Chelsea chairman Todd Boehly has suggested the Premier League should introduce an all-star North versus South game to help raise money for the English football pyramid.
To help raise money for the English football pyramid, Chelsea chairman Todd Boehly has recommended the Premier League adopt an all-star North against South game.
The American co-owner of the Blues has also suggested that instead of three teams being automatically relegated at the end of the season, a "four-team tournament" be held to determine who drops out.
To increase revenue, Boehly, who oversaw a group that acquired Chelsea for 4.25 billion pounds in May, suggested that the Premier League might take a lot of inspiration from American sports.
Chelsea owner Todd Boehly floats the idea of a PREMIER LEAGUE ALL-STAR GAME.
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In an interview at the SALT conference in New York, the 48-year-old said, "I hope the Premier League takes a little bit of a lesson from American sports and really starts to figure out, "Why wouldn't we do a tournament with the bottom four teams? Why isn't there an All-Star game?"
"You could do a North vs South All-Star game in the Premier League and fund whatever the pyramid needed very easily. Everyone likes the idea of more revenue for the league," the Chelsea owner added.
The greatest athletes from each league compete in exhibition-style games known as "All-Star games" in American sports leagues, including the NFL and NBA.
In his hypothetical Premier League all-star game, the greatest and most notable players from northern English teams, such as Liverpool and both Manchester clubs, would likely compete against the vast majority of London clubs in the south.
When questioned about the European Super League, he also acknowledged that he did not provide 'hard nos'.
Boehly further disclosed that Tuchel was fired because he disagreed with the new owners' plans for the team.
"Tuchel is obviously extremely talented and someone who had great success with Chelsea. Our vision for the club was to find a manager who really wanted to collaborate with us. The reality was that we weren't sure that Thomas saw it the same way we saw it. We just didn't have a shared vision for the future. It wasn't a decision that was made because of a single win or loss," the American said.
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Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp unimpressed with Todd Boehly's suggestion
Todd Boehly's suggestion of a North vs South All-Star game has created a massive outburst across social media. Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp too responded to the Chelsea owner's idea.
"He doesn't wait long. When he finds a date for that he can call me. He forgets in American sports these players have four-month breaks so they are quite happy they can do a little bit of sport in these breaks. It's completely different in football," Klopp said.
Jurgen Klopp gives his view on Chelsea owner Todd Boehly's suggestion of a North vs South Premier League All-Star game 👇pic.twitter.com/VAZOkooNyc
— Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportsPL)"Does he want to bring the Harlem Globetrotters as well? I'm surprised by the question so please don't judge my answers too much, but maybe he can explain it to me at one point and find a proper date. I'm not sure people want to see that. Imagine that, [Manchester] United, Liverpool, Everton, Newcastle players all on one team that's not the national team, just a north team. Interesting game. All the London guys together. Arsenal, Tottenham. Great. Did he really say it? Interesting," the Liverpool boss added.
Meanwhile, here's a look at how Premier League fans reacted to the Chelsea owner's suggestion of North vs South All-Star gamem with some even trolling Todd Boehly:
North vs South All-Star Game, who wins? pic.twitter.com/aWqbA7NJ9C
— Jason Soutar (@jbsoutar)Todd Boehly wants to launch a Premier League North vs. South All-Star match
Seems a bit harsh putting Newcastle and Leeds against the other 18 teams
This bloke's seriously deluded. He hasn't a clue.
This on top of his 'North vs South' "All-Star match" proposal &, laughably, a bottom 4 relegation decider. No doubt another top-6 money-making idea 🤦♂️😒 Shut up, Todd. Or do us all a favour and go back to America https://t.co/M7ryzd5kr3
Having no idea is still a better solution than having a All-star north vs south game. Football needs chemistry unlike baseball.
— saurabh khodake (@nirvana0311)So, Chelsea owner Todd Boehly want’s a North vs South Premier League All-Star game. How ridiculous! I do not want any of our players potentially picking up an injury playing for this show game, plus there’s already too many games as it is. SO NO!
— Scouse Mick (@m_scouse)Why can’t Americans understand we do things differently over here. We have no interest in copying American sports https://t.co/X4jj76aZEB
— Matt (@IslingtonMatt)These American Owners 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️ https://t.co/ITCmIrLFIV
— Kaushik Chowdhary 🇮🇳🔰 (@chowdhary_kc)USA, sorry but you’ve got your sports. You had to do your own thing because you weren’t very good at ours, and that’s fine: We don’t try to change yours, you don’t try and change ours. That’s the deal.
Sincerely,
The rest of the world. https://t.co/RQMCvm8HnE
From what i've seen of Mr Boehly, he has no actual concept of what football is about.
Looking at his comments regarding playing with 12 men or the Chelsea academy, i can only seen this ending one way and that is horribly.
Good, is all i can say about that. https://t.co/H7kEzoRucT
I have to say this is entirely flippant and bordering disrespectful in tone from Boehly. Literally making out that everyone who has been running football is a fool for having not thought of this. At least take the time to understand the culture and model in world football first. https://t.co/XK6mDnqnlv
— Hugh Woozencroft (@HughWoozencroft)Americanising the English Premier League.
Fuck. No. https://t.co/H7BOi5bXBk pic.twitter.com/29wo7Wf89N
Christ on cross… https://t.co/uXKc6y2yZl pic.twitter.com/kkqrsmugDA
— Dermot Ward (@chizmund)No sir… just no 🤨🤦🏾♀️ https://t.co/uhmYwTfusH pic.twitter.com/0qV7oTPWxi
— Em El (@ZedEm12)We don’t want you’re American shit it’s a dead thing Football ain’t a business it’s a sport as what troops said you need to learn that Chelsea owner before you become the next glazer https://t.co/ihQSF5gHtA pic.twitter.com/GBZaeogEz6
— Glazers out (@Glazerspissoff)