“Green light” – Fabrizio Romano confirms latest Chelsea big deal is done
The point of the football season where transfer guru Fabrizio Romano announces a “done deal” almost daily as the transfer window opens is rapidly drawing near.
Additionally, he just broke some “done deal” news about Chelsea for this coming weekend.
It’s not a new player being signed, nor is it a player being sold, but it will undoubtedly have to do with that aspect of the team.
This is because Chelsea’s recruitment department recently made a significant hire.
Fabrizio Romano reports that the green light has just arrived for former Brighton Head of Recruitment Sam Jewell to start his new job at Chelsea. Jewell was on gardening leave but it’s now all been agreed for him to start work for summer window. He’ll have senior role as part of multi-club project to select new players.
Chelsea want to buy more clubs, and it looks like Jewell will be concentrating on that part of the business.
It looks to be a decent hire for the club and Jewell has earned himself a good name within football recruitment over time.
Chelsea are expected to be pretty busy once again in the summer window, and I am sure that Jewell will be mucking in and helping out there as well until the multi-club model really gets going and Chelsea bring more clubs in. At the moment, they just have Strasbourg, but I am sure we will soon be hearing about more clubs joining the model under BlueCo, which is the name used for the network of clubs Chelsea’s owners will look to buy.
It’s a successful model already used by the likes of Manchester City’s owners with City group, and also the Red Bull Group who have Leipzig and Salzburg and are a real success story there so far.