Chelsea’s new owners hope to build up a multi-club network around the club.
Chelsea co-owner Behdad Eghbali believes the club would profit from executing a multi-club plan.
Inspired by Red Bull’s achievements with RB Leipzig and RB Salzburg, Todd Boehly and his fellow co-owners have already started their efforts to build a multi-club system around Chelsea.
New staff from Brighton and Red Bull have arrived at the club to lay the foundation for the new management plans.
Speaking at SporticoLive’s Invest in Sports summit, Eghbali named three benefits of the multi-club model.
“I think three different reasons for it,” Eghbali said. “One, if done well you can make money on each specific enterprise.
“Two, if done right, if you use data, if you’re thoughtful about this global market for talent and access of talent that is not effectively done through a draft or an extensive college or baseball farm system which I would attribute as a multi-club model. You can capture, acquire, retain, sign talent and monetise talent. There’s a talent arbitrage opportunity that exists.
“Three, it’s the perfect pathway of developing talent whereby you don’t have to spend crazy money on payroll. There are teams in the Premier League that spend 10% of what the top five or six teams spend on payroll.
“We hired a coach from Brighton and we think they’re one of the best-run teams in the Premier League. The owner is from a sport gaming, data background. Spends 10% of the payroll, wins almost as much and is a very stable mid-market, mid-table, very profitable club.”
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