Inside the £534m deal agreed by Chelsea’s Todd Boehly in LA last year that broke Lionel Messi record

Todd Boehly, now a household name in England for his lavish spending at Chelsea, has long been known for similar extravagance in the United States. In 2022, Boehly became the public face of the consortium that bought Chelsea for £2.5bn and brought the curtain down on the Roman Abramovich era. The American private equity billionaire enjoys an outsized influence at Stamford Bridge despite holding a significantly smaller stake than Behdad Eghbali‘s Clearlake Capital. The power dynamic has been exposed in recent weeks after it emerged that Boehly and Eghbali are now leading factions vying for cont…

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