Finance guru: ‘Big changes on the horizon’ at Chelsea as £50m pay-out now up in smoke
It is no surprise to see wholesale changes in the early days of the new regime’s premiership at Chelsea – and more is yet to come.
That is the view of finance expert Doctor Dan Plumley, speaking exclusively to Football Insider about the swathe of high-profile departures from Stanford Bridge in recent weeks.
Chairman Bruce Buck, director Marina Granovskia and technical adviser Petr Cech have all left the club within the first month of the Todd Boehly era.
The Daily Mail reported last Monday (21 June) that Buck and Granovskia have missed out on a significant chunk of £50million payout that was contingent on them remaining in their positions after the takeover.
Plumley claims that further upheaval within the upper echelons of the club is likely in the coming weeks.
“I think it was always going to be this way with regards to the timing,” the Sheffield Hallam University expert told Football Insider’s Adam Williams,
“New ownership brings new structures, new ways of looking at things. That also means new personnel changes more often than not.
“You can see they have made big changes here and there are more on the horizon. I think it was always to be expected that they were going to do stuff this way.”
The Times reported last Friday (24 June) that the new regime has identified a tax issue relating to the Roman Abramovich regime.
It is understood that the Boehly consortium set aside £100m of the takeover kitty to deal with any such unforeseen liabilities.
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