Jose E Feliciano, the new co-owner of a Premier League side, spots a group of journalists arriving as he takes in an open training session at UCLA’s Beverly Hills campus.
He confidently strides over, introduces himself, and then jokingly starts asking reporters which players he should be targeting in the transfer window.
This is not the neurotic, tell-them- nothing Chelsea Football Club of Roman Abramovich, where the permanent expression was one of pained panic and where the former owner travelled with his own exclusion zone.
This is the US-owned Chelsea Football Club — and the future looks a little different.