Speaking at CAA\u2019s World Congress of Sports conference in Los Angeles on Thursday, Clearlake co-founder Eghbali admitted that BlueCo are still looking to improve their ownership strategy, but reiterated that they care about maintaining Chelsea\u2019s modern standards of consistently competing for the biggest trophies.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor the fans, we care,\u201d he said. \u201cWe want the club to be successful. We\u2019re focused on delivering that on-pitch performance. I think six months ago everyone was super-happy. Results have been mixed, disappointing more recently. There\u2019s a full reflection on what we can do better, what we can improve on.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is a plan. We reflect on the plan. We try to improve the plan and tweak the plan if it\u2019s not working. The message is we\u2019re committed.<\/p>\n
\u201cCan this be successful without winning? The answer is no. We\u2019ve got to win. And it doesn\u2019t mean you\u2019re going to win every game, it doesn\u2019t mean you don\u2019t make mistakes, that you don\u2019t have downturns, but ultimately the objective, and especially the objective that a club like Chelsea is you\u2019ve got to win, you\u2019ve got to win trophies, and you\u2019ve got to win consistently again.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were fortunate enough to do so last year. We\u2019ve had a bit of an up and down year this year, but the objective hasn\u2019t changed.\u201d<\/p>\n
A huge reason for the downturn in Chelsea\u2019s season was the abrupt departure of head coach Enzo Maresca on New Year\u2019s Day. \u201cOur policy has been no in-season changes,\u201d Eghbali added.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou certainly review and hold not only the manager, but the management team, the sporting team, accountable, but typically in the summers, not in season.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not a change we wanted to make. It\u2019s a change that had a bit of a negative impact in the season, when you\u2019re changing systems and personnel, and it\u2019s one we\u2019ve got to fight our way out of.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe still have six matches in the Premier League, and an FA Cup semi final coming up. So hopefully the story of this season hasn\u2019t been written yet, and you\u2019ve got a lot to fight for. In my perspective, when you get punched in the face, you\u2019ve got to fight back, you\u2019ve got to stand up and fight. And it\u2019s going to hopefully show a lot about the character of this squad.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the perspective is stability, and frankly, getting that stability on the manager side is one of the things we haven\u2019t done right yet, and it\u2019s something we\u2019re striving to improve on.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\n Chelsea replaced Enzo Maresca with Liam Rosenior in January (Adrian Dennis\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n
Maresca\u2019s replacement Rosenior has won just one of his last six matches across all competitions, but Eghbali confirmed the former Strasbourg boss retains the support of the board and sporting leadership.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn Liam, we had the opportunity to work with him daily for 18 plus months, so we knew what we were getting,\u201d Eghbali said. \u201cWe think he has every attribute to be successful here. He got off to a great start. We\u2019ve had a tough past five, six matches, but I think we\u2019re behind Liam. Of course, it\u2019s a results business, but we think he can be successful long term.\u201d<\/p>\n
Chelsea\u2019s recent struggles have also drawn more criticism to their heavily youth-oriented recruitment. Eghbali signalled that the club are ready to target players equipped to make an immediate impact in this summer\u2019s transfer market.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe view was to recruit and build elite players that can, frankly, be together and have that stability in the squad,\u201d Eghbali said. \u201cWe\u2019re still in the 40th, 50th minute of that process. But the view is to keep, sign and retain and compensate and extend some of the world\u2019s best players, and ultimately the view was you need, eight, 10, 12, 15 elite players to win and win sustainably, year after year.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we\u2019ve done a few things right, a lot of things right. We\u2019ve got to be better on a few things, to add more ready-made players at this part of the project, to take (it ) to the next level, to be consistent over time.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe recognise we need balance. We have world champions, we have Champions League winners, we have elite, elite young players. Experience has developed now. The team has been together for two or three years. The objective is to keep your best players, and we\u2019ve done that, and there\u2019s no intention to rebuild every three or four years. You tweak a model, you improve, you learn from mistakes.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur goal is to have elite, elite players on the pitch, elite characters off the pitch that our fans can bond with, that will be at the club, that will be club legends for the next 10 or 15 years and beyond. I think, generally, we\u2019ve been fortunate, not in getting everything right, but we do have a core (of) good players, global players. Cole Palmer, Moises Caicedo, Enzo Fernandez, Levi Colwill, Estevao Willian, Reece James.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe view is now that we\u2019re here with a great core base, to add some of that experience, to take the team to the next level and have consistency. That fact is not lost on us, and we\u2019re at a point where we can take that next step, hopefully in the next year and beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Behdad Eghbali has told Chelsea supporters that owners BlueCo are learning from their mistakes and are committed to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[464,403,99],"class_list":["post-588908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-chelsea","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}