Why Mauricio Pochettino is Chelsea's ideal managerial candidate
Todd Boehly's first season at the helm of Chelsea Football Club could hardly have been more disastrous. The Blues headed into the summer of 2022 as the reigning club world champions. They'd experienced a dip in form at the back end of last season, but given the sanctions the club were under, that was at least understandable. In Thomas Tuchel, Boehly had one of the best and most tactically flexible head coaches in world Football to help steer his vision, with the American tycoon appointing himself as the interim sporting director for his first transfer window. Perhaps the alarm bells should have been ringing when Tuchel had to talk Boehly out of an ill-advised move for Cristiano Ronaldo. The summer of Boehly saw Chelsea spend a world record £271.1m on transfers. Tuchel was inexplicably fired one week after the window closed. A strange decision, sure, but not one without reason (even if the reason isn't a particularly good one). In American sports, the owners of new franchis...