Chelsea have a brand-new board in place, with even Marina Granovskaia being confirmed as departing. This is a major thing.
We often see frustrations from Chelsea fans directed at Granovskaia and other Blues board members, although funnily enough not often at the actual main decision maker, the owner of the club at the time, Roman Abramovich. But anyway, I was also one of those fans aiming frustrations at some of the operational and transfer decisions this board made.
However, it’s so important to remember now, that this is a whole new boardroom, a whole new set of decision makers, and we cannot continue to associate them with the old board.
I’ve seen a lot of people fed up already based off rumours and speculation about certain players we are targeting not being players they like, then they automatically start shouting things about how ‘this club’ is so bad at operating.
Whilst yes, as I say, they might have been, but this is a new board now and we cannot start talking about how bad we have been in the last five years, because the new board weren’t even here then.
It’s a new era, and we are being led by new execs now, we must not start judging the new board based on things that happened before they were here. There is nothing to say that they will continue operating in the same way, or that scouting and recruitment will continue the same way under new management and instructions.
They deserve our backing and our patience, and we need to not associate this new board with the Chelsea of the past. We should be giving them every chance to prove themselves and separate them from the old regime.