Southampton boss Ralph Hasenhuttl has confirmed the departure of Chelsea-bound Joe Shields, insisting such a loss is not a significant one at St Mary’s.
Standard Sport reported earlier this week that Chelsea were in advanced talks to appoint Shields as their new director of recruitment as part of a high-profile backroom hiring drive that will see the Todd Boehly-Clearlake ownership group hand over the day-to-day football operations to specialists having done much of the work themselves since taking over from Roman Abramovich, with the likes of Marina Granovskaia, Petr Cech and Bruce Buck having moved on.
