Todd Boehly's baptism into English football certainly hasn't been a simple and easy one to date.
Coming into a club where much of the playing squad were looking for challenges elsewhere meant that the LA Dodgers part-owner was always going to be on the back-foot from the moment he walked in through the doors of Stamford Bridge. Not only the playing cohort though, key members of the board in the form of Marina Granovskaia, Petr Cech and Bruce Buck, all of whom aided transfer strategy, decided to cut their ties in the aftermath of the Roman Abramovich era.
This has left Boehly himself as interim sporting director this summer, whilst manager Thomas Tuchel was handed more power regarding transfers- a strategy that may change again once a full-time sporting director is hired amid links to Michael Edwards and Paul Mitchell.
