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It is starting to feel as if Chelsea’s hot-shot new owners are addicted to chaos. They must like it. They must feel comfortable with it. Maybe they have some sort of predilection for looking stupid. Maybe they take a perverse pride in taking the opposite view to everyone else.
That, after all, has been their schtick since Todd Boehly and Behdad Eghbali took over the club two years ago. They know better than the fuddy-duddy traditional owners of English football who have not leveraged nearly enough profit out of the bloated cash-cow that is the Premier League and they are going to show us how it’s all done.
So we should not be surprised that just as Mauricio Pochettino was finally beginning to make sense of the anarchy of the billion pound supermarket sweep of player purchases Boehly and Eghbali had inflicted on the club, it should be decided that now was the right time to let him walk away.
Congratulations, guys. You just lost a manager who had the guts and the stature and the strength of character to make it through the hard part. You just lost the manager who had turn what no one thought was possible and had begun to tame the chaos. You just lost progress. You just went back to square one.
The decision to allow Pochettino to leave beggars belief, even if many had expected it. Chelsea won their last five games in succession to end the season with a real feeling that they were making progress and that the troubles that had dogged them for the earlier parts of the season were behind them.
Mauricio Pochettino has left Chelsea by mutual consent following an internal review
Chelsea's co-owner's Behdad Eghbali (left) and Todd Boehly (right) seem like they are addicted to chaos
Pochettino (centre) had led a resurgence at Chelsea towards the end of the season, following a turbulent start to the campaign
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