Chelsea and Todd Boehly are probably taking longer than they initially envisaged to appoint their new sporting director to take over permanently from Marina Granovskaia.
The last few months have been hectic for the west Londoners. Boehly and Clearlake Capital have tried to get their feet under the table at Stamford Bridge following their £4.25billion purchase from previous owner Roman Abramovich.
However, the purchase, which was made official at the end of May, was right before the transfer window kicked off. At the same time that the Americans were trying to stabilise the ship, the departures of Granovskaia, Petr Cech, Bruce Buck and more brought instability amongst the ranks, to the point whereby Boehly acted as interim sporting director for the most recent summer transfer window which ended in the LA Dodgers co-owner spending £270m-odd on new recruits.
