{"id":1102128,"date":"2022-05-28T09:29:12","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T09:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/28\/chelsea-confirm-todd-boehly-takeover-to-end-abramovich-reign\/"},"modified":"2022-05-28T09:29:12","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T09:29:12","slug":"chelsea-confirm-todd-boehly-takeover-to-end-abramovich-reign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/28\/chelsea-confirm-todd-boehly-takeover-to-end-abramovich-reign\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea confirm Todd Boehly takeover to end Abramovich reign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image_2022-05-28_083308499-696x392.png\"   alt=\"Todd Boehly will become the new owner of Chelsea after the government approved a takeover deal\" title=\"Todd Boehly will become the new owner of Chelsea after the government approved a takeover deal\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Todd Boehly will become the new owner of Chelsea after the government approved a takeover deal<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Chelsea have announced they have entered into a final agreement with Todd Boehly\/Clearlake Capital consortium to sell the club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChelsea Football Club can confirm that a final and definitive agreement was entered into last night to sell the club to the Todd Boehly\/Clearlake Capital consortium,\u201d read a statement on\u00a0the club\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is expected that the transaction will be completed on Monday. The club will update further at that time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The deal will end 19 years of ownership under Roman Abramovich.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>The Russian oligarch was sanctioned following Moscow\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, because of his links with president Vladimir Putin. <\/p>\n<p>The Kremlin\u2019s decision to enter into a war with its neighbour ultimately meant Abramovich needed to sell the club to keep it alive \u2013 but only if he would not profit from it.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea have been operating under a special licence which kept the club running, but with big limitations.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"jNhrnGoELbY\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NPP 2022 Regional Executives Elections: Delegates elect regional officers at today\u2019s polls (27-5-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jNhrnGoELbY?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Todd Boehly will become the new owner of Chelsea after the government approved a takeover deal Chelsea have announced they have entered into a final agreement with Todd Boehly\/Clearlake Capital consortium to sell the club. \u201cChelsea Football Club can confirm that a final and definitive agreement was entered into last night to sell the club [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1102134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[5490,10934,58,3927,3805,7698,10936],"class_list":["post-1102128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-abramovich","tag-boehly","tag-chelsea","tag-confirm","tag-reign","tag-takeover","tag-todd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1102128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1102128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1102128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1102128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}