🇫🇷 Strasbourg fans were right to be fearful of Todd Boehly and Chelsea
The French Ligue 1 club is finding out about the pitfalls of multi-club ownership!
It’s not just English football Todd Boehly has tried - and largely failed - to get to grips with.
Indeed, the American businessman has also struggled in French football as the figurehead of a consortium that bought RC Strasbourg last summer.
While Chelsea, however, have spent their way into a hole under Boehly’s control, Strasbourg have suffered in a different way.
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Founded 118 years ago, the club in eastern France has a long and storied history.
That history includes a Ligue 1 title triumph in 1979 and seven domestic cups win - the most recent coming in the 2018/19 Coupe de la Ligue.
Strasbourg are one of just six clubs to have won all three major trophies in French football.
Now, though, Les Alsaciens exist to serve Chelsea in a multi-club network - and their fans aren’t happy about it.Â
Inadvertently, Boehly and the BlueCo consortium that owns Strasbourg have blundered their way into a situation that encapsulates football’s latest existential conundrum.Â
