For those concerned about the sanity of Todd Boehly and Behdad Eghbali, rest assured. There is some humility 10 months into their ownership of Chelsea, in the week that saw Graham Potter sacked and Frank Lampard reinstalled.
‘It’s a f***ing mess, of course it is,’ said someone close to the executives this week. ‘No one is pretending this was the plan.’
The leadership at Chelsea are not so insulated from reality in their respective Santa Monica and Connecticut billionaire lairs that they are unaware of the perception of them in the European game, that of big-talking Americans strolling into town and flashing the cash.