‘It wasn’t about a single defeat’ – Todd Boehly finally reveals the main reason for Thomas Tuchel’s sack

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The new Chelsea owners decided to sack Thomas Tuchel just after six league games into the new season.

The sacking came as a shock to all, as no one saw it coming.

As suspected, Chelsea co-owner Todd Boehly has revealed that Tuchel’s sacking had little to do with results, but that the German didn’t share in their vision.

“When you take over any business you just have to make sure you’re aligned with the people who are operating the business,” Boehly said at SALT Conference in New York on Tuesday.

“I think Tuchel is obviously extremely talented and someone who had great success with Chelsea.

“Our vision for the club was finding a manager who really wanted collaborate with us, a coach who really wanted to collaborate.

“I think there’s a lot of walls to break down at Chelsea. Before, for example the first team and the academy didn’t really share data, they didn’t share information about where the top players were coming from.

“So our goal is to really bring a team together that, with the academy, with the first team, with the incremental clubs we want to acquire and develop, all of that need to be a well-oiled machine.

“And the reality of our decision was that we just weren’t sure that Thomas saw the same way we saw.

“No one’s right or wrong, it’s just we didn’t share a vision for the future. It wasn’t about soccer, it was really about the shared vision for what we wanted Chelsea Football Club to look like.

“It wasn’t a decision that was made as a result of a single win or loss. It was a decision that was made really about what we thought was the right vision for the club.”