Ever since the Todd Boehly era began at Chelsea last month there has been much made about how things were about to change at Stamford Bridge.
Boehly's vision, it has been said, is to try and mirror much of the work that has been done by Fenway Sports Group at Liverpool, bringing a more streamlined approach to recruitment, focusing heavily on analytics in a bid to reduce the risk attached to bringing in new players, and delivering a new wage structure more akin to what the Reds have in place.
FSG are 12 years in to their Liverpool tenure. There have been mistakes and missteps along the way, but in terms of the improvement on and off the field since their arrival it is undeniably better. The Reds go into the new season on the back of a campaign where they were pipped to the Premier League title in the last 15 minutes of the season, where they were beaten finalists in the Champions League and where they lifted both the FA Cup and Carabao Cup.
