Todd Boehly's summer has been anything but relaxing. He won't have see much of London outside of the Stamford Bridge offices and he is all but living out of a suitcase as he sprints across Europe to start, continue, and tie up transfer negotiations for incoming and outgoing players.
It's the life of a sporting director being done by a man that has spent the first four months of the year attempting to buy the club in the first place. So far, he's done a very respectable job in building new contacts and putting himself into a fresh industry, it's worked as well as it could have.
Deals for Raheem Sterling and Kalidou Koulibaly are the rewards for the hard work. Missed opportunities for Ousmane Dembele, Matthijs De Ligt, Robert Lewandowski and Raphinha will make the two completed transfers taste sweeter but also prove the point that this is a specialist role and Boehly isn't a specialist.
