EPL: TUCHEL WAS FIRED FOR ONE MAJOR REASON: CHELSEA CO-OWNER, BOEHLY.

Todd Boehly, a co-owner of Chelsea, has stated that he fired manager Thomas Tuchel due to the German's refusal to buy into a shared vision.

After Chelsea's UEFA Champions League defeat to Dinamo Zagreb, Boehly and co-owners Behdad Eghbali and Jose E. Feliciano made the surprise decision to fire Tuchel.

Graham Potter, a former Brighton coach, was then appointed by the American to succeed Tuchel.

"When you take over any business, 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," Speaking at the SALT Conference in the United States, Boehly stated.

"Our vision for the club was to find a manager who really wanted to collaborate with us, a coach who really wanted to collaborate.

"There are a lot of walls to break down at Chelsea. Before, the first team and academy did not really share data, did not share information about where the top players were coming from. Our goal is to bring a team together; all of that needs to be a well-oiled machine.

"The reality of our decision was that we were not sure that Thomas saw it the same way we saw it. No one is right or wrong, we just did not have a shared vision for the future. It was not about Zagreb, it was about the shared vision for what we wanted Chelsea to look like.

"It was not a decision that was made because of a single win or loss. It was a decision that we thought was the right vision for the club."