Chelsea director Marina Granovskaia is ready to depart Stamford Bridge this summer season regardless of Todd Boehly’s makes an attempt to maintain her and the membership are already lining up a successor, based on stories.
The Russian-Canadian has been a detailed ally of Roman Abramovich for greater than 20 years and was described as his de facto ‘chief of workers’, with the pair first assembly when she joined his Russian oil firm in 1997.
Granovskaia represented Abramovich at Chelsea after he purchased the membership and was appointed to the board in 2013, turning into a key figurehead.
She has been liable for overseeing the soccer facet of the membership operation, together with participant contracts, managerial appoints and dismissals, and transfers.
Granovskaia has turn into a formidable and extremely revered operator and was named the Finest Membership Director in European soccer ultimately 12 months’s Golden Ball Awards, which is run by Italian paper Tuttosport.
All the closing shortlisted bidders seeking to purchase Chelsea from Abramovich had been eager to maintain Granovskaia on the membership, with new proprietor Boehly chatting with each her and chairman Bruce Buck about remaining in west London.
However whereas Buck will proceed in his position, German newspaper Sport Bild declare Granovskaia has determined to depart and can finish her lengthy affiliation with the membership on the finish of August.
Chelsea are already fascinated with a successor and their best choice is Andrea Berta, who's at present the sporting director at Spanish facet Atletico Madrid.
The Italian helped construct a staff that received La Liga within the 2020-21 marketing campaign whereas Chelsea have really been linked with one in every of Atletico’s gamers already, defender Jose Gimenez.
Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel has beforehand spoken glowingly about Granovskaia – and technical and efficiency advisor Petr Cech – and had hoped she would stay on the membership after Abramovich’s departure.
Talking in March, he mentioned: ‘I can solely inform you that till now it was a superb relationship that labored so, so properly for me and hopefully additionally for the 2 others – to take these selections and to have the updates in a small circle of communications and accountability.
‘Hopefully it's going to keep like this however I've no affect over it and data if it's going to.’
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