Jamie Redknapp slams Todd Boehly after Chelsea owner walked out of Manchester City game early

Chelsea owner and chairman Todd Boehly was embarrassingly caught walking out of his team’s huge game against Manchester City before full-time.

The Blues kicked-off their season with a 2-0 loss at Stamford Bridge with manager Enzo Maresca’s reign off to an uninspired start.

Groans could be heard from home fans throughout the match, as well as chants calling for Conor Gallagher, and they weren’t the only ones in the stands unhappy with what they saw.

Boehly, whose BlueCo. group bought the Premier League giants two years ago, was seen hurriedly getting up from his seat and heading back into thehospitality area just seconds after City scored their second goal in the 84th minute.

Adding insult to injury, that goal was scored by Mateo Kovacic who Boehly sold last summer despite his consistent performances for the west Londoners.

It was not a good look for the American whose ownership of Chelsea has been widely panned, especially in regards to their baffling transfer strategy.

To date, the club have spent a staggering £1.2billion on 44 players in just two years, yet their fortunes on the pitch have declined radically.

Maresca himself has said that the squad is over-bloated with too many players in training compromising the team’s quality and his ability to implement his tactics, a complaint predecessors Mauricio Pochettino and Graham Potter also made.

Jamie Redknapp slammed the transfer strategy implemented by Boehly while discussing Raheem Sterling’s controversial statement issued shortly before the match.

‘He [Maresca] has got to go back into training tomorrow and he’s going to see so many unhappy faces,’ the Liverpool icon said on Sky Sports.

‘Normally we have 11 v 11 on a Thursday, trying to get the squad playing together. You’ve got 20 players that can’t even get in the 11 v 11. How can that be right?

‘The best teams in the Premier League over the last five years work on the basis of 24 or 25 players in their squad. How and why do they think that they’re going to reinvent football and try to do this.

‘You’re making the manager’s job virtually impossible with the group of players that they’ve got.’

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