Daniel Levy will make Tottenham announcement soon after what has just happened at Chelsea

Daniel Levy runs a tight ship at Tottenham and the club has made a quantum leap in the commercial department in recent years that Todd Boehly and Behdad Eghbali want to replicate at Chelsea.

 

Since the move to the state-of-the-art Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in 2019, Spurs’ have not only supercharged the money they take through the turnstiles but also tripled their commercial income.

The 62,850-seater arena is replete with facilities that are designed to empty wallets – and not just on the 25 or so days per year that Tottenham play at home.

Spurs’ partnership with the NFL, who contributed £10m to the construction of the stadium, is perhaps the apex of the stadium project’s commercial success.

 

That triumph has not not gone unnoticed by Chelsea’s owners given their background in American sport.

Since the consortium fronted by Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital arrived in West London in May 2022, the new regime has attempted – with mixed results – to implement a US franchise model on the club.

 

Chelsea have inked ultra long-term contracts with new signings to assuage the club’s PSR burden and protect player value, to cite just one example.

That echoes Boehly’s approach at his Major League Baseball franchise, current World Series champions LA Dodgers, where Japanese pitcher Shohei Ohtani’s 12-year deal is the most lucrative in the history of sport.

Boehly, who has outsized influence at Stamford Bridge relative to his 13 per cent equity stake, is currently at loggerheads with Clearlake Capital supremo Behdad Eghbali over their diverging visions for the club.

 

But one thing the two private equity titans agree on is the need to massively increase commercial income in order to satisfy the Premier League and UEFA’s PSR enforcers.

 

Like Spurs have done in N17, Chelsea are also looking at what can be done at Stamford Bridge to unlock new revenues.

 

And that isn’t the only way that the Blues have been inspired by their rivals in the North of the city.