FANS all made the same joke as Todd Boehly took his seat at Stamford Bridge.
The Chelsea owner splashed out a staggering £330million in January as eight senior players arrived – including a British-record fee for Enzo Fernandez.
Before kick-off in their first game since the closing of that wild window, Boehly sat down in the directors’ box.
But there were a few eyebrows raised when people realised who had the adjacent seat to watch the Blues take on Fulham.
That is because it was former chancellor George Osborne.
And that prompted a host of similar gags from witty viewers on social media – hinting their friendship explains Chelsea’s ridiculous January spending.
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One wrote: “Todd Boehly mates with George Osborne? Course he bloody is.”
Another said: “Of course George Osborne would be sitting next to Todd Boehly.”
A third added: “George Osborne sat next to Boehly, hard to tell which one did more damage to their respective economies.”
And even Gary Neville got involved.
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The Man Utd legend said: “He’s sat next to the ex-chancellor, that makes sense!”
Osborne, 51, is a lifelong Chelsea supporter and season-ticket holder – and was even alongside Roman Abramovich when the Blues lifted the Champions League in 2012.
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He was brought in as an advisor by Boehly last April to help boost his consortium’s chances of buying the club from Roman Abramovich.
The former MP, ex-Evening Standard editor and now British Museum chairman was spotted earlier in the day out walking with fiancee Thea Rogers, their newborn son Arthur and their dog in West London.
The family live down the road from Stamford Bridge in a £10m Notting Hill house.
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
