Last summer, when Todd Boehly took out his bookshelf and took charge of Chelsea’s new ownership, he watched hundreds of football games. It was a sport that until then had not interested him much. But, of course, it was necessary to be aware of such a high investment. By studying the games, he intended not only to catch up on football, but also to see if, in his opinion, it could be as predictable as baseball (he also co-owns the MLB Dodgers). Well, yesterday when he finished lunch between directives, Boehly saw a Sky Sports microphone and dared to make a prediction. He was not diplomatic or measured. Rather the opposite. Suddenly he shouted: “We will win 3-0”. His phrase reminded me of what the then president of Real Madrid, Vicente Boluda, said one day, when he assured that the whites were going to “Liverpool. It was another Madrid, much less reliable than this one in the Champions League, and what ended up being humiliated was the white team.
Last night Boehly’s soothsaying skills went to waste with barely twenty minutes of play. If he had put money in bets he had just lost it just as Benzema opened the scoring.
Although it won’t be for tickets. This season, Chelsea has already spent almost 700 million euros. Boehly continues to try roulette, which before, with Roman Abramovich at the helm, was Russian and now has a US patent. He goes for the third manager of the season and navigates in no man’s land in the Premier League. Nonsense even though he still has the comeback attempt in the continental return at Stamford Bridge. The last cartridge for Chelsea and for an owner who in the jargon of the sport of the United States, which he undoubtedly knows better, should be described as a rookie. But not the best.
