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Todd Boehly 'didn't know who Chelsea were' before billionaire's £4.25bn takeover

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Chelsea owner Todd Boehly has admitted he had no idea who the Blues were when he was growing up in the United States.The American billionaire has completed his £4.25billion takeover of the Premier League side after a protracted three-month selection process.

Boehly’s consortium, which sees him join forces with Clearlake Capital, LA Dodgers co-owner Mark Walter and Swiss tycoon Hansjorg Wass, were chosen as the preferred party to acquire the club.But while interest in football — or ‘soccer’ as it is known in the USA — has skyrocketed Stateside in the 21st century, Boehly has conceded that when he was growing up, he had no knowledge of the English game.

Instead, the now-48-year-old revealed he would watch cartoons on a weekend, accepting that today’s American kids have better access to watch the Premier League’s finest in action.“One of the great things the Premier League has is that it's on a Saturday morning in America.

So you have an uncongested time slot that is now fully dominated by the Premier League,” he told Bloomberg in 2019. "When I was growing up, [we had] Pac-Man, Donkey Kong.

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