Bluecore Energy, a maritime nuclear energy startup, secured $10 million in pre-seed funding led by Slauson & Co. The company aims to provide clean power to ports and infrastructure using small nuclear reactors on floating barges, leveraging existing water-cooled technology.
Our cartoonist on Blueco’s ‘self-reflection’ as another normal week ended with a place in the FA Cup finalBuy a cartoon here | His favourites from 2025And his latest book, Chaos in the Box: get it now Continue reading...
Chelsea face Leeds United in an FA Cup semi-final at Wembley with both teams in contrasting form. Chelsea, still without a permanent manager after dismissing Liam Rosenior, have lost seven of their last eight matches. Leeds, despite a relegation battle this season, are unbeaten in almost two months and have impressed against top clubs, including a 3-1 win over Chelsea in December. The winners will face Manchester City in the final on 16 May.
Chelsea are searching for their sixth permanent manager of the BlueCo era after firing Liam Rosenior after just three months. Players felt Rosenior was too inexperienced, couldn't manage strong egos, and was an awkward communicator. The squad want someone with top-level experience and a track record of dealing with players from multiple backgrounds. Candidates include Andoni Iraola, Cesc Fàbregas, Xabi Alonso, Xavi Hernández, Marco Silva and Filipe Luís.
Chelsea's season has reached a critical low point following a defeat to Brighton, highlighting deep-seated issues with the club's data-led recruitment, lack of experienced leadership, and a fractured dressing room culture under head coach Liam Rosenior.
This scathing opinion piece analyzes the sacking of Liam Rosenior as Chelsea manager, characterizing it as the culmination of a fundamentally broken project under BlueCo ownership. The article argues that the club's hedge-fund approach to football has created a team devoid of identity, intelligence, and human qualities, with managers set up to fail. It warns that Chelsea's model represents a dangerous template for modern football — one driven by profit over passion, treating players as tradable assets rather than a team. The piece concludes that only the departure or fundamental reform of the current ownership can save the club.
Chelsea manager Liam Rosenior has been sacked in what the article describes as the strangest and most illiterate footballing project yet under BlueCo ownership. The piece argues Rosenior emerges unstained from a situation where no manager could succeed, blaming the club's hedge-fund owners for creating a dysfunctional environment where managers are treated as interchangeable and footballing knowledge has been sidelined in favour of corporate logic. The article serves as a broader warning about the commodification of football and the destructive nature of the BlueCo regime.
Chelsea have sacked manager Liam Rosenior after just 106 days in charge, the sixth managerial change under BlueCo ownership since their £4.25bn takeover in 2022. The decision marks another chapter in the club's turbulent period under co-owners Behdad Eghbali and Todd Boehly, who have overseen £1.5bn in player spending but also the biggest pre-tax losses in Premier League history at £262m. Rosenior, promoted from Strasbourg as part of BlueCo's multi-club model, becomes the latest victim of what former player Pat Nevin called 'a methodology that clearly doesn't look like it is working'.
The two clubs are struggling to relive former glories and fans are not happy as the overlords make them foot the billEnglish football’s two best teams are from London and Manchester. On Sunday, they meet to decide this season’s Premier League title. Chelsea and Manchester United are not those clubs. Both have dropped from the local prominence they once commanded. If United have a top-four place nailed down, there is significant drop-off from Arsenal and Manchester City. Those two clubs’ gap to Chelsea becomes close to a chasm. Brentford, level on points, may soon enough surpass Chelsea as west London’s best team.United are far closer to a renaissance, though there have been many false dawns since 2013. Both clubs share much in common in the betrayal of previous legends. Rebellion reigns among Chelsea fans. They staged a protest against their current ownership, joined this time by ultras from Strasbourg, both groups raging against the unwelcome changes BlueCo’s stewardship has brought, all for a debt mountain that makes little obvious sense. Continue reading...
