{"id":165272,"date":"2024-03-25T16:36:29","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T16:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/03\/25\/chelsea-fan-advisory-board-bite-back-at-supporters-trust-criticism-of-owners\/"},"modified":"2024-03-25T16:36:29","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T16:36:29","slug":"chelsea-fan-advisory-board-bite-back-at-supporters-trust-criticism-of-owners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/03\/25\/chelsea-fan-advisory-board-bite-back-at-supporters-trust-criticism-of-owners\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Fan Advisory Board bite back at Supporters\u2019 Trust criticism of owners \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Chelsea\u2019s Fan Advisory Board have hit back at accusations from the Supporters\u2019 Trust accusing the club\u2019s owners of creating a major divide among fans.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The CST\u00a0recently penned a letter\u00a0to Chelsea\u2019s owners warning them of \u201cirreversible toxicity\u201d and accusing Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital of failing to meet their pledge of involving fans in the future of the club.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the letter,\u00a0Chelsea\u00a0chief executive Chris Jurasek pointed to the creation of the Fan Advisory Board (FAB) \u2013 a group set up by the current owners comprising of seven fans \u2013 for evidence of the owners\u2019 desire to involve supporters, and the FAB themselves have now spoken out to clarify the situation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBluntly, we don\u2019t recognise the suggestion that fans are not being involved in the future of the Club,\u201d the FAB wrote. \u201cThis goes directly against our experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSignificantly more resources have been allocated to fan liaison than at any point in the club\u2019s history. Before the FAB was created there was one part-time employee devoted to supporter liaison. There is now a department which will number four full-time members of staff. Contrary to what has been suggested, these facts give a full and proper picture of what is going on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChelsea\u2019s FAB is a pioneering effort, created around a year ago, to ensure that the fan\u2019s voice is listened to across the Club. FAB ensures it is very broadly in touch with supporter sentiment, to collect and present these views very directly to the club and its board members.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe club is aware that, while the FAB is constructive and understands the realities, we are also challenging. We make our views known forcefully. We achieve real change. We work and will continue to work on the relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/01hstnr8hkec18bgx2dc.jpg\" alt=\"Todd Boehly, Behdad Eghbali\" title=\"Todd Boehly, Behdad Eghbali\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Eghbali &amp; Boehly have faced plenty of criticism \/ Clive Rose\/GettyImages<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<p>The FAB, who regularly invite fans to drop-in sessions to voice their opinions on the management of the club, also rejected claims supporters had been forgotten in the decision to raise matchday prices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt Chelsea Football Club\u2019s last main Board meeting (on March 11th), (co-owners) Todd Boehly and Behdad Eghbali directly (and in-person) asked the FAB to help shape the Club\u2019s proposals in relation to ticketing and we have been working on exactly that,\u201d they continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have had multiple sessions with club executives to work through potential proposals and provided with data to help substantiate any potential changes. So whilst the precise content of these meetings must remain confidential until any decisions and changes can be communicated with supporters, the idea that fans are not involved and not at a decision-making level, could not be further from the truth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFootball is a matter of opinion and expressing emotion is part of that. But we have to get behind our team and make our contribution to victory rather than seek chaos and division through attacks and campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only people who benefit from Chelsea fans turning on Chelsea are fans of other clubs. If we\u2019re pulling in the same direction then \u2018every little thing gonna be alright\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 1 --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea\u2019s Fan Advisory Board have hit back at accusations from the Supporters\u2019 Trust accusing the club\u2019s owners of creating a major divide among fans. The CST\u00a0recently penned a letter\u00a0to Chelsea\u2019s owners warning them of \u201cirreversible toxicity\u201d and accusing Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital of failing to meet their pledge of involving fans in the future [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":165273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Chelsea Fan Advisory Board bite back at Supporters\u2019 Trust criticism of owners \u2013 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/03\/25\/chelsea-fan-advisory-board-bite-back-at-supporters-trust-criticism-of-owners\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chelsea Fan Advisory Board bite back at Supporters\u2019 Trust criticism of owners \u2013 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Chelsea\u2019s Fan Advisory Board have hit back at accusations from the Supporters\u2019 Trust accusing the club\u2019s owners of creating a major divide among fans. 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