Let's get the obvious point out of the way: Todd Boehly made a couple of high-profile mistakes during his time on stage at the SALT conference in New York last week. Yet these had nothing to do with a suggested Premier League all-star game, nor the concept of multi-club ownership.
No, the errors Boehly made were indisputable. Cold, hard facts. “If you look at what our academy has developed, it’s Mo Salah, Kevin De Bruyne," the American started one of his answers. And given the audience was filled with successful entrepreneurs rather than football supporters, there was nobody to stop and correct Boehly.
The new Chelsea co-owner chairman has since been ridiculed and mocked for claiming De Bruyne and Salah began their journies at Cobham; the Belgian star was schooled at Gent and then Genk in his homeland, while Salah's football education was overseen by Al Mokawloon in Egypt.
