{"id":302043,"date":"2023-12-12T16:26:42","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T16:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/?p=302043"},"modified":"2023-12-12T16:26:42","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T16:26:42","slug":"todd-boehly-is-like-a-rich-drunk-guy-at-an-auction-says-sutton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/soccer\/todd-boehly-is-like-a-rich-drunk-guy-at-an-auction-says-sutton\/","title":{"rendered":"Todd Boehly is &apos;like a rich drunk guy at an auction&apos;, says Sutton"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1> Todd Boehly is like a &#8216;rich drunk guy at a sporting dinner buying all the memorabilia&#8217; after spending \u00a31billion on players, says Chris Sutton on It&#8217;s All Kicking Off&#8230; the Chelsea owner &#8216;is playing Championship manager!&#8217;<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Todd Boehly has spent over \u00a31billion in just three transfer windows since arriving<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>But Blues manager Mauricio Pochettino is calling for more signings in January\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Chelsea are WRETCHED without the ball and you haven\u2019t got a clue what team will turn up every week &#8211; Listen to It&#8217;s All Kicking Off\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Chelsea owner Todd Boehly is like a &#8216;rich drunk guy at a sporting dinner who buys all the memorabilia&#8217;, Chris Sutton has told Mail Sport&#8217;s It&#8217;s All Kicking Off podcast.<\/p>\n<p>Mauricio Pochettino&#8217;s side crashed to a 2-0 defeat at Everton on Sunday, hot off the heels of losses to Newcastle and Manchester United in recent weeks, to leave them a lowly 12th in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s despite American owner Boehly spending over \u00a31billion on new players in three transfer windows since he bought the club last year.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea&#8217;s bloated and disparate side are no closer to looking like a coherent team under Pochettino, who, remarkably, is calling for squad additions in January as he tries to turn things around.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to that, Sutton said: &#8216;That is pretty alarming. Pochettino nailing those colours to his mast that he needs more players in at this point in time.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/11\/15\/78826223-12850821-image-a-92_1702308852688.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Chelsea slumped to another miserable defeat on Sunday, going down 2-0 against Everton<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/11\/15\/78826225-12850821-image-a-93_1702308876772.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Owner Todd Boehly has spent over \u00a31billion on new signings in just three transfer windows\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/11\/15\/78826227-12850821-image-a-94_1702308894665.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>But Chelsea coach Mauricio Pochettino is already calling for new signings in January<\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;They have been so odd this season. I think in many ways Pochettino has been getting away with it but you look at where they are in the league &#8211; they&#8217;re the sixth best team in London.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Think about that, when was the last time Chelsea were the sixth best team in London?<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;With the spend and it not coming together, I don&#8217;t know whether the pressure is on or not but they can&#8217;t keep tip-toeing through the season and people not putting them under scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;In their recent past, they have been serial winners, huge winners, won all the big trophies in the last 20 years in the Abramovich era.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Last year was disappointing and now people forget where Chelsea have been getting away with it this season &#8211; no European football, and that is a massive advantage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;How do you judge a manager fairly? On whether they are improving the team &#8211; and have they improved that much.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The one thing with Chelsea and the one thing they all have in common is that the owner has forced these players upon them and sort of said, &#8220;well, you&#8217;ll have to make the most of that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;d compare Todd Boehly, in terms of the players bought in, to a rich drunk guys at a sporting dinner who buys all the memorabilia.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/11\/15\/78826211-12850821-Mail_Sport_s_Chris_Sutton_compared_Boehly_to_a_drunk_rich_guy_bi-a-97_1702308948991.jpg\" height=\"433\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Mail Sport&#8217;s Chris Sutton compared Boehly to a &#8216;drunk rich guy bidding on sports memorabilia&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/11\/15\/78819621-12850821-It_was_another_game_to_forget_as_Chelsea_slumped_to_a_2_0_defeat-a-98_1702309010670.jpg\" height=\"448\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>It was another game to forget as Chelsea slumped to a 2-0 defeat at Goodison Park on Sunday<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He wakes up the next morning and thought &#8220;I&#8217;ve bought all these things and don&#8217;t know what to do with them.&#8221;&#8216;<\/p>\n<p>Sutton, speaking to Mail Sport&#8217;s football editor Ian Ladyman on the bi-weekly show, added: &#8216;Pochettino is in place now to get the best out of this team and he is not doing it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s a bit like Championship Manager. It was never going to be easy for Pochettino but it&#8217;s fair to say now we&#8217;re putting the boot into Manchester United and talking about their inconsistency, Chelsea have been so, so disappointing.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The Blues are at home to Sheffield United on Saturday in a game they can ill-afford to drop more points in.<\/p>\n<h3>IT&#8217;S ALL KICKING OFF!\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p><span><span>It&#8217;s All Kicking Off is an exciting new podcast from Mail Sport that promises a different take on Premier League football.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>It is available on MailOnline, Mail+, YouTube, Apple Music and Spotify.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2017\/08\/02\/636x90_facebook_ad_sport.png\" width=\"636\" height=\"90\"><br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12850821\/Todd-Boehly-Chelsea-owner-playing-Championship-manager.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Todd Boehly is like a &#8216;rich drunk guy at a sporting dinner buying all the memorabilia&#8217; 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