Joe Shields

There will be freaking, you know, probably primarily Wynn Stanley and stuff.

And I don't know how much Joe Shields does in negotiations.

I think it will be Wynn Stanley, Bedadig Barley, and Xabi Alonso trying to get this done.

Those three.

Obviously, Laurence Stanley i- i- is moving on.

Joe Shields, um, moving up to work towards Sporting Director, so interesting off the field.

I, I think Chelsea, this defense, Craig, I think that-

Laurence Stewart

But yeah, I mean, I guess we just talk about from the future and what I know will be happening going further forward.

Joe Shields and Sam Jewell, obviously two of the other sporting directors, have been now given more power and responsibility in terms of squad building, in terms of player recruitment, while Paul Wynn-Stanley will be doing contract side of things he'll be doing transfer negotiations also some stuff to do like the medical department overseeing that type of thing but yeah I mean when you're talking about I guess because mainly fans will want to know who's doing our transfers who do we need to blame when stuff goes wrong from what I know it'll be Joe Shields and Sam Joel they've been given the more responsibility and power in terms of squad building.

Not Winstanley? No, not Winstanley.

No, he's going to be more transfer, like negotiation side of things, not identifying players.

That will be more Sam Jewell, Joe Shields and obviously Jaby Alonso, I guess.

Yeah.

And I mean, we had, I'm not saying disagreement is the wrong word, but a slight, I guess, different assessment maybe potentially from what this not necessarily means, but slightly maybe, because one of the things that was said that Laurence Stewart was doing was, I can't remember if you said it now, but essentially being in charge of the direction of of play style that the club is taking and I think even if he is not or was not the individual choosing the transfer targets being the individual to choose the play style direction the play style that as a club you are deciding to go down will of course in my opinion quite dramatically impact the types of players you're going to try to sign the types of players you're going to make your transfer targets and I think taking a person that made those decisions out of it without replacing them even if other people are getting slightly more responsibilities I think this also puts more of that to the manager in my opinion because it never or what it says is that Stewart and Javier Alonso had slightly different views and therefore that wouldn't have worked long term if it's still that guy you know choosing the long term kind of direction of play um while the manager is maybe trying to look at something different.

We have to go off basically just what's said.

Obviously, Laurence Stanley is moving on.

Joe Shields moving up to work towards a smart indictment.

Also interesting off the field.

I think Chelsea, this defence...

Hopefully.

Uh, Winstanley's role has somewhat changed into more transfer negotiations, uh, contracts, and player liaison, along with Joe Shields, and he'll be responsible for getting transfer deals over the line.

Joe Shields getting on the blower, on the phone to, uh, any man who's played for Manchester City at some point.

And maybe due to what's happening at the moment, players that are currently playing for Man City.

Elliot Anderson, we could do with you.

Not necessarily a shock that Laurence Stewart is leaving, just because I think having conversations around Chelsea over the last year or two, yes, a lot has been made of the five sporting directors, as it was, but The ones that you would generally hear about when you were talking to people around Chelsea would be Paul Winstanley, who has always been the sporting director that has the most to do with transfer and contract negotiations.

And Joe Shields, who of course has his fingerprints on a lot of the club's recruitment and is in charge of player and academy pathways.

And Sam Jewell is also involved as more of a background figure on the recruitment side as well.

So Stewart, I think, was...