A group of Chelsea supporters are planning to protest against Clearlake Capital, the club's ownership group, ahead of this month's Premier League match with Southampton at Stamford Bridge.

The Blues take on the Saints in the Premier League on February 25 - the west Londoners' next home game - and some fans have planned a protest. There is growing unrest amongst fans with the club's model coming into question. Clearlake Capital, the consortium that bought Chelsea back in May 2022 alongside Todd Boehly, and the two sporting directors Laurence Stewart and Paul Winstanley have come under the spotlight in recent weeks.

X (formerly Twitter) account @TheChelseaForum are one of numerous organisers of the planned protest and football.london caught up with the group to talk about what is in the works. They said: "The protest is about change and hopefully causing the owners to have pressure applied on them by their investors as it will hurt their public image.

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"The endgame is change the model or sell up. Also, their terrible treatment of staff, players and stripping of all of the club's former assets."

They continued: "The protest will be a peaceful one with lots of fans and a few banners so that the fans can have their voices heard by the club. As of this moment, the protest will not continue inside the ground. There are already a few hundred [fans on board] but we expect these numbers to rise considerably before Monday. We want to highlight what the American ownership is doing to kill football here in the UK with exploitation and money being their priority."

football.london have contacted Chelsea for a comment on the planned protests.

During Chelsea's defeat to Brighton on Friday evening, there were some chants in the away end of the Amex Stadium against the current ownership. Roman Abramovich's name could be heard at some points during the second-half from a small minority of those that made the trip down to the south coast, with fans letting their feelings towards the former owner known.

"We want our Chelsea back" could also be heard from Blues supporters, just over two months after chants of "we've got our Chelsea back" were bellowing out of the away end at Southampton. football.london asked head coach Enzo Maresca about the change in stance from the Chelsea fans and the Italian said: "The reaction is that I think it is everywhere the same in terms of when you win the games, the fans are happy and when you don't win games, the fans are upset.

"In this moment, they are completely right to be upset. In this moment of the season, with the chance we have of bringing this club to where this club has to be. The desire we showed was not enough."