Chelsea owner Todd Boehly roasted by Richard Keys over all-star call

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Broadcaster Richard Keys has slammed Chelsea co-owner Todd Boehly over his idea that the Premier League should host a North vs South All-Star game, similar to the events hosted in US sports. The Blues acting sporting director admitted that he would like to see the game adapted by the league and any income could be used to fund the football pyramid, but former Sky Sports presenter Keys has claimed that Boehly is making Chelsea look like a “laughing stock” within the world of football.

At a conference in New York, American businessman Boehly suggested the idea of an All-Star game within the Premier League. “Why don’t we do a tournament with the bottom four sports teams,” Boehly asked. “Why isn’t there an All-Star game?

“People are talking about more money for the pyramid, in the MLB All-Star game this year we made $200m (£173m) from a Monday and a Tuesday. So we’re thinking we could do a North versus South All-Star game for the Premier League, for whatever the pyramid needed, quite easily.”

Keys slammed Boehly on Twitter and hit out at the UK Government for appointing him as their preferred bidder before his consortium took over from Roman Abramovich. “Todd Boehly was this government’s preferred bidder for Chelsea,” Keys wrote. “He’s been described by some who advocate an independent regulator as a ‘laughing stock’. He’s turning Chelsea into the same. The lesson? Govt & their regulators should never be allowed anywhere near football.”

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Keys was not the only person to oppose Boehly’s ideas, as Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp was asked about the potential American-styled event taking place in the UK. “When he finds a date for that he can call me,” Klopp said after his side defeated Ajax 2-1 in the Champions League on Tuesday. “In American sports these players have four-month breaks.

“Maybe he can explain that. I’m not sure people want to see that – [Manchester] United players, Liverpool players, Everton players all together. North-east too, so Newcastle. It is not the national team. All the London guys together, Arsenal, Tottenham, great. Did he really say it? Does he want to bring the Harlem Globetrotters as well?”

Express Sport has looked at a potential North vs South team that features a maximum of three players from a single club, and the seven high-profile players that could miss out if such an idea was approved by the league.

Manchester United icon Gary Neville also voiced his concerns over what Boehly’s idea represents, and reiterated his stance that football needs an independent regulator. “I keep saying it but the quicker we get the Regulator in the better,” Neville tweeted.

“US investment into English football is a clear and present danger to the pyramid and fabric of the game. They just don’t get it and think differently. They also don’t stop till they get what they want!”

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