Add another name to the list, the Chelsea backroom staff metamorphosis is all but complete. In less than seven months the foundations have been ripped up, torn out and now replaced. The announcement of Christopher Vivell's appointment as technical director is an exciting one and completes a new-look four pronged attack.
Alongside the able supporting cast of Laurence Stewart (technical director with a focus on football globally), Joe Shields (Co-Director of Recruitment and Talent) and Paul Winstanley (Director of Global Talent and Transfers), Todd Boehly has his wish. The undercard to that is another recruitment cog, Kyle Macaulay, who is extremely close with Graham Potter and may be the intermediary in conversations that the manager can't have.
The formerly totalitarian system was headed and run almost solely by Marina Granovskaia with Petr Cech helping in the most recent years. Before Cech, Michael Emenalo was the closest Chelsea have had to a director of football, though he is now remembered for overseeing Antonio Conte's second summer in charge that saw the purchases of Ross Barkley, Emerson, Tiemoue Bakayoko and Alvaro Morata.
