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Clearlake Capital GroupContact Us | Clearlake Capital GroupA leading global investment firm, Clearlake is known for its strategic partnerships and capabilities across private equity, credit and liquid strategies.I just wish everyone on this forum would express their feelings about Clearlake directly to them...

This isn't about trying to bankrupt them. We know we can't hurt Clearlake being one of 98 investments. It’s just about sending a message... that football is for the people, that football is passion, not an investment. We need to show them we don't want any part of this model. Getting our club back is too big of a hope, but at the very least we can tell them that this isn't how you run a football club. They need to understand that our identity isn't something they can just trade away. Even if they stay, they should know exactly where the fans stand. Even if only season ticket holders boycott or chant or wear shirts against Clearlake, that's half the stadium. Week in week out. It will generate results

We need a fundraiser to flood the area with "Clearlake Out" and make the message impossible to ignore. We use the cash to print a massive tifo, thousands of shirts and banners. We hand them out for free at Fulham Broadway and along the road to anyone willing to carry them. If we get a sea of people wearing the same message, it kills their "brand" imagery instantly. We also need to plaster Fulham Road with posters. Every wall and lamppost on the walk to the ground should say "Clearlake Out." Make it so Eghbali and Feliciano can't look anywhere without seeing it. We must stop being quiet.

If we want to hit the tourists, we do it on Fulham Road, not on club property. We don't block the path [that’s an easy arrest for obstruction] but we create a gauntlet. We need to line both sides of the pavement from the station to the gates. Make them walk through a wall of "Clearlake Out" banners and noise. No aggression, just presence. Hand every single one of them a flyer explaining that they are crossing a picket line and funding the death of the club. If they have to walk past hundreds of locals to get to a turnstile, it ruins the "experience." Most won't want to cross that line if we make it clear they’re subsidizing a scam. We have to make it feel wrong to be a customer while the fans are outside.

I wonder if there's anything that can actually be done on a scale that forces their hand. An empty stadium is the dream, but without the supporters' groups being 100% unified, it's a massive ask [even if Liverpool proved it can work against Sunderland a few years back]. But we can’t just sit on our hands. Even a permanent tifo in the Shed or the Matthew Harding that just says "CLEARLAKE OUT" would be better than nothing. It needs to be there every week, impossible for the cameras to miss and impossible for the board to ignore

I’m done with the "trust the process" nonsense. This isn't a football club anymore; it’s a private equity portfolio. Eghbali and Feliciano are treating 119 years of our history like some plastic tech startup they can "disrupt" until the spreadsheets look pretty. They binned everyone who actually understood Chelsea [Cech, Marina, people with blue in their blood] and replaced them with models and data sets. Instead of competing with City or PSG, they’ve got us trying to imitate Brighton. It’s embarrassing. Clearlake is chasing profit and resale value, not trophies or success. Every time it goes south, they sack another manager, reset the clock, and have the gall to tell us to be patient. It’s a scam to hide their own incompetence. We aren't even building a squad; we're just flipping assets like we're on a trading floor. Booing doesn't work. These guys are venture capitalists; they don't care if you're screaming your lungs out as long as your backside is in the seat and your cash is in their pocket. They only understand optics and the bottom line. We have to stop feeding the machine. Stop slaughtering the manager. Stop abusing the 20-year-olds on the pitch. That’s exactly what the board wants because it gives them an excuse to fire the coach and buy another year of "transition." Every banner and every single chant needs to be aimed directly at Clearlake, Eghbali, and Feliciano. We need empty seats. We need a massive, coordinated walk-out. 15 minutes of empty stands on global TV hits their "global brand" harder than 90 minutes of shouting ever will. We need to get to the tourists at Fulham Broadway, too. Don't be aggressive, just tell them the truth and ask them not to fund the circus inside the ground. Stop buying the shirts. Stop spending a penny in the Megastore. Stop paying for them to "learn on the job" while they gut the soul out of the club. As long as the Bridge is full, they think they're winning. Doing nothing is just giving them permission to keep destroying Chelsea. Either we make it impossible for them to stay, or we admit we’re fine with our club becoming a hollowed-out shell.

In a similar way to what many fans did outside the Bridge to protest the decision to join the Super League, why don't we fans finally step up and protest these clueless businessmen that know nothing about football? Clearlake don't care about this football club, they're just after money, but we keep showing our support every time a home game is sold out. Stamford Bridge should be completely empty so to make those clowns at the helm know we've had enough and either they put football ahead of money, or they can go.