no they know nothing about Sabatinni and dont know anything about Emenalo or how our club is run either. Unless Sabitinni is in charge of all scouting, contract/buying/selling negotiations and buying first team players (which is a shortlist done by the board IN COOPERATION WITH THE MANAGER) then nothing will change. Emenalo is mainly in charge of running the academy along side Neil Bath and the loan system. Some say he identifies players but all the young buys that you named (including young youth that we bought) have been identified by personal advisors to Roman: Piet De Visser (KDB, Courtois, Lukaku and more) and Guy Hillion (mainly french players like Boga). Willian I think was a Mourinho signings and Bertrand if I'm not mistaken was in our youth setup. Zouma might be an emenalo signing (idk).

Across all that criteria I mentioned (and anybody is free to tell me where I'm wrong) where is Sabatini going to improve us? And countless managers have said how we deal with FIRST team players. The board make a shortlist of players who fit the profile of player the manager wants (or that they think are good) they show it to the manager and then the manager adds his own names/ammends the list. This is Mourinho's words, this is Conte's words when he first got here and its also the word of countless reliable Chelsea journalists (even Dan Levene). Where in that process is Sabatini going to improve us? The other prongs are commercial dealings (Purslow) and then financial negotiations (Granovskaia) most people are quite stupid and dont realize that we are doing the best we can within our available funds. Unless people here are financial experts and can point towards why Marina Granovskaia is terrible at contract/price negotiations and why Sabatini is better that is one prong out the window. Whether we want to change our successful youth setup and the years of work putting into a system that is finally paying off and will produce in the next few years I dont know. What does that leave Sabitini left with to do? If its just first team signings that is done in cohesion with the manager and being honest the types of players that we attract as starting 11 signings are so obvious anyway because of the level of our club. Its not like we're in a leicester situation where we need to scout Kante's and Mahrez's to get us by (not that our scouting system isnt world class already anyway). That is the criteria which he will have to meet, I wonder how many people know what one of those aspects he will come in to influence and after that I wonder how many of them can tell us why Sabatini will do such a better job than what we're doing already. If the answer is what I presume it will be: "they need to stop being stingy and spend fuck tons of money to buy players" then it speaks volumes on how retarded the "change the board" mugs are. And its worth getting this all out at a good time, they wont say anything but will make sure to be toxic after bad results where blaming the board suits their agenda. One of the resident retards of this sub has commented to you and he said "Marina is responsible for first team signings" im dead, and in that list is a huge array of top of players ffs (some in that list are mourinho signings too like costa and fabregas)