Chelsea’s board will undergo some changes after being acquired by the American tycoon Todd Boehly from the Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich for 5,000 million euros, but Bruce Buck, 76, will continue to exercise his functions as president.
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Bohely, co-owner of the Dodgers (Los Angeles baseball team), leads a consortium and his purchase operation is only pending the final approval of the British Government and the Premier League.
Buck will join Boehly on the board alongside journalist Daniel Finkelstein and public relations executive Barbara Charone, who will serve as non-executive directors.
Will Granovskaya continue?
It is not yet clear if director Marina Granovskaia will join them after being a key negotiator in transfer and transfer operations. She arrived at Chelsea in 2010 as a representative of her compatriot Abramovich, with whom she began working in 1997 at the Sibneft oil company (now Gazprom Neft), she entered the board in 2013 and the following year she became executive director of the club.
Granovskaia would act as a bridge in sports management after Chelsea could not carry out any operation due to the sanctions imposed on the club by the British government for Abramovich’s links with Vladimir Putin after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
He will not enter the board for being a Tottenham fan
British businessman Jonathan Goldstein, who is part of the consortium, will not have a seat on the board. CEO of a real estate investment firm, he is a close associate of Boehly. However, he prefers to take a less prominent position as some Chelsea fans objected to his participation because he is a fan of Tottenham, the Blues’ eternal London rival.
