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Chelsea chairman Todd Boehly and director Mark Walter have agreed to sell their 25 per cent stake in the club to majority shareholders Clearlake Capital in a deal which values Chelsea at £5bn.
The deal paves the way for Clearlake to take full control of Chelsea, owning 86.5 per cent of the club, with Swiss billionaire Hansjorg Wyss owning 13.5 per cent.
Boehly was the face of the consortium which
Chelsea chairman Todd Boehly and director Mark Walter have sold their stakes in the club to majority owner Clearlake Capital.
Swiss billionaire Hansjorg Wyss has also sold his stake, meaning Clearlake – led by co-founders Behdad Eghbali and Jose E. Feliciano – have now acquired full control of the club.
Boehly, Walter and Wyss each had a 12.8% stake, with Clearlake previously owning 61.5% of the Blues.
American Boehly will
That level of money would go a long way to helping Bristol City and Lansdown’s ambition to try to reach the Championship play-offs at the end of this season.
Lansdown, who made his fortune founding the finance firm Hargreaves Lansdown, took over as Bristol City chairman in 2002 having already been majority shareholder.
He went on to take control of Bristol Rugby in 2012 having funded the club for a
Liverpool’s owners have agreed to sell around a third of the club to a consortium including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
The deal will see Bezos participate in an investor group of a syndicate which is led by Amit Bhatia, the son-in-law of steel billionaire Lakshmi Mittal and until recently a shareholder in Championship club Queens Park Rangers.
The deal installs some of world’s wealthiest individuals as co-owners of the Reds,
FSG originally made clear in 2022 that it would be open to new investment in Liverpool, either from minority shareholders or a potential full sale.
It said at the time: “FSG has frequently received expressions of interest from third parties seeking to become shareholders in Liverpool.
“FSG has said before that under the right terms and conditions, we would consider new shareholders if it was in the best
Portsmouth did not have to sell forward Callum Lang in the January transfer window, according to boss John Mousinho.
Preston North End signed the 27-year-old for a club record undisclosed fee on deadline day but Mousinho says Lang’s sale was not out of necessity in order to balance the books.
The move means Liverpool-born Lang returns to the north west having signed for Pompey from Wigan Athletic in January 2024.
Kogan met with representatives from 110 clubs to lay out the remit of the regulator on Wednesday and insisted it was a “proactive meeting” with a “high level of engagement” from the National League to the Premier League.
“It’s a job that’s actually really important, because if we get it wrong, if the world of football gets it wrong, the extraordinary progress that’s been made necessary will vanish incredibly quickly,”
Crystal Palace part-owner John Textor has signed an agreement to sell his stake in the club to New York Jets owner Woody Johnson, sources close to the deal have confirmed.
The deal, believed to be worth close to £190m, is subject to Premier League approval.
It remains to be seen whether the deal boosts Palace’s fight to be cleared to play in European football next season.
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