Chelsea's new director of football development and operations, Neil Bath, believes that Brexit rules need to be changed in order for English academies to continue to be successful.
Bath, who had been academy manager at Cobham for 18 years and has had a role with the Blues for 29 years, takes up a senior role under the club's new ownership that is actively restructuring the internal model with a freshly recruited transfer team.
Todd Boehly/Clearlake Capital have already appointed Laurence Stewart, Joe Shields and Paul Winstanley into a strategic think-tank for operations, and Bath's success with the academy side has led to a promotion of his own.
