Trading of players now the norm at unpredictable Chelsea

Chelsea’s current incarnation still takes getting used to. It turns out the 19 years they were owned by a Russian oligarch with links to Vladimir Putin as the club disrupted the economics of European football was a period of relative stability.

The two years since Roman Abramovich’s defenestration have been full of surprises. A club owned by venture capitalists now mirror the core business of Todd Boehly and Behdad Eghbali, the duo who head the operation, the latter far more involved with the football side than Boehly, heading the club’s corporate and governance interests.