Chelsea have identified a new Sporting director option that could spell exciting news for both Todd Boehly, the fanbase and Graham Potter, who could see their long-term goalscoring issues solved.
The Blues have just come off the back of a summer that has seen £250million plus spent on new recruits. Not only that, but an unexpected new managerial search process has just ended after Boehly wielded the axe on Thomas Tuchel not only for an underwhelming start to 2022/23 but also with relationships quickly deteriorating off the field.
Potter has been brought in not only to change the results on the field in the hope he can achieve top four amid fierce competition from Man United, Arsenal and Tottenham. He has also been employed for his style of football, ability to bring out the best in players and his sufficient man management techniques, which have seen Brighton players sing off the same hymn sheet with the Seagulls sat in the Premier League top four at the time of their manager's departure.
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If all of this is to be achieved without any turmoil, Boehly not only has to back the Englishmen's transfer desires in the upcoming transfer windows. The part-LA Dodgers owner must build the off-field structure to allow healthy relations between on and off the pitch to prosper in the way they did at the Amex. The now Newcastle sporting director Dan Ashworth worked in tandem with Potter's vision and his good relationship with the new Chelsea manager. If he hadn't accepted the new Newcastle project in February, he would have been a certainty to replace Marina Granovskaia and the current interim director Boehly.
However, Ashworth is working with Eddie Howe, and Chelsea must now find a suitable alternative that can match Potter's vision in the transfer market. football.london understands that Michael Edwards and Paul Mitchell were the two frontrunners to become Granovskaia's permanent replacement. The former Liverpool man wants a break from the beautiful game whilst AS Monaco are hellbent on doing everything they can to keep the former Wigan and MK Dons player.
This means Boehly has to look elsewhere for a new solution, and despite the likes of Atletico Madrid's Andrea Berta being linked in the past, a new and well-proven name has come into the fray. PSG advisor Luis Campos, who was brought in this summer by the Parisians to support new manager Christophe Galtier, has already held talks with Boehly ahead of a final appointment being scheduled ahead of the 2022 FIFA World Cup kick-off in November, according to The Times.
Campos is known for successful stints at the likes of Lille and, most memorably, AS Monaco, where he identified Kylian Mbappe, Bernardo Silva, Benjamin Mendy and Tiemoue Bakayoko from the primitive days. His relationship with the PSG icon is reportedly very healthy.
Bringing Campos in would mean that once Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has his two-year return to the Premier League done and dusted, the player who has 318 goal involvements in his club career to date could become a viable option on the table once Chelsea look for their next solution to the ongoing number 9 question.
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