Apart from the second leg of the Champions League quarterfinals, which monopolizes most of the spotlights, Chelsea will live this Friday a crucial moment for their future. The four investment groups immersed in the process of buying the club must send their final offers. Of those four proposals – led by Sir Martin Broughton, the Ricketts family, Steve Pagliuca and Todd Boehly – the next owner of the London team will emerge.
The final decision will be known at the end of April and will return Chelsea to normal after the British government froze their accounts by sanctioning Roman Abramovich on March 10. From that moment on, the uncertainty in the entity has been growing, especially when referring to the continuity of Marina Granovskaia, the general director of the club for more than a decade.
Nevertheless, According to The Athletic, all the possible buyers of the club have expressed their desire to keep Granovskaia, in the event that they are victorious. The board was recently named the best manager of a European club by Tuttosport magazine and is responsible for closing the majority of contract and transfer negotiations at Chelsea. That is why its continuity is so important for the new owners, who will land in London just before the start of the summer transfer market.
According to the same information, Granovskaia’s position will not undergo any significant changes and will continue to perform the same functions that she has held since joining the west London team under Abramovich. But, despite the departure of the Russian tycoon, as Diario AS learned, both the general director and Peter Cech, the exporter and sports director, intend to lead the new Chelsea project and they have let him know. during these weeks around the club.