Chelsea have huge £300m reason for wanting Christoph Freund with deal close for transfer guru

Chelsea are close to appointing Christoph Freund as their sporting director to work alongside Graham Potter.

Freund has agreed to become the new sporting director at Stamford Bridge, after a series of talks that started last month, football.london understands. There is not, however, an agreement with his parent club RB Salzburg yet.

The Blues will be hoping to wrap a deal up as soon as possible with the hope of having Freund in his new role for the upcoming transfer windows. Todd Boehly acted as the interim sporting director over the summer window, with Chelsea very busy in terms of incomings and outgoings at Stamford Bridge.