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talkSPORT’s Simon Jordan has revealed his ‘maudlin interest’ in talks with the Chelsea ownership.
A consortium led by American businessman Todd Boehly and private equity firm Clearlake Capital bought the Blues for £4.25billion in 2022.
Club chairman Boehly shares an equal split of 38.5 per cent ownership with Hansjorg Wyss and Mark Walter, whilst Clearlake owns the rest.
Behdad Eghbali, a co-founder of the United States-based firm, is said to have been running the day-to-day operations at Chelsea.
talkSPORT reported in September that tensions between him and Boehly have become increasingly strained over how the club is run.
“If they fall out to such a point, he [Boehly] will lose, because Clearlake and Eghbali have got more money than him, and that will find its way to the surface,” he said on White and Jordan.
“But whether they have diverging agendas or converging agendas, there’s always going to be differences of opinion.
“It’s not about having differences of opinion, it’s about how you react to them. It’s if you become entranced in ideologies or the principle of who is at the front of the queue.
“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.”
“Would you be motivated to have a chat with these guys?” Jim White questioned his talkSPORT colleague.
After a slight hesitation, Jordan responded: “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.
“Chelsea’s a… whilst I consider it to be a manufactured football club, much to the irritation of Chelsea fans, is a big football club now, in terms of the scale that Roman Abramovich gave it, so it’s interesting.”
