Chelsea still have 15 matches to play before the January transfer window opens and given there is a World Cup to be played in the meantime, it is a long way away still.
That won't be stopping Todd Boehly and his co-owners from making plans alongside Graham Potter for the upcoming window. The new manager will be have snap decisions put to him in the early weeks of his reign with key issues to resolve over the coming months.
This will include contractual input, transfer targets and also opinions on incoming directors. It is all very soon for that to be happening considering Potter has only been in charge of one game so far but there is unlikely to be much rest for the manager with the magnitude of the job at hand.
