Chelsea's potential and prospects: Burley's long-term plans and new manager selection

preface

Tuchel's class, Porter's multi-round winless run, Frank Lampard's makeshift firefight... US boss Burley's first season at Chelsea was not a rocky one. Due to the long-term success of Russian billionaire Abramovich at Chelsea, it seems that the newcomer to football Burley is at a loss and confused. And the chaos and disorder of interim manager Frank Lampard's first game in office seems to have made Chelsea fans even more desperate.

Did Burleigh leave to make a quick buck, or did he have a long-term plan but failed to do so? Is it a random buying of people in a scattered sand or is it planning a big chess game that goes unnoticed? These questions have to be the key to careful consideration.

For these questions, I believe that after reading this article, you will have a clear and personal answer.

Burleigh's long-term plan – ownership structuring, censorship avoidance, and specialization

(1) Burleigh did not skimp on money

Burley has feelings for Chelsea, he is not a businessman who suddenly appeared after Abou's assets were frozen, buying Chelsea has always been his expectation, as early as 2019, Burley once approached Abu and expressed his hope to buy Chelsea, but it was not approved by Abou.

This time, although Burleigh took advantage of the UK's freezing of Abu assets to buy Chelsea with zero debt for only £2.5 billion, it cannot be denied that Burleigh has a passion and plan for football investment.

Burley was actually a gift from Abu to Chelsea fans

Thanks to Abou's commitment to forgiveness, Chelsea became a bounty in the sports market in 2022, receiving more than 250 purchase enquiries, detailed discussions with more than 100 individuals and entities, and 32 confidentiality agreements signed throughout the sale period.

In the end, Burleigh stood out from the more than 100 competitors because Burleigh is a specialist in sports investment and has made a commitment to a steady £1.75 billion investment into Chelsea in the future.

MLB's Los Angeles Dodgers and NBA's Los Angeles Lakers both have Burleigh's investment behind them

Despite fears that Burleigh would be stingy with all his soccer team investments like the older Kroenk, who also had a lot of sports investment in the United States, Burleigh proved that he was not a stingy boss in just one summer window, dropping £300 million in real money in one summer window.

The swift signing of a long contract proved Burleigh's ambitions

After two transfer windows, Bethlehem bought a large number of players, many of whom signed extra-long contracts. For example, Mudrick, who signed for eight years, Enzo, Badiasile, who signed for seven years, and Wesley Fofana, who signed for six years. Some believe that giving these young players such long contracts is a sign of Burleigh's immaturity in the football market.

Instead, however, it is these contracts that demonstrate Burleigh's intention to maintain Chelsea's competitiveness over the long term.

Enzo's eight-year contract with Argentine Nova has a lot of worries

Burleigh actually divided his list of signings, one type of players are mature fighters over 25 years old, these players include Raheem Sterling, Aubameyang, Koulibaly, Burleigh gave them only 4 years, 1 year and 3 years of contract; The other category is the future combat power under the age of 23, and Burleigh's long contract is mainly for them.

Burleigh's aim is to quickly replenish the game without FFP and ensure that it can still be brought in at a high price for the next few seasons.

In recent years, local teams such as Manchester City and Paris have often been seriously threatened with "expulsion from the Champions League" for violating FFP policies, while Serie A's AC Milan and Inter Milan have been fined several times for violating FFP.

Burley's long contract has sidestepped FFP, ensuring that Chelsea can still invest heavily in the transfer window for the next few seasons

And Burleigh's long contract very cleverly avoids FFP. Burleigh's high-priced signings in both transfer windows have basically adopted an installment model. For example, the winter window marked King Enzo's 120 million transfer fee, Chelsea only need to pay 40 million this season, and the remaining 80 million euros transfer fee, Chelsea will pay in 5 installments, an average of only 16 million euros per period - Chelsea, who spend lavishly, does not violate FFP at all, and can still spend lavishly in the coming seasons.

Chelsea's behaviour has drawn criticism from many other clubs, but the fact is that Chelsea have managed to exploit UEFA's loopholes, and Burley will not fall into the cycle of "breach - fine - break again" like Milan duo.

And Burleigh's huge investment potential also indicates that his future investment in Chelsea is likely to be no less than Manchester City's UAE owner Mansour - he will definitely invest heavily for many seasons.

In terms of investment support, Burleigh is significantly stronger than the rest of the Premier League's other American owners

Board structure: Balance football people in addition to investors

Many would overlook the composition of Chelsea's new board, with the general focus on Chairman Burley and two other shareholders, Behdad Eghbali and Jose Eliciano, without noticing that not all of Chelsea's board is a football layman.

Of interest is Jonathan Goldstein, the British entrepreneur who is a true London football fan. Interestingly, though, he's a Tottenham fan and successfully bid for a Harry Kane's signature sneaker at an auction, and he tried unsuccessfully to buy Tottenham in 2014. As a partner of Burleigh, he was instrumental in the planning and strategy behind the scenes of this successful acquisition of Chelsea.

During Burleigh's acquisition of Chelsea, the keen newspaper The Sun covered Goldstein

In addition to Goldstein, Chelsea's board also has some authentic Chelsea fans. Daniel Finkelstein, for example, has been a Chelsea fan since he was seven years old and has accompanied Chelsea through multiple relegation crises. A former Times columnist, he has also repeatedly written in support of Abou, a figure who represents fans on Chelsea's board.

In addition, Chelsea's board includes investors turned professional athletes, as well as Chelsea fans turned cultural entrepreneurs. Through the composition of the board members, Burley has also shown that he attaches great importance to the Chelsea team.

Despite the poor situation, Burley has shown determination to maintain the club's competitiveness

Specialized (data-based) new administrative team – reusing Red Bull and Manchester City

The quality of a team depends not only on the level of the owner, but also on the level of administrative and technical personnel who are the direct managers of the team. Following Burley's successful purchase of Chelsea, he sacked the management of the Abou-era team and took on the role of interim sporting director himself in charge of the transfer.

However, with the transfer window closing and Burleigh stepping down as interim sporting director and putting together the latest team administrator, we can get a glimpse of Burley's thinking from this list.

First, Burley is more focused on Chelsea's commercial operations than Abou, and on 18 June 2022, Burley took the lead in appointing Tom Glick as chief commercial officer before other roles at Chelsea were confirmed.

Chelsea's earliest appointed senior management

For most Chinese fans, Mr. Glick, who has long been working behind the scenes, is not very famous, but when it comes to his work experience, it can be regarded as a great achievement.

After Derby County were relegated from the Premier League in 2008 with a record-breaking 11 points and a goal difference of -69, Glick moved on to the stormy side as CEO, quickly stabilizing the team and helping them reach the last four of the League Cup for the first time in the second season.

In 2013, Emirates City Group poached Glick from Derby County as Manchester City's chief commercial officer, and for many years he worked at Manchester City, where he helped make it one of the top five money-making clubs in the world.

Glick explained his operating philosophy to the media

In 2018, Manchester City won the league title with an exaggerated 100 points, and Glick also gained attention from sports clubs around the world. The Carolina Panthers, an American NFL team, made a decisive move and poached Glick from Manchester City as COO.

And this time, Burleigh poached Glick back into the Premier League from the NFL, which is also clearly ambitious. In the position of chief commercial officer, there is almost no better figure in the world than Glick to match the Premier League giants, and in terms of the team's commercial operations, Burley has been in place in one step and equipped Chelsea with the top match in the opening game.

On the technical side, Burleigh has built a management team with Red Bull at its core

After signing Glick to take charge of commercial operations, Burleigh gradually refined the rest of the team's management in the following years, which were centered on Red Bull.

For example, Christopher Vivell, the new Chelsea technical director. The 36-year-old was previously RB Leipzig's chief scout, a well-known European football stat controller and a top expert in young player discovery.

Wavell joined Hoffenheim as a scout in 2010, but due to his high level and vision, he soon became an important scout at Hoffenheim. After that, Red Bull discovered his ability and recruited him to work as a recruitment director for Red Bull Salzburg in Austria.

During his time at Salzburg, Wavell first bought 16-year-old Adeyemi for $10 million, and the player made 94 appearances for Salzburg, scoring 33 goals.

He then discovered 17-year-old Norwegian youngster Haaland and bought him for just $8 million, while Haaland made 22 appearances and scored 28 goals in his first full season with Red Bull Salzburg. These two heavyweight signings made Wavell famous.

Wavell personally discovered Haaland and facilitated Haaland's move to Borussia Dortmund

Due to his success in Salzburg, Wavell was promoted to RB Leipzig in 2020. In Leipzig, Wavell directly led the introduction of players such as Sobosloy and Gvadior. Whether it is a striker, a midfielder, a defender, as a recruitment supervisor and chief scout, Wavell has a proud work.

After becoming famous in the battle of Haaland, Wavell, who was promoted to Leipzig, discovered Gervadior

The arrival of Vell at Chelsea this time shows how important Burley is to the future of the squad – and the signage of a senior executive known for scouting young players who are young themselves is clear.

More notably, since Emenalo's resignation in 2017, Abu has not appointed a technical director for five consecutive years, only mid-term appointment of Cech to a fictitious position called "technical adviser". Then the appointment of Wavell also shows the difference in thinking between Burleigh and Abu -

Burleigh believes in scientific football data.

Leipzig is known for its scientific player monitoring system

As a rising powerhouse in the five major leagues, Leipzig has always been known for its scientific player monitoring system. Red Bull has never been as superstitious as some teams are about retired football superstars, nor is it particular about "DNA", Red Bull believes in the changes that today's advanced science has brought to football.

As a result, Red Bull is willing to use so-called "academic" footballers from non-top players as executives and even coaches. Although these people do not have a brilliant record as players, they often have a higher level of cultural knowledge, higher scientific and technical ability and vision.

Red Bull is willing to boldly use academy coaches who don't have a career record

For example, when Rangnick from the academy was the director of Leipzig, he led Red Bull to build the earliest "multi-club model" global youth training system in the history of football, laying the foundation for Leipzig's brilliant present, and Nagelsmann, who was also sent by the academy, led Leipzig to achieve the best results in the league and the Champions League. Leipzig's staff has always been at the forefront of the digitalization and modernization of football.

This is also what Burleigh values - a digital, modern football model. This also makes Burleigh particularly attractive to Red Bull workers.

Red Bull is a football outlier that has risen to prominence in recent years

In addition to Wavell, another new Chelsea executive who has attracted a lot of attention is Laurence Stewart, who is in charge of the "global transfer market".

Stewart is Wavell's predecessor and used to be Red Bull's scouting manager, but Stewart is clearly more experienced and famous than the younger Wavell.

Unlike Wavell, who was born scouting, Stewart is a data analyst by training, and his job requires a more comprehensive perspective than scouts whose main job is to scout players.

Working in the UK made him famous, and in 2014 he joined the England national team as a data analyst. After the World Cup, the rising Manchester City quickly signed him to join Pellegrini's coaching staff.

Stewart

But it was during his time at Red Bull that he really showed his strength. After years as a data analyst in the Premier League, Red Bull hired him as Leipzig's scouting and transfer manager. During his work, he led the signing of players such as Cunha, Hwang Hee-chan, Nkunku, Taylor Adams, etc., and reaped huge profits for the team.

In 2020, Wavell took his place, and he was recruited by Monaco as technical director, then quickly dug Bordeaux's 20-year-old Joan Armeni, and dominated Joan Armeni's 80 million transfer to Real Madrid in the summer window of 2022, becoming the Monaco club's biggest financial income in the past four years.

Joan Armeni's transfer chain from Bordeaux to Monaco to Real Madrid was completed under Stewart's leadership

Chelsea's appointment of Stewart this time is precisely to put him in charge of the transfer job he does best. And he is equipped with a partner who is also a famous scout - Joe Shields, a famous youth scout who has helped Manchester City's youth team develop famous players such as Foden and Sancho.

In addition to these technical officials, Burley even wanted to directly poach Leipzig's CEO Mintzlav to Chelsea as CEO, but the poaching was unsuccessful.

Red Bull Leipzig's CEO Mintzlav was also on the Burleigh list, but it didn't happen

But in any case, the team that Burley has built today has built a management model with Red Bull personnel as the core, which shows that Burleigh has a long-term vision. The aforementioned technical director and two co-sporting directors who are in charge of the team's direct affairs are both specialized in tapping into young potential.

And in the two transfer windows, Burley's signings are also dominated by potential new stars: Maduekai, David Fofana, Badiasile, Chuk Umeka, Wesley Fofana, Mudric, Enzo, all seven new signings are under the age of 23, especially the transfer of the first four players, behind the obvious push of Wavell and Stewart.

This Chelsea team has a lot of potential

Burleigh is definitely not a foolish and rich master. Don't underestimate this team just because of Chelsea's poor record this season – it's no exaggeration to say that this young squad has great potential and will be a strong title rival for several seasons to come.

Burleigh Critique – His Misanalysis

It is undeniable that Burleigh's first season still has many mistakes, but many mistakes have to be made, we can analyze them.

Mistake 1: Summer Window with big money in the absence of technical directors and sports directors

This is Burleigh's mistake that has to be admitted. Chelsea's summer window signings, whether it's Sterling at 56 million, Aubameyang at $12 million, or Kucurella at $65 million, are a bad debt. Burleigh's lack of vision as interim sporting director.

However, the mistake of the summer window is not only the problem of Burleigh alone, but also three external factors that cannot be ignored have caused Burleigh's mistake.

Reason 1: Locker room turmoil caused by the team's change of owner

Fans who follow Chelsea will surely not forget the turmoil in the dressing room in the summer of 2022, starting with Romelu Lukaku, whose conflict with the club finally broke out in the summer after more than half a season of dullness. The club in chaos had to choose to send Romelu Lukaku back to Inter.

Second is Timo Werner, who, while not at odds with the club like Romelu Lukaku, would rather give up an $18 million salary to return to parent team Leipzig seems to suggest the restlessness and impatience in Chelsea's dressing room.

The most revealing of this unease is the one-year-long summer window between the old captain Azpilicueta and Barca.

Romelu Lukaku returned to Inter on loan

So, this delicate atmosphere is disturbing, and Burleigh will have to pay a lot of money anyway to prove that the team that has changed owners is still ambitious, and only then can the team stabilize the dressing room and the hearts of the fans.

Therefore, the lavish throwing of the summer window is necessary. For Burleigh, spending money is the most important thing, no matter where the money is spent, the money must be spent.

Abu is one of the Premier League's most successful owners

Reason two: Abu's success made Burleigh eager to prove himself

No one will deny that Abu is the most successful and greatest boss in Chelsea's history. Therefore, there is a lot of pressure on Burley, who succeeded Abou, who does not want to lose the confidence and support of his fans in the comparison, so he is eager to prove himself - I am no worse than Abou.

For him, the best way to prove himself is to spend money, so this also caused a series of recruitment mistakes in the Burleigh summer window.

The rush to prove himself led to Burleigh's "speed is not enough"

Reason three: A series of upheavals that have caused Chelsea to lose their attractiveness

Abou's departure and Burleigh's hasty arrival left doubts about the team's future, both inside and outside the team. So the team lost its appeal to some players.

Tuchel has drawn up a list of his hopes for Burleigh, with the names of Lewandowski, Matthijs de Ligt and Cond, a player who was hardly attractive to Chelsea in the summer window, even if Chelsea's rivals are Barca, who are also in turmoil. This has left Chelsea to blame for the signing, and even the 33-year-old Aubameyang, who has only played half a season on a free transfer, has to pay Barca a transfer fee of 12 million.

The decline in Chelsea's influence caused by Abou's departure can be felt from Aubeyang's transfer

Mistake Two: Giving the Wrong Patience – Tuchel and Porter's Trade-Off

Apart from the mistake in signing, Burley's second mistake was to give patience wrong – less patience for Tuchel and more patience for Porter.

Some people think that Burley sacked Tuchel to clean up Abou's power, but this statement is inaccurate, because before the season, Burley did give Tuchel great signing.

In an interview with the Daily Mail, Tuchel said that the target he offered to Burleigh was actually a bit unrealistic, but Burleigh still tried to buy people as he asked. At the time of the interview, Burley had spent just $167 million for Tuchel, and then added another $100 million.

However, the excessive rush made Burley nervous after seeing Tuchel unable to beat Dinamo Zagreb. In addition, Porter, who led Brighton to extremely good results at the beginning of the season, aroused Burley's interest, and eventually Burley gave up patience with Tuchel.

Potter suddenly took the throne

Burleigh is so anxious that it can be said that Burleigh started the season hoping to compete for the title. Therefore, when the Champions League started, Arsenal and Manchester City were in hot form, and Manchester United also came up with four consecutive wins after a bad start, but Chelsea could only finish fourth. So he eagerly sacked Tuchel.

But if it comes to competing for the title, then Burley's choice of Porter is a faint move. Not to mention the Premier League title, Porter has not even won the Championship. It is difficult for a coach without perennial experience to lead a good team, not everyone is Zidane, Pirlo is not, Frank Lampard is not, and Porter is not.

Burleigh wants Porter to be Arteta

Burleigh's choice of Potter was a mistake, and it was even more wrong to give Potter so much time. Burley may want to learn from Arsenal's younger Kroenke and give Porter enough patience, anyway, there are many young players in the team, enough for Porter to grind in a few years.

The problem is that Burleigh is willing to be Kroenke Jr., but Potter is definitely not Arteta.

Arteta itself is Arsenal's name and can be more tolerated by fans, and before Arteta came to Arsenal, Arsenal had already experienced a chaotic period after Arsene Wenger, Emery, Ljungberg and many other coaches, so Arteta itself also lacked pressure.

But Porter is different, he is not a Chelsea legend, and secondly, shortly after his previous Champions League triumph, he cannot be tolerated like Arteta.

The former "vegetable tower" also had a low point at Arsenal, but the patience of Arsenal's top management has forged success this season

In addition, Burleigh's American sports thinking also caused him to reuse Porter.

In the United States, almost all major tournaments are league rather than league. Neither NBA, NFL, NHL, MLB nor MLB has a promotion system, which has its inherent advantages, but also has a major disadvantage. That is, once a sports club in the United States finds itself unable to compete for the championship, its aggressiveness will decline.

Burleigh's operation has the shadow of American thinking. By the time the World Cup cycle is over, Chelsea have largely lost their chance to compete for the title, but are unlikely to be relegated. So Burleigh doesn't have too much to pursue results (of course, Porter's Champions League record is reasonable). So it also made Burleigh willing to give Porter a lot of patience.

Porter eventually left class

If Burley is willing to share some of his patience with Porter on Tuchel, perhaps Chelsea can at least guarantee a European game next season.

Providence is unwilling: unlucky

Burley made these two fatal mistakes that directly wiped out Chelsea's record this season. But Burleigh's bad luck also made the team worse.

To completely solve Chelsea's long-standing backline problems.

Burleigh signed rising star Wesley Fofana for £80.4 million each in the summer window. However, just after playing a few games, Wesley Fofana suffered a knee injury, missed 71 days, and then suffered a second injury, missing 55 days, and only made a complete comeback in February 2023. This is also bad luck enough.

As the king of the summer window, Fofana was seriously injured after not playing a few games

There is more than one bad luck. New signing Koulibaly, who came with Fofana, received a red card after playing three games. Summer window signing Felix was suspended for scoring a goal. The long-injured Fofana has recovered, and his defensive partners Thiago Silva and Cesar Azpilicueta have been injured one after another...

There are some things that are not human.

Chelsea's future forecasts

A lot of people are worried about Chelsea, but we can still believe Chelsea can bounce back strongly next season. Because Chelsea have a rich squad, there are experienced veterans and young players with full potential. In the summer window of this season, Burleigh will most likely continue to pay a lot of money to buy people. Chelsea lacked only one thing – a coach who could put these players together.

Frank Lampard has led Chelsea to miracles

The appointment of Frank Lampard as interim manager until the end of the season suggests Burley intends to give himself three months to carefully consider the choice of official manager.

Chances are that Chelsea will no longer be able to appoint a coach like Porter who has no experience in coaching at the big clubs. Talented managers who are likely to coach Chelsea at the moment are Antonio Conte, Luis Enrique, Nagelsmann, Pochettino and others. Many of them did have affair with Chelsea.

Nagelsmann is actually a better fit for Chelsea

Of these people, the most suitable coach for Chelsea is Nagelsmann. Burley, the new owner, must maintain his image in the eyes of fans, so Pochettino, who has been in charge of Tottenham Hotspur for many years, is hardly considered.

And Conte, who dares to attack the club indiscriminately at the press conference, is even more difficult to be liked by a strong boss like Burley. The same is true of Enrique, who has a strong personality and needs extreme power.

Conte attacked Tottenham at the press conference, perhaps making Burleigh afraid to use him

Nagelsmann has several advantages over other coaches:

Nagelsmann is very young, and in terms of player management, as a peer of the players (he is even three years younger than Thiago Silva), he is more empathetic to the ideas of the players.

At the same time, tactically, Nagelsmann, as an excellent representative of the younger generation of coaches, is extremely innovative and can keep up with the current tactical changes in mainstream football.

Nagelsmann was tactically innovative and not conservative

Burleigh has embraced Red Bull's "multi-club model" and has brought in a number of Red Bull executives. And Nagelsmann himself is a typical Red Bull coach and knows the inner workings of Red Bull clubs.

Chelsea's executives were also acquaintances and had worked with each other for many years. Sporting Director Stewart, who was in charge of the transfer, was Nagelsmann's first technical director at Leipzig and was one of the Bole'lè who discovered Nagelsmann. As early as Nagelsmann's coaching of Hoffenheim, Wavell was Nagelsmann's scout, and later continued to work with Nagelsmann after coming to Leipzig, and was the hero behind Nagelsmann's entry into the semifinals of the Champions League and the runners-up of the league. Of course, they're all Red Bull.

Nagelsmann is familiar with Burley's Red Bull model and has a long-standing relationship with Burley's Chelsea management

Nagelsmann is good at using young players. This may not have been evident when Nagelsmann was in charge of Bayern, but when Nagelsmann was in charge of Hoffenheim and RB Leipzig, the youngsters in the team were able to play well. These two teams are also typical "sell-out" teams that rely on the storm of youth, and Nagelsmann has never had a losing season with such a team.

As a typical German academy coach, Nagelsmann has close ties with predecessors such as Tuchel and Rangnick. These three men, plus Klopp, Frick, and even Benfica's Schmidt and world champion coach Löw all come from the same school - the "Heinsweissweiler Academy" jointly organized by the German Football Association and the Cologne Sports Academy.

Nagelsmann went out with Frick, Jurgen Klopp, Loew and Thomas Tuchel

Nagelsmann went to the school with a referral from Rangnick and Tuchel.

When Tuchel was at Augsburg, Nagelsmann was his scout, while Rangnick followed Nagelsmann when he was at Hoffenheim.

Nagelsmann graduated in 2016 with the second highest score in the school, only two years older than Tedesko, who is now coached of the Belgian national team. Lang, Na and T also share the coaching experience of Hoffenheim and RB Leipzig.

Tedesko and Nagelsmann finished first and second in school, but Tedesko never hid his praise for Nagelsmann in front of the media

Therefore, Nagelsmann was able to fully exploit his off-field value with such close contact with the German young coaches. And it means that Nagelsmann can bring a long-term and proven model of successful long-term tactical change.

The above five reasons are enough to show that Nagelsmann is the most suitable coach for Burley's long-term plan at this stage, not to mention, whether it is at Hoffenheim or Leipzig or Bayern, Nagelsmann is not a strong coach who will put pressure on the top.

If he can prove himself in terms of results, Lampard may also be an option

So, with the assurance that they can compete with other clubs that want Nagelsmann, signing Nagelsmann as soon as possible could be the key to Chelsea's game-breaking next season. Of course, if Frank Lampard can produce excellent results during his interim managerial period, Burley may also choose to gamble and get Frank Lampard on target next season.

After all, judging from the patience Burley gave Potter, Burleigh still wanted to have an Arteta slowly nurturing DNA coach.

However, given Frank Lampard's first game against Wolves, this is highly unlikely.

Full summary

From all the evidence, Burley has a long-term plan for Chelsea, Blues fans need not worry that Burley is a quick money maker, and Burley will certainly have a high investment in the coming seasons.

The current Chelsea senior management is very professional, which can also reflect Burley's operational thinking of "reviving the business" and the tactical idea of "rekindling the storm of youth", and it can also be seen that Burley likes the Red Bull model very much. In terms of the composition of management personnel, everything related to team operations, Bo uses all Manchester City departments, and everything related to player management, Bo uses Red Bull departments. The key to whether Chelsea can turn things around is Burley's willingness to delegate more power to these senior management, slowly retreating into the background.

For now, Nagelsmann is the best choice for Chelsea's official manager. But if Lampard can produce results worthy of Burley's trust, there is still the possibility of turning Lampard positive. However, Frank Lampard can't get a point on Wolves, and Chelsea will have to face Real Madrid, Arsenal, Manchester United, Manchester City, Newcastle and other tough stubbles in the future schedule, it can be said that Lampard cannot turn right. Then Nagelsmann also became the best choice.

From the top composition, we can see that Burley wants Chelsea to be a combination of Manchester City and Red Bull

4. Chelsea fans would do well to give Burleigh some patience. It is difficult for Burley to be a good boss like Abu, but in any case, Burleigh can never be a bad boss. He is a good boss who is still figuring out and is not good enough.

It was Burleigh, not Glazer, not Kroenck, not Fenway Group, not Redbird Capital who took over Chelsea after Abou left, and in a way, it was lucky for Chelsea fans.