Todd Boehly

Exclusive: The bulk of Chelsea's transfer business will now be handled by recent appointments Christopher Vivell and Paul Winstanley.

There is confidence that results and performances will improve as players start to return from injury. But finding a deputy to James is considered one of the most important and difficult tasks. [Chelsea’s owners remain supportive of Potter](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2023/01/06/chelsea-keep-faith-graham-potter-plan-youngsters-contention/) and that has not changed following [the latest defeat to City](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2023/01/08/graham-potter-admits-chelsea-not-good-enough-painful-defeat/). Kyle Macaulay moved to Chelsea from Brighton with Potter as a recruitment analyst. [some of the best young talent](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2023/01/06/chelsea-keep-faith-graham-potter-plan-youngsters-contention/) in the world along with attempting to strengthen Potter’s squad. [a new recruitment team](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2022/10/25/chelsea-raid-brighton-head-recruitment-paul-winstanley/), some of whom have started work in this month’s transfer window, Boehly has dropped the sporting director title and is now just Chelsea’s chairman.

Todd Boehly has left his post as interim sporting director at Chelsea, 90min can confirm, with his new recruitment team starting to take shape.

Available on [all audio platforms.](https://podfollow.com/1618416642/view) [Scott Saunders](https://twitter.com/_scottsaunders) hosts [Graeme Bailey](https://twitter.com/GraemeBailey) and [Toby Cudworth](https://twitter.com/Toby_Cudworth) in the latest episode of Talking Transfers. Christopher Vivell has been appointed as technical director and will now lead the team's transfer business alongside Paul Winstanley, who joined from Brighton as director of global talent and transfers.

Chelsea co-owner Todd Boehly has stepped down from a major role as the club nears a January deal for Joao Felix.

He wants Winstanley and Vivell to lure some of the world's most exciting young talent to west London amidst strengthening Graham Potter's first team. Co-director of recruitment and talent Joe Shields and technical director Laurence Stewart will join the duo next month to lead Chelsea's transfer strategy. Boehly will continue as solely the Blues' chairman after leading transfer negotiations since a whirlwind summer of 2022. And now [reports](/sport/football/1718897/Chelsea-transfer-news-Man-Utd-Arsenal-Joao-Felix-Premier-League-latest-gossip) confirm Chelsea have struck a £9.6m agreement with Atletico Madrid to sign Joao Felix on loan until the end of the season. [The Telegraph](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2023/01/09/todd-boehly-stands-chelseas-interim-sporting-director/) report he is no longer operating in the role after hiring a new recruitment team, some of whom started work this month.

TODD BOEHLY has stepped down as Chelsea's interim sporting director, reports suggest.American businessman Boehly acquired Chelsea after Roman Abramovi.

[Enzo Fernandez](https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/20987927/chelsea-in-enzo-fernandez-transfer-blow-benfica/) and Mykhailo Mudryk [could see Chelsea eclipse the half-a-million spent mark](https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/20936230/chelsea-transfers-enzo-fernandez-mykhailo-mudryk-january/) in just seven months of Boehly's ownership. [Winstanley became the club's new head of global talent and transfers](https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/20433683/chelsea-paul-winstanley-director-transfers-brighton/) after being pinched from Brighton in November. [agreed to pay the £10m fee Atletico Madrid demanded for Joao Felix](https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/20988321/chelsea-joao-felix-atletico-madrid/). [Marina Granovskaia](https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/18954530/chelsea-marina-granovskaia-bonus-todd-boehly-takeover/) and [Petr Cech](https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/19010224/chelsea-petr-cech-steps-down-exodus-takeover/), leaving the club very short on upstairs personnel. [brought in as the Blues new technical director](https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/20825074/chelsea-news-christopher-vivell-technical-director/) last month from RB Leipzig. [Boehly](https://www.thesun.co.uk/who/todd-boehly/) acquired [Chelsea](https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/team/1196660/chelsea/) after Roman Abramovich had his assets frozen owing to his links with Russian president Vladimir Putin, who the UK government were sanctioning due to the invasion of Ukraine.

Graham Potter is under pressure after Chelsea's calamitous defeat to Man City, but Boehly is also culpable after sanctioning a disastrous – and costly – ...

Riyad Mahrez’s stunning free-kick set the ball rolling on a performance that left Guardiola purring afterwards. Much is made of The eye-watering fees disguise how average most of their signings have been. What is the big idea here apart from waving a chequebook around? But what we have seen in terms of recruitment has been distinctly unimpressive, despite the eye-watering fees. Chelsea are all pretty patterns in their own third but seem incapable of imposing their will on opponents in the opposing third. Back then he told an audience in New York that the The natives are unconvinced and increasingly restless. Potter reasoned afterwards that Pep Guardiola’s team are capable of making it look like players aren’t trying due to their “exceptional positional structure” but that argument doesn’t cut much ice when [senior men like Havertz and Kalidou Koulibaly](https://inews.co.uk/sport/football/man-city-chelsea-player-ratings-mahrez-foden-havertz-potter-2071486?ico=in-line_link) are letting the side down with performances strewn with such rank carelessness. There he was able to successfully construct a team and style of play that was effective away from the limelight. It is admirable [to want to give a manager time](https://inews.co.uk/sport/football/chelsea-get-worse-before-better-graham-potter-under-pressure-2059461?ico=in-line_link), but whatever the big picture looks like, Potter won’t survive many more afternoons as chastening as this. [Chelsea ](https://inews.co.uk/topic/chelsea-fc?ico=in-line_link)and Potter on a day that brings big questions directly to Todd Boehly’s door.

Chelsea chairman Todd Boehly has stepped back from his role as the club's interim sporting director, it has been reported.The Blues' co-owner, who too.

Free Bets are paid as Bet Credits and are available for use upon settlement of qualifying bets. Bet £10 & Get £50 in Free Bets for new customers at bet365. Min odds, bet and payment method exclusions apply. [Romeo Lavia](https://talksport.com/football/1297726/chelsea-transfer-southampton-romeo-lavia-man-city-enzo-fernandez-benfica/), who only signed from Manchester City in the summer for £12million. [Christopher Vivell](https://talksport.com/football/1283551/chelsea-technical-director-christopher-vivell/) joined the west London side as their new technical director in December having previously been at RB Leipzig. [Daily Telegraph](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2023/01/09/todd-boehly-stands-chelseas-interim-sporting-director/) reports.

Chelsea co-owner Todd Boehly has stepped down as the Blues interim Sporting Director. The club's owners have now handed the position to Christopher Vivell.

The Telegraph reports that Boehly is now only Chelsea’s chairman as Vivell and Winstanley will lead the Blues’ transfer strategy now. The Blues’ owners have started bringing in a new management team and have named Vivell as technical director and Winstanley as director of global talent and transfers. The club’s owners have now handed the position to Christopher Vivell and Paul Winstanley.

Chelsea owner Todd Boehly has stepped back from his interim role as the club's sporting director, which he took on in June 2022.

Winstanley was announced as the club's director of global talent and transfers back in November, and it is thought that the pair will lead the Blues' business in the rest of this January's window and beyond. Including recent January acquisitions, the American has overseen the spending of almost £350m ($426.5m) on players, but Boehly appointed himself in the position after key figures Marina Ganovskaia and Petr Cech left the club shortly after his arrival.