Chelsea majority stakeholder Clearlake Capital have ‘no intention’ of selling up following a report claiming they were ‘exploring the possibility’.
The private equity firm was a part of an investor consortium named BlueCo that purchased the west London outfit from Roman Abramovich for £2.5 billion in 2022.
As part of the deal, they also committed a further £1.75bn for investing in the club, while £1.5bn has been spent on new signings.
Clearlake, who are owned by Chelsea co-owners Behdad Eghbali and Jose E Feliciano, possess 61.5 percent of the shares, with the remaining 38.5 percent is split equally between Todd Boehly, Hansjorg Wyss and Mark Walter.
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Bloomberg claimed this week that the club’s main shareholders were looking into possibly buying each other out. However, The Telegraph report that Clearlake “would only be open to increasing their stake” in the Premier League club.
There have been ‘no talks’ between Clearlake, Boehly or any of Chelsea’s other investors about the possibility of selling shares ‘at this stage’.
There is said to be ‘no prospect’ of Clearlake selling their stake in the Blues and are committed to the project for the next ‘decade or longer’.
It’s been reported that the relationship between Eghbali and Boehly has deteriorated over the past two years, but remains ‘professional’.
