{"id":140735,"date":"2025-05-29T06:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T06:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/140735\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T06:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T06:41:09","slug":"chelsea-owners-todd-boehly-and-behdad-eghbali-went-straight-to-32m-player-after-conference-league-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/140735\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea owners Todd Boehly and Behdad Eghbali went straight to \u00a332m player after Conference League victory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Chelsea players were given the chance to embark in wild celebrations for the second time in four days as they were crowned European champions again.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Blues won the Conference League following a 4-1 win over Real Betis, where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechelseachronicle.com\/tag\/cole-palmer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cole Palmer<\/a> led a second half comeback with two glorious assists.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechelseachronicle.com\/match-coverage\/spanish-media-drop-their-cole-palmer-verdict-after-watching-chelsea-destroy-real-betis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spanish media were in awe of Palmer<\/a>, however the entire starting squad stepped up in the second half after going into the break behind.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechelseachronicle.com\/tag\/todd-boehly\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Todd Boehly<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechelseachronicle.com\/tag\/behdad-eghbali\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Behdad Eghbali<\/a> were on the pitch at full-time, as they saw their club win a trophy for the first time since they took over the club.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2217541635-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Robbie Jay Barratt - AMA\/Getty Images\" \/>Photo by Robbie Jay Barratt \u2013 AMA\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>According to journalist Ben Jacobs, both embraced on the pitch before approaching <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechelseachronicle.com\/tag\/nicolas-jackson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nicolas Jackson<\/a> to give him a big hug.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechelseachronicle.com\/news\/what-todd-boehly-did-at-full-time-as-chelsea-confirmed-champions-league-return-with-huge-win\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Boehly embraced Reece James<\/a> straight after the win over Nottingham Forest at the weekend, with the American clearly emotional that he was starting to see the fruits of his labour.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson was on target in the second half as he gave the Blues the lead at 2-1, before more goals from Jadon Sancho and Moises Caicedo left the result in no doubt whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"690\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2217549082-1024x690.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Robbie Jay Barratt - AMA\/Getty Images\" \/>Photo by Robbie Jay Barratt \u2013 AMA\/Getty ImagesNicolas Jackson sends clear message to Chelsea<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechelseachronicle.com\/match-coverage\/nicolas-jackson-repays-enzo-marescas-faith-after-strikers-message-before-conference-league-final-goal-revealed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jackson was out to make amends<\/a> to his Chelsea teammates after his red card against Newcastle saw him unavailable for selection for the final two Premier League games.<\/p>\n<p>His goal in the second half was a great way to do that, as he looks to prove his case for the club that he can still lead the line for years to come.<\/p>\n<p>After coming in for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/11668\/12909682\/nicolas-jackson-chelsea-sign-villarreal-striker-on-eight-year-contract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u00a332m<\/a> two summers ago, Jackson has provided decent numbers but has no doubt missed big chances in key moments.<\/p>\n<p>With Chelsea strongly linked with a new number nine, the Senegal star will be hoping that he has done enough to convince the owners he has a strong future at Stamford Bridge.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chelsea players were given the chance to embark in wild celebrations for the second time in four days&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[61024,94,1184,79,5761,61025,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-140735","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-behdad-eghbali","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-nicolas-jackson","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-todd-boehly","13":"tag-uefa-conference-league","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114589760586411786","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}