Petr Cech has made the decision to leave Chelsea football club. Losing Petr Cech the player, was a hard enough pill to swallow but as an integral figure of the Chelsea board, it is a bittersweet feeling. Todd Boehly has involuntarily taken the ‘out with the old, in with the new’ approach. The departure of Marina Granovskaia and Bruce Buck has shaken things up in the Chelsea hierarchy and it’s only a matter of time before we see the pros and cons of such decisions.
To be fair to Todd, taking on a project as big as owning Chelsea was always going to come with tough decisions. Not everybody would be happy with the departure of Cech but the key thing to note is that he was asked to stay. Reports suggest that Cech insisted that it was the right time for him to leave despite Marina Granovskaia staying until the end of the summer transfer window.
There are two ways to see this. The first is that Todd Boehly is on track to create a clean slate for Chelsea’s new era. The other is that maybe Boehly is in over his head here.
