News about Josh Beckett

ROB DRAPER: To get a glimpse of Chelsea owner Todd Boehly's confidence in rewriting the rules of the transfer market - splashing out £320 million last month to add to the £250 million invested in the summer - it's worth mentioning a talk with someone familiar with the case. They were told that this had all been tried before, see the Venky brothers' demise at Blackburn, Peter Ridsdale's scattergun Everton investment, and that you can't reinvent the wheel in football. You should absolutely reinvent the wheel.' Hundreds of times have been reinvented. The car was a modernization of the wheel. The creation of the Premier League in 1992 was a revival of football.' It is not self-assurance that Boehly and his co-owners, Behdad Eghbali, and Jose Feliciano lack, but it is not self-assurance.