Philippe Auclair
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1,957 appearances
16 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 19 Aug
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But certainly up there and I think the the problems for Chelsea are going to be off the field, not on the field.
Um they're in a really bad, really, really bad situation, uh when it comes to the ownership.
There's now a lot of talk about um well we know Mark Walter, who has got
Nearly thirteen percent of the shares is now trying to uh salvage what's left of his big empire by selling his uh share in Chelsea after uh selling Lake the Lakers.
And um Todd Bowley as well is thinking of doing the same.
They have debts which are well in excess of one billion with punishing interest rates because everything is payment in
they they can they they've run out of things to sell to themselves.
And uh they they they might have to uh I I I do think the financial problems are of such magnitude that they will have an impact on the club during the season.
Uh even if the Premier League has decided to let them, you know, go away with an absolutely ridiculous fine um for the all their misdemeanours, they
They're really in a real, real bad state.
And can I do a little plug here?
Because we just we we outscooped the Financial Times yesterday at Yosima.
We just
Yes.
Paul Brown wrote an absolutely fantastic piece on on the financial crisis at Chelsea and Walter's situation at Totbullies.
mistake?
Yes, absolutely.
Absolutely, because this level of debt is simply not uh I mean it's it it y you cannot survive.
And also it it depends on the kind of debt you have, I suppose.
But theirs is a debt again which is payment in kind, which means it is constantly pushed back, pushed back, pushed back, with interest rates which are well in excess of ten percent, um sometimes up to thirteen point five, fourteen percent.
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