Having recently fired Thomas Tuchel as Chelsea's head coach, the club's owner has revealed what led to the German's sacking.
The Blues relieved Tuchel of his duties last week following their opening matchday 2022/23 UEFA Champions League defeat to Dinamo Zagreb, before promptly appointing his replacement Graham Potter to the position.
While the firing of the German tactician was accompanied by an official statement from the club explaining his dismissal, Chelsea co-owner and chairman Todd Boehly has now expanded further on the logic behind the manager's abrupt departure from Stamford Bridge.
"Our goal is to bring a team together that with the academy, first team, with the clubs we want to acquire and develop, all of that needs to be a well-oiled machine and the reality of our decision was that we just weren't sure that Thomas felt the same way we thought," the American tycoon explained while speaking at the SALT Conference in the United States, as per the Daily Mirror.
"No one is right or wrong, we just didn't have a shared vision for the future and it wasn't about Zagreb, it's really about the shared vision for what we wanted for Chelsea FC to look like.
"It wasn't a decision that was made about a single win or loss, it was made about what we thought was the right vision for the club."
Following the appointment of Potter as the club's new head coach, Boehly appears to be keen to equip the Englishman with the best resources for him to succeed.
In recent days, the two-time European champions have been linked with RB Salzburg sporting director Christoph Freund as the American executive looks to stay true to his sentiment of working with people who have a common goal.
"You have to make sure you are aligned with the people in the business, and Tuchel is obviously extremely talented and obviously someone who had great success with Chelsea," he added.
"Our vision for the club was finding a manager who really wanted to collaborate with us and I think there's a lot of walls to break down at Chelsea.
"Before the first team and the academy, they didn't have the data or information about where those top players were coming from."
Coincidentally, Potter's first game in charge of the west Londoners will be against RB Salzburg, which will now be layered with another sub-plot following the Blues' rumoured interest in Freund.
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