Tag: Todd

17 September 2026 Off

Chelsea: Todd Boehly and fellow co-owner Mark Walter to sell stakes in Premier League club | Football News

By Total Football News

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

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17 September 2026 Off

Chelsea: Clearlake Capital acquires full control as Todd Boehly, Mark Walter and Hansjorg Wyss sell stakes

By Total Football News

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

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17 August 2026 Off

Chelsea co-owners Todd Boehly and Mark Walter hold talks over selling shares to majority owners Clearlake Capital | Football News

By Total Football News

Todd Boehly and Mark Walter have held talks about selling their shares in Chelsea to Clearlake Capital.

Clearlake currently owns 61.5 per cent of the club, while Boehly, Walter and Hansjorg Wyss each own a 12.8 per cent stake.

Clearlake, under the leadership of Behdad Eghbali and Jose Feliciano, effectively run the club even though Boehly is the chairman.

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5 April 2026 Off

Birmingham City 0-1 Blackburn Rovers: Todd Cantwell secures vital win for visitors

By Total Football News

Blackburn Rovers manager Michael O’Neill told BBC Radio Lancashire:

“I’m exhausted a little bit to be honest. It was one of those games, especially with seven additional minutes, where we put everything into the game.

“We had said to the players, we had to show that we wanted it more than the opposition, given the league position of the two teams.

We had to frustrate them at times, which we

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6 December 2024 Off

Todd Cantwell: Blackburn Rovers player reflects on Rangers exit

By Total Football News

“I thrived in the environment at Rangers but circumstances changed, different people were in charge and it didn’t feel right any more.

“I’m proud of myself for taking that step (the transfer request) because the younger me would probably have sat for another season, and it might have been a season that I looked back on and say I lost.”

Cantwell says he was mentally and physically below par when

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11 September 2024 Off

Chelsea ownership row: Todd Boehly & Clearlake split explained

By Total Football News

The gradual worsening of relations has been described as a “culture clash” rather than a major blow-up.

There are complaints from sources on one side that Eghbali is too involved on the football side of the operation on a day-to-day basis and needs to leave the experts to do their job.

But Clearlake insists that he only helps on the financial side of deals and allows analysts and sporting directors

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7 September 2024 Off

Chelsea co-owners Todd Boehly and Clearlake looking to buy each other out

By Total Football News

Chelsea’s co-owners are looking to buy each other out amid a rift at board level.

Chairman Todd Boehly and majority owners Clearlake Capital are both prepared to take full control of the club.

Boehly has gradually lost power despite being named co-controlling owner after the club’s purchase from Roman Abramovich for £2.5bn in July 2022, with Clearlake – which owns a 61.5% stake – in primary control at Stamford Bridge.

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6 September 2024 Off

Todd Cantwell: Blackburn Rovers midfielder says leaving Rangers was “right for my career”

By Total Football News

Blackburn Rovers midfielder Todd Cantwell has said his departure from the “goldfish bowl” at Rangers was “the right thing for me and my career”.

The 26-year-old moved to Ewood Park from the Scottish club on transfer deadline day last Friday.

He had not featured for Philippe Clement’s side this season after requesting to leave in the summer.

“I think there’s a misconception with how my time was at Rangers –

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22 August 2024 Off

Chelsea: Do owners Todd Boehly and Behdad Eghbali have plan for oversized squad?

By Total Football News

Chelsea are, to an extent, stockpiling players.

They have spent £1.5bn on young stars from across the world and built a first-team squad that does need slimming down.

There have been between 22 and 28 senior players in Maresca’s group during pre-season, and several will need to leave.

Sterling and Chilwell have been offered to clubs, Chalobah is widely known to be available for sale and talks are ongoing to

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