GAB & JULS FULL SHOW: Chelsea in TURMOIL?🔥 Time up for Deschamps and France?🇫🇷 and more! | ESPN FC

On this weeks episode of the Gab and Juls show, the guys look at the rising tension between the Chelsea hierarchy. Is Deschamps time with France over as they fall to a heavy defeat at the hands of Italy? How Jack Grealish and Declan Rice faired on their return to Ireland and all other news in the world of football.

[tsimoi]

Excited about Musiala's career 🇩🇪

[_AX]

Not an Inter fan but when will the world realize DiMarco is the best left back in the world .. He's so technically good, pacy and defensively good too..full package there but he's got no PR unlike overhyped Prem LBs

[PaulKRedd]

Too many games, too close together. The players are going to have to push back. My objection is that it decreases the quality of the football. By the time you get to the big games, 1/3 of the top players are out injured. Let's make sure we get to see MBappe against Saliba, Yamal against Guardial. I don't want to see a Champion's league semi-final decided by whose out injured.

[teddypsalmist]

I'm the first ❤❤❤😊
Somebody give me likes
I'm from KENYA 🇰🇪
Africa 🌍
Here for Chelsea 🔥

[asheni]

Gab speaks as if he's some genius, and the average football fan doesn't have any financial literacy.

[wayneshahid]

Hey Gab, don't disrespect Jamaica playing England at Wembley. The Jamaican population in the UK and across Europe is huge. So it would be a big game. Add to that Steve Mclaren coaching Jamaica would increase the media attention. So don't be so disrespectful !!!!

[douglasshedd]

Eghbali is not an owner. That is one of Boehly’s essential points. Boehly has his own money invested in Chelsea. Eghbali is a representative of the Clearlake fund that was used as a makeweight investment fund to make building a multi club model easier. The Middle Eastern investors buying City, Newcastle, etc are public investment funds for large portions of the ownership for this reason. But Eghbali is just an employee. Clearlake manages insurance accounts, public pensions, etc. So he is an employee with a contract to manage 401k’s essentially. He was never meant to step in line he was a heavyweight director of the team. Can he speak up if he feels the interests of his investors is being neglected? Sure, otherwise he might get fired by those THOUSANDS of investors. But that doesn’t change that they were there to oversee an investment for a 10 year period. They were never meant to be the “owners” of the club. I have money in 3 funds overseen by Clearlake; maybe more if my own money in Chelsea than Eghbali. That doesn’t make me an owner. Raine chose this group to buy Chelsea because they were choosing Boehly as a multi decade, long term owner with ownership experience. Chelsea cannot be owned in total by a 401k. Todd had already found someone e to replace them as an investor fund (at a large profit). Money funds are easily replaceable. Billionaire individual owners are not.

[malca]

Talking about muppets.. 2 prime time here

[nononsense]

They got bring a foreigner coach. The team is 90% foreigner and need someone who can understand the culture of the players.

[masale]

What a surprise, so called Italian Marcotti showing no love or respect to Italy.

This guy has real issues with Italian. Why the self hate? You see Juls supporting France and French clubs. Macrotti? English clubs lol

What a joke

[hoerstle]

So when men criticise the schedule because of health it's understandable, but women have to go through it because their revenue has to grow? Men's football became great during a time with LESS games per year, not more. Maybe you should make single competitions more valuable instead of making more and more competitions and therefore reducing the value of specific I mean, Fifa is going to establish two different club world cup formats....who (inside of europe) cared even for one of those? There are too many competitions competing against each other, to me it feels like a bubble that's going to burst brutally even though it might still take some time...the new club world cup could be awesome (even more fair to teams outside of europe), but why keep the annual mini version? I don't get Apologies for mixing things up, but that got .e kind of thinking....

[greengrass]

Descamps is a poor coach but it's not all on him. The French players are notoriously arrogant. Their wife men mbappe and dembele don't track back and the whole team lacks work ethic. They aren't willing to put the hard yards in.

And their biggest weakness is that there two holding midfielders are not able to get turned on the ball and make line breaking passes.

[shahedkhaddash]

It's also funny how the biggest concern it seems like is Gulf States buying clubs when Newcastle have been pretty balanced in the transfer market and City, while they can offer good wages, don't tend to overspend on players or go for 100mil superstars. They replaced Alvarez with Savinho, who other clubs were not linked with. Meanwhile Chelsea have bought practically two starting 11s & spent a crazy amount on players (kepa, enzo, lukaku, caicedo, fofanca, etc), Barca have spent $$$ on players they couldn't afford or pay, Arsenal hired a legit gangster (Raúl Sanllehí) who finessed them out of money on the Pepe deal (rumors it was more than 80mil). The truth is American ownership will change the game forever. I would not be surprised if in a few years, clubs do trades instead of transfers and more "ad breaks" or competitions are added because private equity funds want to see a return. Club owners already tried to install a no-drop league with the super league akin to American sports. When the league allowed Abramovich in, that changed things forever. After that, they couldn't say no to the UAE + they wanted to compete with La Liga. And when the Neymar transfer broke the record fee (also a Raúl Sanllehí mess), it messed up prices for a long time.

[mnemonija]

What i would like to know is at what valuation are they trying to buy each other out. How much is the chelsea worth by their accounting?

[psueddie]

The Presidential candidate financial backing requirement for Spanish membership run clubs is mandatory across the board, not Real Madrid exclusive. Barcelona have the same requirement as do Athletic Bilbao and any other socio run club.

[proviewplayr]

Idk I rather a completely new owners that care more about ⚽️ than "pure profit "

[tsimoi]

Gab always takes the sides of fifa, UEFA and other orgs because he is friends with the officials and get access to events.

[YoshiJoshi_]

In terms of Chelsea there is an interesting wrinkle that the original deal structure affords Clearlake downside protection on their investment (essentially they get their money out first). This raises a few key points:

- They lose this protection if they are 100% owners, obviously. So there is a huge negative risk shift to doing this - and it probably isn't an option they would want to go down (I would guess)
- Boehly was the driver of this deal originally and this (Clearlake + downside protection) was the best deal he could get at the time to pull the money together, in a more challenging time for raising money it would be surprising if he could raise 2.5bn+ (Clearlake would likely want a decent premium on their investment given their r/r position) on better terms than are already there

Most likely outcome is an entente and resolution of whatever strategy/backstage tensions exist. Maybe one of or both of Winstanley/Stewart move on at the end of their four window project and a more established football guy comes in to be DOF and the frontline presence at the club. Eghbali and Boehly both step back and the club tries to find some stability for long enough to have a cup of coffee

[nitinpatel]

Maturity is when u realise france won world cup because of prime pogba not that turtle mbappe, france is struggling since exit of pogba

[shahedkhaddash]

Football clubs are essentially hedge funds at this point. Sort of like how universities have become hedge funds that teach on the side.