaels4947]

Meatloaf Boehly! 😂

[@tikemyson5627]

I will do anything for pound notes

[@865889]

He keeps talking at business conferences. Why not explaining his plans at BBC or Sky Sport for a change? Also, a smile once in a while would get him some more positive opinions

[@cuvaolanrewaju2958]

Positive opinions? 😂 what has your negative opinion done to his life or Chelsea’s y’all rate yourself so much 😭

[@dumebimalogo5041]

He does not owe Sky or BBC a sit down. He owna the club. He can choose to speak through whichever forum he wants. As far as the message comes through we are all fine. What is the difference if he speaks through Sky or BBC?

[@lesleyhaneb5788]

Lions don't explain themselves to sheep😊

[@Shdhd2347]

He don’t owe sky bbc or any British media an interview? All they’ve done since he bought us is twist his words and spread a nasty narrative

[@cfc-prototype1200]

This brudda called Chelsea a lil club , what is he on?

[@O_G7]

sesko's value is skyrocketing rn

[@DevLifeUnplugged]

So we all gonna ignore the fact this guy just called the best club in London a little football club🤨

[@maxwellndhlovu8169]

Learn some English please, that's a metaphor

[@OSKAMIZE_GAMING]

😂😂😂 I was shocked 😂

[@SuperYtc1]

I didn't hear him mention Arsenal.

[@mpkrprsnt]

Do fuck all, dont you dare sell Conor or Chalobah

[@patricusmaketa963]

I feel kinda secured by him being our Owner..he seems very competent and has a clear present and future vision for the Biz

[@tfuen]

Not only that but he’s a savvy businessman as we have already seen with sales inside his financial group. Him and many other investors formed the team that invested in Chelsea, BlueCo. All investors in that group if my understanding is correct have the ability to maneuver about and use their money collectively. Ya times have been tough these last 2 years, but I honestly think in a few years with sponsors (rumors to be moving to Jordan) we Chelsea can be atop the game again! Like he said businesses are starting to see now’s the time to buy in, and with that comes boatloads of money to be used and shares amongst the investors and the team as a whole. I’m excited for the future, and like you said he seems to have a good understanding and comfortableness about the future

[@SuperYtc1]

People like you are exactly how idiots like Todd Boehly land themselves in money. You're judging him by his look and how he says things, rather than his actual intelligence. Todd Boehly is a retard, and he will continue to ruin Chelsea.

[@Dany-wp5zu]

​@@SuperYtc1yeah, how believes in this guy. Also his american

[@ln10i56]

I would do anything for pound notes experience we aint buying that 🎶🎶🎶

[@JJT303]

UTC! 💙

[@MangaliAbdulsalaam-xg4vd]

He's the man to take us right 4get the past

[@Bwijaya2301]

Boehling

[@Head_of_the_Table2.0]

"Little football club "what??😂😂😂

[@JJ-cy3yq]

“Give us time” - 2 years into a massively underperforming billion pound spent project

[@tikemyson5627]

I WILL DOOO ANYYYTHING FOR POUND NOTES

[@hnaku8748]

Time merchants need to give time not only to the manager, but also to the directors and the custodians. Be fair with it. I personally think there was not too much wrong with the past model. It needed a tweaking, not a full scale revolution. We've lost our identity of 'winning' now and it's not always easy to get that back(Arsenal, Liverpool, United etc. all have struggled getting it back past couple of decades). Anyway, the changes are done. Things could still come good but we made it unnecessarily hard for no reason. Consistent top 4 without winning was seen as a failure once, but it's somehow seen as a massive success now. Standards have dropped. We're entering the 3rd season under the new regime, we need to be back up competing and actually winning (like major domestic and European trophies).

[@curtarnolds]

The previous regime was running a consistent loss. This regime cannot afford to do that. So they really know what they are doing. They will make money and pay the players less, while the players would end up making their money through sponsorships

[@hnaku8748]

@@curtarnolds FFP has been here since 2015, was in plans since 2009. Fans have been gaslighted into thinking it is new. How Chelsea were ran was okay. Won a trophy every other season, that's consistency. Roman was a football fan, the new group are private equity. Not beneficial for the club if the made money goes into their pockets instead of the club.

[@curtarnolds]

@@hnaku8748 what are you talking about? Roman was consistently financing the club with his own money so we running at a loss. Clearlake is people's money, you can't just waste it cos you're winning trophies. We were one of the few clubs who were being run that way. Man Utd spends but they get more than enough as revenue. We didn't have that

[@hnaku8748]

@@curtarnolds FFP does allow certain limit of financing from the custodians, it's not against the rules. I don't think you've understood. UEFA one has a 3 year accounting period, which came into effect since 2015. If we were not run within limits then we would have already been charged couple of times. But we haven't been. P&S rules are more lenient. We were fine by all means. We're still comfortably top 5-6 in revenue. Revenue will decrease a bit as we're not in the UCL. We've won major things in past despite not having the highest revenue.

[@tikemyson5627]

​@@curtarnolds they should never have bought the club then they should of bought Brighton and let Saudis buy Chelsea and tbh they can't even get business right can't even get good sponsorships

[@mrgzola25]

Little football club!!!!

[@Jacko9TV]

he also did that so that 68 million wont get killed by california taxes lmaoooo

[@jimbell122]

Meatloaf bohley up the minerals fc

[@tamir70s]

#BoehlyOut asap

[@tysonngubeni8545]

Always these business forums. Never more direct or "accessible" engagements with Chelsea fans. Especially the key London-based fanbase. Poor form from the ownership group.

[@QWERT12348330]

Did he say little football club???

[@DJ_AiEl]

Is the sarcasm not obvious?

[@benny7555]

It's American sarcasm calm down lol

[@DesmondKobinah]

❤

[@generellting8694]

Lil football club check your facts boy

[@skhulilebuthelezi2365]

As a Chelsea fan, I wish Todd and his friends had not bought Chelsea. The club is a mess.

[@mustaphaage395]

TDB is possibly the best thing that happened to Chelsea we just don't know it yet

[@kwesitawiah3761]

You call Chelsea a little football club......?

[@alexalexic392]

He made so many mistakes in Chelsea from day one. Getting rid of all people of old regime at once and bringing the new one. Surely, if you don't know anything about the business that you are getting into, you give a time to learn from people who won everything, and then you bring your own people and ideas. After one month in charge of CFC, Boehly gets rid of Tuchel, bringing Potter and Chelsea season is over. The next thing he is connecting with all these bad European players agents and clubs who are exploring his wealth and inexperience in the football business, and he is massively overpaying so many average players. He spent £1 billion on players still didn't buy proper striker, Cole Palmer saved his arse. Now, he is facing points deduction unless he sells £100 million worth of players by the 30th of June 2024. Because of bad defensive signings, Poch can not fix goal leaking defence, and that is going to be his biggest challenge in the summer. Overall, Boehly put CFC 10 years backwards, and I can not see any Premiership challenge for the next 5 years..

[@Shdhd2347]

All the old regime got let go because of all the dodgy dealings Roman did. Brilliant owner but he did a lot of illegal things

[@tfuen]

We aren’t facing point deductions anymore, we broke even on ffp via inner property sales

[@Dany-wp5zu]

​@@Shdhd2347he did it for the team. Did you think Abramovich give a dam about money?

[@duwaynem.467]

A little football club?? He called the most successful English club of the 21st century a "little club".... wow...

[@cfclazio621]

Boehly and co didn't become billionaires by being stupid so trust the process and see Chelsea fc men and women go up, up, up !

[@Dany-wp5zu]

His giving good players to Arabs

[@maleselamolepo6475]

Rich coming from him!! 😡

[@MALIK19554]

Did he just said this little football club

[@jayjames4766]

Little football club??????

[@naval-nation2259]

Yhh they have stability with EXPERIENCE not just young players.

[@SugarRayOPrey]

We’ve gone from someone who’s main priority is to win and be successful to someone who wants to make as much money as possible at the expense of the club. Ruined.

[@stevenmichaels4947]

It's an American thing! 😂

[@TheIherbert]

Don't think you fully understand the conversation mate

[@jonathondefreitas]

little football club ????, boehly aint even correct him. i know roman would have corrected him

[@inticfc7734]

Sack pochettinho

[@gabrielarmstrong1887]

please sell my football club

[@eromoseleodia3943]

Did that silly presenter really just call cfc a little football club?

[@mrg1490]

I'm pretty sure he was being sarcastic

[@robertwatts1587]

I think he was doing it for comedic purposes like saying the little fact of winning the champions league or something like that rather than actually calling chelsea a little club.

[@Dany-wp5zu]

​@@mrg1490no, he was being American

[@ang5491]

excuse me? "this little football club"?

[@naval-nation2259]

Its called premier league not premare league mate

[@quincyryogaming7658]

Lil club ?? Do u think baseball, basketball is more popular sport than football/soccer?? I hope you don't take Chelsea with you when you go bankrupt one day

[@Blessing100]

The interviewer is arrogant...calling Chelsea 'lil '...can i say ; i don't understand what's going through him 'lil' mind?

[@bl4k3r]

The truth is: you fucked up our football club. It was already good. It was on great foundations before you blew it up.

[@advitiyasharma9420]

Great uno 😂😂😂😂

[@dennisngugi1102]

That was Putin don't be stupid

[@Shdhd2347]

Great lmao, we won a ucl and bought in lukaku and saul that’s not great foundations

[@bl4k3r]

@@Shdhd2347 foundations are the background staff that’s works on transfers and off field matters. we are still reaping rewards from past deals like Hazard to RMD. We can’t say the same for the current owners that have to sell the Chelsea property assets to balance the books for PSR and FFP. On field we have a good foundations. Saul, was a loan, that doesn’t matter. Lukaku didn’t work out under Tuchel. But we had Kante, Rudiger, Kovavic, Ziyech, Havzerts, Werner, James, Chilwell, Mount - same team that won the UCL. The team that was top of the league mid season before injuries. Adding to that squad would have been wiser than blowing it up and spent 2 years “rebuilding” and hoping next year the team will be right.

[@tikemyson5627]

​@@Shdhd2347 of course there was a great foundation Roman turned Chelsea in to a house hold name could get any sponsorship any player had the best medical team in the prem great at selling players best academy in the world that's what is meant by Foundations

[@pembacotprofesional]

Bring back thomas tuchel