Michael Edwards' rejection, Paul Mitchell's unavailability and Christoph Freund U-turn- where do Chelsea and Todd Boehly turn next in their ongoing sporting director search?
Boehly and the Clearlake Capital ownership would have hoped that the process to appoint Marina Granovskaia's successor would have been smoother than how it is turning out to be.
There was growing confidence that Freund woujld move to west London and the Austrian initially was happy to discuss a move but once the Red Bull group found out about the negotiations, they succeeded in changing his mind.
