Whisper it quietly, but the no-brain, scattergun, Football Manager playing Chelsea owners have had a really good start to this window. It won't be popular to say so, selling players that won the Champions League two years ago to league rivals tends not to look brilliant, but it was necessary.
If you want a true rebuild then the best way to do that is to actually tear down the structure in place at the start, not half-heartedly tweak with it. That is, almost inversely, where Chelsea went wrong last year.
The Todd Boehly-Clearlake Capital administration had plans to get started with their grand, sustainable and modern vision for the football club but were trying to do it with one of the most uniquely ran set-ups in the world, all whilst coming out of a period of uncertainty under UK government sanctions, after 19 years of unprecedented success and with a brazen approach unseen or unliked by many.
