“Queens of worldwide soccer” Chelsea will change into a “billion-dollar franchise”, based on new co-owner Alexis Ohanian.
The Reddit founder has purchased an 8-10% stake believed to be price about £20m within the home treble winners – an funding Chelsea supervisor Sonia Bompastor known as a “game-changing endorsement”.
Ohanian, who’s married to former tennis participant Serena Williams, isn’t any stranger to investing in girls’s soccer, having beforehand been the biggest shareholder in American facet Angel Metropolis FC till it was offered for £192.3m in 2024.
He has additionally based a women-only athletics occasion named Athlos.
The American hopes his involvement will assist the Blues change into “America’s crew” and put them on the “forefront of girls’s sport”.
“Chelsea could be very distinctive. These are the queens of worldwide soccer, and so they’ve obtained the trophy case to show it. It is a very particular membership,” Ohanian instructed BBC Sport.
The 42-year-old was current at Wembley, alongside his spouse, for the Ladies’s FA Cup closing towards Manchester United, which Chelsea gained 3-0 to finish the home treble with out shedding a match.
Nonetheless, whereas they’ve been dominant domestically, they had been knocked out of the Champions League within the semi-finals this season, overwhelmed 8-2 on combination by holders Barcelona.
“The sky is the restrict,” continued Ohanian. “You heard our president say this membership is unapologetically formidable – I wish to get that tattooed on me.
“That’s what we’re attempting to construct right here – the perfect crew on this planet and on the forefront of girls’s sport.
“This shall be a billion-dollar franchise in the future. I hope my {dollars}, my kilos, can go in direction of that and particularly again dwelling in America. That is going to be America’s crew.”
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