STABILITY. That was the word used by Todd Boehly when discussing Chelsea at a business conference in Qatar last Wednesday.
Later that evening, Mauricio Pochettino navigated a young but improving team to a fourth straight win that all but sealed European football after a season away.
And by Friday Boehly was wining and dining Pochettino, who reflected later: “If I invite you along, and you and me have dinner, it’s not for bad things. I don’t believe that.”
Except the brief statement communicating Pochettino’s departure after less than a year at Stamford Bridge was instructive because, well, there was no mention of Boehly.
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