It’d be a weird one. The Qatari government can pay him more, he’ll win the league 9 out of every 10 tries and PSG finally seem like they’ve figured out how to sign midfielders. Maybe if they win the CL this year? He could demand even more autonomy from Chelsea but I think their new owner really craves the spotlight. He wants to be seen doing things, making decisions and taking credit. I don’t think that guy grants total autonomy to anyone.
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All of Boehly’s recruitment decisions come across like a guy who just started googling “best sporting directors football” and “best left backs premier league” last May and went with it.
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I personally think he googled most handsome left backs but I may be a bit biased.
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Think Boehly will end up buying another team sooner than later.
Ffs bring Roman back, this guy actually has a business plan and wants to build a structure. Roman just had money and a happy trigger finger.
Apparently boehly is looking at the Salzburg DoF to join as well.
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We can hope that it takes them time to put that structure in place. And it’s not that dissimilar from what they did with their “loan army”. They sent guys to Vitesse all the time iirc but it wasn’t a formalized feeder club or member club.
I do think it’s absolutely absurd that you can have situations like CFG or Red Bull owning multiple clubs across leagues and trade players through the system. I’m just not sure you can do anything about it without running into legal issues.
Edit: Just saw these quotes.
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Why is Klopp being so salty?
Sure it’s not the best plan, but I don’t think anyone attempting to come up with ideas to help grassroots football should be ridiculed.
They should be ridiculed when they are so obviously self serving and questionable as this one.
He said “fund the pyramid”, presumably in his view with those at the top getting the most.
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Doesn’t matter, that will always be the case in football.
Many teams further down the pyramid are struggling and just a tiny slice of that money would help massively.
Aren’t many (if any) selfless football club owners. But if their selfish ideas help those lower down then I’m not going to complain.
It won’t help them much. Maybe to reach an extra weeks wages or whatever if they are really struggling but smaller clubs will never survive because of handouts and even if it did raise 200m, which it won’t, by the time you get to a conference team the amount they’ll end up with is practically nothing.
The last thing elite level football needs is more games.
Strikes me as a bit dodgy that you can own two football teams.
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There is a very good reason yet another rich American businessman has bought a PL club and we all know what that is.
As for the ridiculous idea of a north v south competiton, what’s he going to call it?
The Todd Boehly Trophy perhaps?
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I agree. £200m wont even touch the sides. By the time it gets to the non professional clubs, it’ll be pennies on the pound
Surely the only way is to invest in youth clubs, sports initiatives and make sure things like football pitches aren’t shut down because of a lack of funding. Because any money you put into football is always going to get sucked back up to the PL.
Just agree to give lower league sides a bigger slice of the existing revenues top level football makes and skip out on the stupid extra match I reckon.
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Yes, that’s why I said it’s not the best idea.
But, still, anyone coming up with ideas to make money for smaller teams shouldn’t be laughed at.
Really, the FA should be doing more. But they’re not.
And I’ve said why I don’t agree with that. 
I really don’t think Todd Boehly is that interested in helping grass roots football.
It’s unlikely he sits in his mansion looking through a collection of old Isthmian League programmes.
He has bought Chelsea to make money for himself, not for giving financial support to struggling lower league clubs.
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Yeah you think it’s selfish intentions. But clubs on brink of collapse don’t care if the intentions are selfish, they just need cash injections.
Unless you have loads of better ideas to help the clubs?
I get why people want to criticise the idea. But that doesn’t change the fact that more money needs to filter down. So if not that idea then we need more ideas. And I don’t see anyone else coming up with them? People just standing there laughing at Boehly instead. Basically I just don’t think there was any reason for Klopp to be a prick about it.