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Gab and Juls: Understanding Chelsea's civil war

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Sports, Soccer

4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Gab Marcotti and Julien Laurens break down the feud forming behind the scenes at Stamford Bridge between Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital. The guys also discuss Italy's 3-1 win over France in the Nations League, Lee Carsley's England debut and show respect to Cristiano Ronaldo's 901st career goal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm GAB, he's Jules, great skies over West London.

0:09.2

Grace guys as we were brainstorming for the show as well Jules because I'm going to do Italy

0:15.1

France as our main segment you're like oh no that's too painful no just kidding

0:18.5

don't rightly we will deal with that and quick hits later on but that was all the way back on Friday so

0:23.3

I'm just saying a little bit different driven by the news of the the Bloomberg

0:27.4

story it's about Chelsea and it's about the tension between two of the lead

0:33.5

owners, Bayhatic Bali and Tom Boli.

0:36.3

Now, but I want to broaden this out because it was like,

0:41.7

Boring Chelsea and we know like, like you know it's a freak show whatever

0:44.9

So well mention that but also I want to ask a question of how do we want our club's run because I think

0:49.6

Football has changed I it does my head in every time some Muppet pops up and says,

0:55.8

oh, look, oh, we have a rich owner,

0:58.2

like how rich is he?

0:59.4

Do we have money?

1:00.3

No, this is not how football works anymore.

1:02.4

And it hasn't worked this way in a long

1:04.7

long time okay so the story on Friday is basically for those you don't know there's a

1:08.8

company called Clear Lake which two of its principles are Jose Feliciano and Beydig Bali, they have 61.5% of Chelsea.

1:18.0

Yeah, the Investment Fund.

1:19.0

They are, yeah, they're an investment fund.

1:21.0

I know exactly how they define themselves, but that's as good a term as any

1:24.9

The rest the other Chelsea shares

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